Cinzia Forte - Donna Fiorilla

Lyric coloratura soprano, Cinzia Forte is praised by international critics for the uncommon elegance of her phrasing and remarkable stage presence. Mrs. Forte is present on the billboards of the main Italian and European theaters such as the Teatro alla Scala, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Regio in Turin, Opera in Rome, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Zurich Opera House, Théâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Teatro Real in Madrid. Cinzia Forte has lately added important roles to her repertoire: Contessa d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (Liège), Anna Bolena (title role, in Trieste), Desdemona in Otello (Pisa and Cagliari), Madama Butterly (title role, Sassari and Cosenza).

Plans include : Orfeo ed Euridice in Trieste and Naples, where she will return singing La Traviata; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Monte- Carlo with the Orchestre Philarmonique on tour in Bratislava and Budapest; Otello in Liège.

Giulio Mastrototaro – Don Geronio

Among his past engagements, it is worth mentioning: L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Iphigénie en Aulide with Riccardo Muti at the Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome, Il Turco in Italia in Leipzig and Vicenza, La Cenerentola and L’italiana in Algeri in Avignon and Reims, La Gazza Ladra, La Gazzetta, in Wildbad, Le Nozze di Figaro in Potsdam, La Bohème, Così Fan Tutte and Don Checco at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Gianni Schicchi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Mr. Mastrototaro lately sang La Cenerentola in Massy, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro in Frankfurt, Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Trento, L’Elisir d’Amore in Florence, La Cenerentola and La Traviata in Vienna, L’italiana in Algeri in Valencia.

Plans include: L’Inganno Felice at the Rossini Opera Festival and L’Italiana in Algeri in Massy.

Lorenzo Regazzo - Prosdocimo

Being a renowned interpreter of Mozart and Rossini, acclaimed in the Bel Canto and Coloratura repertoire, Lorenzo Regazzo has been a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. He collaborated with such important conductors as Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Colin Davis, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Nikolaus Harnonkourt, Jesús López-Cobos and Marcello Viotti. Lorenzo Regazzo is also a world class Baroque singer, a repertoire he has performed and recorded with such Baroque music specialists as René Jacobs, Emmanuelle Haïm, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Claudio Scimone, and Andrea Marcon.

Plans include: L’Italiana in Algeri in Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées); Don Giovanni (Leporello) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; Don Pasquale (title role) in Barcelona and Las Palmas; La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) with the Bayerische Staatsoper on tour in Oman.

Francesco Ommassini - conductor

Francesco Ommassini was appointed musical director of the Orchestra Regionale del Veneto Filarmonia Veneta. He did his debut in 2009 with two new production of Traviata and Barbiere di Siviglia with the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta. Afterwards the successful performance of the Coronation Mass by Mozart at Teatro Fraschini in Pavia and a concert with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra led to the invitation to conduct during the further season. M° Ommassini opened the 2011 edition of the Verona Contemporanea Festival at the Teatro Filarmonico with the Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona. In September he conducted the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano; more recently he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Novara, Rigoletto and La Sonnambula at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso.

Plans include: La Sonnambula in Ravenna and Ferrara and a series of concerts at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.