Riccardo Zanellato - bass

Riccardo Zanellato’s career has led him to become one of the reference artists for the most important bass roles. Regularly invited by Riccardo Muti for many productions at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (among others, Iphigénie en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth, Nabucco,  Simon Boccanegra), he collaborates with such institutions as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Verdi Festival in Parma, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Liceu in Barcelona, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Mr. Zanellato recently sang Verdi’s Requiem in Naples under the baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, in Portorico, in Cagliari, in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival on tour with the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, in Barcelona, in Cincinnati and in St. Louis. Mr. Zanellato lately starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro alla Scala, Poliuto and La Bohème at the Opernhaus in Zurich andMacbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco in Macbeth for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season of the Comunale in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then performed La Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and Nabucco in Florence, Stuttgart and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato sang Schubert’s Mass in A flat for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem at the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti. He starred as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna, Muti conducting. At the Opera di Firenze he just sang Giorgio in Bellini’s I Puritani.

Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in Stuttgart; Simon Boccanegra in Dresden; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore  at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Macbeth at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Mr. Zanellato will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker.