Luca Dall’Amico - Don Giovanni

Among the most interesting singers of the new generation, bass Luca Dall’Amico was chosen by Riccardo Muti for the role of Agamemnon in Iphigénie en Aulide at the Opera in Rome. Right after he made his debut at La Scala in Milan in Assassinio nella Cattedrale by Pizzetti. Luca Dall’Amico regularly worked with conductors as Riccardo Muti, James Conlon, Bruno Bartoletti, Corrado Rovaris, Gianluigi Gelmetti. Particularly appreciated for his remarkable stage presence, Luca Dall’Amico performed in Macbeth, Nabucco under the baton of Riccardo Muti in Rome; Le Nozze di Figaro in Ancona; Barbiere di Siviglia, La Traviata, Rigoletto, La Bohème, L’Africaine, La Clemenza di Tito in Venice; Madama Butterfly and Tosca in Torre del Lago; Petite Messe Solennelle in Rome.

Luca Dall’Amico starred in concert at the Ravenna Festival, Riccardo Muti conducting, and again with Muti in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Recent engagements include I Capuleti e i Montecchi, La Clemenza di Tito, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Simon Boccanegra in Venice; Les Pécheures des Perles at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Aida in St. Margarethen and Rome; Il Campiello in Florence; La Cenerentola in Lisboa; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Florence; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Liverpool. Luca Dall'Amico was on tour in Japan with the Teatro dell'Opera in Roma, singing in Simon Boccanegra and Nabucco.

Future plans include :Il barbiere di Siviglia in Fermo; Lucia di Lammermoor in Parma; Falstaff in Chicago; Macbeth in Ravenna, Turandot in Liège.

Davide Giusti - Don Ottavio

Young and promising tenor, Davide Giusti attended the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is a recipient of important awards, including Belli in Spoleto, Tebaldi in San Marino, Caniglia in Sulmona and Santa Chiara in Naples. lang="EN-US" He made his debut as Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome; Kent Nagano conducted him in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Reate Festival, then he obtained a great success performing Rossini’s Stabat Mater under Gianluigi Gelmetti. Mr. Giusti sang La Traviata (Alfredo) for the AsLiCo circuit in Italy, Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio) at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, L’elisir d’amore in Chieti, Osnabrück and Ancona. Davide Giusti starred in Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue in Ancona and Cagliari, then La Traviata in Lecce, Brindisi, Darmstadt and in Piacenza, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti directing, I Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro Regio in Parma, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Tebaldo) at the Reate Festival under Fabio Biondi (also recorded in CD by Glossa), Nicolai’s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Fenton) and Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore in Liège (under Bruno Campanella); La Bohème (Rodolfo) in Reims; Tutino’s Le Braci at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca. On the concert side, he sang recital in Monte Carlo and in Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony in Mannheim, Munich and Nuremberg. Future plans include : a revival of Le Braci at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; La Traviata in Liège and Charleroi and in Finland with the Oulu Sinfonie Orchester; I Capuleti e I Montecchi in Warsaw under the baton of Fabio Biondi.

Federico Benetti - Commendatore

After attending the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome with Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi and Cesare Scarton, he made his debut in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona in Terni, in Mozart’s Bastiano and Bastiana and in Don Giovanni (Masetto) on tour in Italy; he then performed in Traviata in Teramo, Ravenna and Messina; La Bohème in Florence; Strauss’ Rosenkavalier in Rome; Rigoletto and The merry widow in Genoa; La fanciulla del west in Torre del Lago; Strauss’ Salome, Gianni Schicchi, Carmen and Anna Bolena opposite Mariella Devia in Trieste, while in Milan he sang La battaglia di Legnano and The Merry Widow. He then performed in Carrara’s La piccola vendetta lombarda at the Accademia in Santa Cecilia in Rome, then on tour in Jesi; Gianni Schicchi in Viterbo, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and at the Reate Festival in Rieti; Rigoletto in Chieti, in Clermont Ferrand and on tour in France. Mr. Benetti recorded Pergolesi’s La serva padrona for Tactus; he made his debut as Enrico VIII in Anna Bolena under the baton of Fabio Biondi at the Reate Festival in Rieti and then as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte in Chieti; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania under the baton of Xu Zhong in Siracusa; Simon Boccanegra in Toulon; Madama Butterfly at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome. Plans include Tosca and Traviata in Toulon; Barbiere di Siviglia in Clermont Ferrand and on tour in France.

Francesco Ommassini - conductor

Francesco Ommassini was appointed musical director of the Orchestra Regionale del Veneto Filarmonia Veneta. He did his debut in 2009 with two new productions of Traviata and Barbiere di Siviglia with the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta. Afterwards the successful performance of the Coronation Mass by Mozart at Teatro Fraschini in Pavia and a concert with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra led to the invitation to conduct during the further season. M° Ommassini opened the 2011 edition of the Verona Contemporanea Festival at the Teatro Filarmonico with the Orchestra dell’ Arena di Verona. In September he conducted the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano; more recently he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Novara, Rigoletto and La Sonnambula at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso, at the Comunale in Ferrara and at the Alighieri in Ravenna, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatreo San Carlo in Naples, and a series of concerts at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.

Plans include: L’Italiana in Algeri in Treviso and Ferrara; La Scala di seta for the OperaLombardia (Cremona, Brescia, Pavia, Bergamo, Como); Zenobia in Palmira in Naples.