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Virginia Tola - Floria Tosca (March 6th, 8th, 11th)
Winner of the Operalia Prize in Barcelona, Mrs. Tola began a career that brought
her to important theaters such as: Colòn in Buenos Aires, Palau de les Arts
Reina Sofia in Valencia, Teatro Real in Madrid, Washington National Opera, Opéra
in Monte Carlo, Arena in Verona, La Monnaie in Brussels, Los Angeles Opéra,
Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Regio in Turin and the opera houses in Klagenfurt, La
Plata and Santa Fe. After her
successes as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Contessa d’Almaviva in Le Nozze
di Figaro, Violetta in Traviata, Desdemona in Otello, Luisa
Miller (title role) and Mimì in La Bohème, she has recently
added new roles to her repertoire, singing Lina in Stiffelio, Abigaille
in Nabucco, Nedda in Pagliacci, Amelia in Un ballo in Maschera.
Mrs. Tola sang Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Regio in
Parma, at the Colon in Buenos Aires, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo,
Desdemona in Otello in Modena and Piacenza and Lina in Stiffelio in
Monte-Carlo; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Oviedo; Falstaff in
Sao Paulo.
Besides her opera appearances. Mrs. Tola usually performs in concerts all over
the world: she recently appeared in recital besides Placido Domingo in Japan.
Mrs. Tola’s discography includes Ginastera’s Don Rodrigo and Milena and
Bacalov’s Triple Concerto for Delos International. Virginia Tola recently
gained great success singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino at the
Teatro Regio in Parma and as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the
Comunale in Bologna, Vick directing and Mariotti conducting, she also sang Ernani at the Opera in
Florence.
Among her future plans it is worth mentioning Un ballo in
Maschera at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; I Due Foscari in
Marseille; Nabucco at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Don Carlo in
Madrid and at the Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo.
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Aquiles Machado - Mario Caravadossi (March 4th,
8th, 11th)
After his
successes gained in I Masnadieri in Naples, La Gioconda in Palermo
and Rome, La Forza del Destino at the Festival Verdi in Parma, Ernani in
Bilbao, Un Ballo in Maschera in Liège and Simon Boccanegra in
Berlin, Aquiles Machado returns to sing Puccini’s masterpice. Among his recent
engagements, it is worth mentioning: Cavaradossi in Tosca in Leipzig, as
well as at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and
Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); Carmen and Un Ballo in Maschera in Las
Palmas; Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra in Zurich; Alfredo in La
Traviata in Florence; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Torre
del Lago and Vienna; Rodolfo in La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly
conducting; Norma at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Il Trovatore at
the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; La Traviata at the Teatro
Campoamor in Oviedo and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia under
Zubin Mehta; Roméo et Juliette in Liège; Don José in Carmen in
Bilbao; I Due Foscari in Toulouse; La Bohème at the Terme in
Caracalla (Rome) and in Dresden; Cavalleria Rusticana in Pamplona;
Madama Butterfly and Carmen in St.Petersburg; Tosca in
Cagliari under Gianluigi Gelmetti; Don Carlo and La Traviata at
the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Aquiles Machado performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna then on tour in
Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti, in Cincinnati and
St. Louis under Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, at the Gewandhaus Leipzig under
Anthony Bramall.
Future plans: La
Traviata in Florence, Zubin Mehta conducting
; Carmen in Minorca; Faust, Simon Boccanegra, Werther,
Don Carlo in Las Palmas; La Bohème in Liège; Un Ballo in
Maschera in Tel Aviv again under Zubin
Mehta.
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Teatro dell’Opera
Rome
March 4th
March 6th
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March 11th
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