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Sebastiano Rolli - conductor
After his studies at the conservatoires in Parma and Milan, Sebastiano Rolli started
to collaborate with important orchestras and ensembles, such as: Orchestra Sinfonica
Giuseppe Verdi in Parma, Orchestra Stabile dell’Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini,
Orchestra Sinfonica in Sanremo, Orchestra Gianandrea Gavazzeni in Brescia, Orchestra
Gioacchino Rossini in Pesaro. Among his past engagements, it is worth mentioning: Macbeth at
the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava; Maria Stuarda at the Teatro
Sociale in Rovigo and Bergamo, where he also opened 2013-2014 season conducting Maria
di Rudenz and where he returned conducting Torquato Tasso; Falstaff at
the Teatro Verdi in Busseto and Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Filarmonico
in Verona with Mariella Devia. He recently conducted: Bel Canto concerts with Mariella
Devia in Genoa and with Juan Diego Florez in Dublin, I Puritani at
the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava and Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica
in Tirana.
Active also on the concert side, Sebastiano Rolli can boast a vast repertoire that
includes works by Bach, Pergolesi, Händel, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Mozart,
Haydn, Britten, Ravel, Dvorák, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel, Gershwin, just to name
a few.
Future plans include: Anna Bolena in Tenerife
and Norma in Verona (both with Mariella Devia) and a series of concerts at
the International Music Festival in Brno.
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Angela Nisi – soprano (Fauré’s Requiem and Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri)
Born in Brindisi, Angela Nisi made her debut as Micaëla in Carmen in
Bassano del Grappa in 2010. She then performed Valtinoni’s Pinocchio at
the Teatro Regio in Turin, Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia) and Don
Giovanni (Donna Anna) at the Bassano del Grappa Festival. In 2013 she
sang: Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Massimo Bellini
in Catania; Violetta in La Traviata at the Varna Summer Festival;
Giulietta in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at the Reate Festival and
she appeared in Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples. Angela Nisi recently sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at
the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome with Antonio Pappano; Don Giovanni (Donna
Anna) in Bangkok; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Clorinda) in Rome;
Carmen (Micaëla) at the Cortona Mix Festival and in Florence with the
Orchestra della Toscana.
Plans include: La Traviata in Essen and in Toulon; Rota’s
Mysterium at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Tutino’s Le Braci in
Martina Franca (world première) in a new production by Gabriele Lavia and then at
the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Teatro alla Pergola) in Florence; Valtinoni’s Pinocchio
in Bassano del Grappa; a series of concerts in São Paulo.
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Sergio Vitale – baritone (Fauré’s Requiem)
Recipient of various awards, Sergio Vitale made his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival
in Pesaro singing Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims. During the 2010/2011
season Mr. Vitale was member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. More recently
he performed in Rigoletto at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
in Valencia; Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Falstaff
(title role) at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano. He took part in a Japanese
tour with the Teatro alla Scala, singing Marullo in Rigoletto, then
he sang Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia in Trento, at
the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and in San Sebastian; he then sang Licinio in Aureliano
in Palmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Gianni Schicchi
in Spoleto; Madama Butterfly in Fidenza; Rigoletto (Marullo) at the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Among his future plans, it is worth mentioning: La Gazzetta at
the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and La Bohème for the AsLiCo circuit
(Brescia, Cremona, Reggio Emilia, Como and Pavia).
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