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Veronica Cangemi - Editta
Born in Mendoza (Argentina), Veronica Cangemi is one of the most versatile sopranos
on the music scene today. Much in demand in both the baroque and classical repertoire,
she performed in operas by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck
and Haydn. She regularly collaborated with conductors as Claudio Abbado, Giovanni
Antonini, Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Andreas
Spering, Adam Fischer, Marek Janowski.
Among her recent engagements: Handel’s Orlando (Dorinda) with Jean-Christophe
Spinosi in Toulouse, Versailles and Rennes; Carmen (Micaëla) at
the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London under Daniel Oren; Idomeneo (Ilia)
at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; several concerts throughout Europe, including
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the
Plans include: Mozart’s Great Mass in C-Minor with Giardino Armonico
and Giovanni Antonini at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival; a baroque concert with
Il Pomo D’oro and Riccardo Minasi in Bremen; Nedda in Pagliacci and Morgana
in Alcina in Dresden; Serse(Atalanta) with Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe
Spinosi in Budapest and Barcelona; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Instanbul
and Budapest.
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Francesca Aspromonte - Nobiltà
Born in 1991, Francesca Aspromonte is rapidly establishing herself as one of the
most interesting young sopranos for the baroque and classical repertoire. After
her studies in piano and harpsichord, she entered the singing class of Maria Pia
Piscitelli. She attended several master classes with Barbara Bonney, Luciana Serra,
Victor Torrez, Gloria Banditelli and she has just completed her studies at the Mozarteum
in Salzburg under the guidance of Boris Bakow. Since 2012 she is a student of Renata
Scotto’s Opera Studio at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Recently
she starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Musica, Speranza and Messaggiera)
and Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir on tour
in the United States (New York-Carnegie Hall, San Francisco, Washington, Costa Mesa,
Chapel Hill) and at the BBC Proms in London. Under John Eliot Gardiner, she also
starred in a Monteverdi program at Wigmore Hall in London and in Versailles. Among
her other recent engagements: the modern premiere of Cavalli’s L’Eritrea and
Caldara’s Dafne (role title) in Venice under Stefano Montanari
in Venice; “Amore Siciliano” at the Musikfest Bremen and at the Festival d’Ambronay
with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón; Mozart’s La Betulia
Liberata (Amital) in Merano and Brixen with Daniel Bayer and the Streicherakademie
Bozen; concerts at the Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini with Stefano Demicheli;
Scarlatti’s La Giuditta (title role) at the Accademia Filarmonica
Romana and Pasquini’s La Gloria di Primavera at the Konzerthaus
in Vienna, both with Concerto Romano and Alessandro Quarta; L’isola disabitata by
David Perez in Lisbon with Divino Sospiro. She participated in the first and second
edition of the Accademia Monteverdiana directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Plans include: a new production of Rossi’s L’Orfeo (Euridice)
with Raphaël Pichon at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and on tour in France;
“Amore Siciliano” with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón in Brugge;
revivals of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespro della Beata Vergine
with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in Versailles; Monteverdi’s Vespro
della Beata Vergine with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks in Dresden
and Prague; concerts and recording of a Haydn program with Il Giardino Armonico
and Giovanni Antonini; Cavalli’s Oristeo at the Théâtre National
de la Criée in Marseille; concerts with the Geneva Camerata and David Greilsammer
in Venice and Geneva.
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