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Silvia Frigato - Yniold
Winner of the “Francesco Provenzale” International Baroque singing competition in
Naples (2007), she furthers her studies under the guidance of Sara Mingardo. She
regularly performs at numerous prestigious concert venues and festivals, including:
Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan, Centro
di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini in Naples, Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina
Franca, Misteria Paschalia in Krakow, Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, to
name only a few. Ms. Frigato regularly collaborates with such artists as Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Gianluca Capuano, Claudio Cavina, Ottavio Dantone, Antonio
Florio, John Eliot Gardiner, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken,
Stefano Montanari, Federico Maria Sardelli. Silvia Frigato recently starred in Monteverdi’s
Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner,
in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Rinaldo
Alessandrini and in Jommelli’s L’Isola Disabitata at the Teatro San Carlo
in Naples. She returns to the Maggio Musicale after her successful debut in Gluck’s
Orfeo ed Euridice last year.
Future plans: a concert tour in Germany with La Risonanza and Fabio Bonizzoni;
a solo concert at the Trigonale Festival in Austria; a concert with music by Anton
Webern at the Bologna Festival; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with
the Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks in Prague and Dresden; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
with Sara Mingardo under Rinaldo Alessandrini in Rome at the Accademia Filarmonica
Romana and in Zamora; a revival of the Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro
alla Scala. She will take part in the Accademia Monteverdiana under John Eliot Gardiner
for the second consecutive year.
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Daniele Abbado – director
Daniele Abbado studied at the School of Dramatic Arts of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano
and graduated in philosophy. He began his career as a theatre director in 1988,
extending progressively his interest in stage dramaturgy, TV direction, multimedia
shows and lyric opera productions. He invested the opera repertoire through the
stagings of different masterpieces by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Boito, Puccini,
Weber, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, being at the same time often involved with the
20th century authors such as A. Berg, K. Weill, M. Ravel, I. Stravinskij, A. Honegger,
B. Britten, L. Dalla Piccola. His stagings of Il prigioniero and Il volo di
notte by Dalla Piccola, produced by Maggio Musicale (Florence) were awarded
the Premio Abbiati as best Italian performance in 2004.
Abbado’s research and work strand was ideally carried on through his intense collaborations
with contemporary composers such as Giorgio Battistelli, Luciano Berio, Helmut Oehring.
Alberto Colla, Hans Werner Henze, Nicola Sani, Fabio Vacchi, and Shigeaki Saegusa.
In 2012 he received the Premio Oscar della Lirica for Best Director.
Daniele Abbado was Artistic Director of Teatro “R. Valli” in Reggio Emilia (2002-2012).
Future projects include: Nabucco at the Teatre Liceu, Royal Opera
House in London and Lyric Opera Chicago, Attila at the Teatro Comunale di
Bologna, Tosca and Falstaff at the Teatro Regio di Torino,
Il Trovatore at the Staatsoper Wien, and Pélleas et Mélisande at the
Teatro Regio in Turin.
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Gianni Carluccio - set and lighting designer
Gianni Carluccio graduated in 1981 in Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Milan. He began to work as set and costume designer in 1983.
As designer he worked with directors such as Roberto Andò, Daniele Abbado, Walter
Pagliaro and Moni Ovadia in the most important theaters in Italy such as Piccolo
Teatro of Milan, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino and many others.
To his vast experience one can include productions such as: Wozzeck by Alban
Berg performed for the opening of the new Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome;
doublebill Il Prigioniero and Volo di notte by Luigi Dallapiccola,
production that has won the prestigious Premio Abbiati in 2004.
In 2013 he begun his collaboration with the director Marco Bellocchio designing
stage and lighting in Uncle Vanja and Pagliacci. International experiences
include the world premiere of Jr. Butterfly by S. Saegusa at the Bunka Kaykan
Theater in Tokyo, and Così fan tutte at the Opera House of St. Paul, Minnesota,
both with director Daniele Abbado.
He presented exhibitions and events and he also collaborated on the installation
of Peter Greenaway and Robert Wilson in Milan and Lille. He also works regularly
as Production Designer in Cinema.
Future projects include : Akhnaten at the MiTo Festival; Die Zauberflöte
at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Attila at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna;
Pélleas et Mélisande at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
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