Mario Cassi - Belcore

Already well-established as one of the most appreciated baritones of his generation, Mr. Cassi regularly collaborates with conductors as Riccardo Muti, Bruno Campanella, Roberto Abbado, in the most prestigious theaters in Italy and abroad.

Mr. Cassi recently reported a great success as Dottor Malatesta in Don Pasquale for the season’s opening night at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Antonio Albanese directing, as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Naples, Florence and Tel Aviv, as Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore at the Staatsoper in Vienna and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Silvio in Pagliacci in Toulouse, as Danilo in The Merry Widow at the Teatro Regio in Turin, in Carmina Burana in Parma, Piacenza and Modena, in Madama Butterfly in Bari. Mario Cassi starred as Don Alvaro in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam, Stefano Montanari conducting and Damiano Michieletto directing.

Plans: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) in Monte Carlo and at the Arena in Verona; Don Pasquale in Naples and Vienna; L’Elisir d’amore (Belcore) at the Opéra in Paris; Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), La Traviata, Don Giovanni (title role) in Liège.

Asher Fisch – conductor

Praised by critics as one the finest interpreters of our time, Asher Fisch has brought his extensive repertoire in the greatest theaters in the world covering the position of Music Director at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and at the Volksoper in Vienna. Among the orchestras he conducted: the Chicago Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Israel Philharmonic, the Tokyo's NHK and many others.

Plans include: Elektra, Carmen and a series of concerts at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Falstaff, La Forza del Destino, Elektra, Werther, Die Zauberflöte, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Der Fliegende Hollander and Don Carlos; Der Wildschutz in Dresden and Un Ballo in Maschera in Hamburg.