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Angelo Villari - Guglielmo Ratcliff
Born in
Messina, Angelo Villari graduated in singing from the A. Boito conservatoire in
Parma. In the past seasons he sang: Cavalleria Rusticana in Lecce, Pagliacci in
Malta, Attila (Foresto) in Rovereto; Il Trovatore at the Teatro
Donizetti in Bergamo; Madama Butterfly in Lübeck and in Bari; La
Traviata in Malta; the main role in Ennio Porrino’s I Shardana at the
Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; conducted by Anthony Bramall in a new production by
Davide Livermore (just issued in DVD by Dynamic).
He starred in Casella’s La donna serpente, singing the main tenor
role under Fabio Luisi for the opening of the Martina Franca Festival. Mr.
Villari recently sang Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur in Como, Pavia and
Cremona; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Parma and with the Rome
Opera at the Terme in Caracalla.
Plans include:
Madama Butterfly in Palermo and Alfano’s La Leggenda di Sakundala
in Catania.
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Mariangela Sicilia - Maria
Operalia Prize winner Mariangela Sicilia is one of the most exciting Italian
young sopranos; she has been seen, in the past seasons, in Massenet’s Cléopâtre at
the Salzburg Festival; Il Viaggio a Reims, La Donna del Lago (Zedda
conducting), L'Italiana in Algeri and L’Inganno Felice at the
Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Cilea’s L'Arlesiana at the Wexford
Festival Opera and in Jesi; Rigoletto in Bari. Ms. Sicilia recently
performed L’Elisir d’Amore in Madrid and in Monte Carlo; in Paris she
performed in La Pietra del Paragone with Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the
Théâtre du Châtelet and La Bohème (Musetta) under Mark Elder and
Adriana Lecouvreur under Daniel Oren at the Paris Opera. She also sang: Petite
Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Zedda; Guillaume Tell at the
Teatro Comunale in Bologna, (c. Mariotti; d. Vick); Orphée et Eurydice
and La Bohème in Palermo; Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri (Concertgebouw)
and new production of Benvenuto Cellini (Térésa) at the Dutch National
Opera in Amsterdam, directed by Terry Gilliam and conducted by Mark Elder in
Amsterdam. Future plans include: Fauré’s Requiem at the Opera in
Florence; La Scala di Seta and Mozart’s Requiem in Liège under
Paolo Arrivabeni; Turandot (Liù) in Montpellier; Petite Messe
Solennelle in Palermo and in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw; Carmen at
the Teatro Regio in Turin; Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) with the Opéra de
Lyon at the Royal Opera House in Muscat; Mozart’s Requiem in Parma and
Piacenza with the Toscanini Orchestra.
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Annunziata Vestri - Margherita
Winner of “Lauri Volpi”, “Maria Caniglia” and Rosertum Lyric Contests, Mrs
Vestri made her debut in 2003 as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. An eclectic
artist with bold acting qualities, she can boast a huge repertoire that spans
from Bel Canto to Verdi and Puccini’s masterpieces.
Mrs. Vestri
regularly collaborates with theaters as: Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio
in Turin, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, San Carlo in
Naples, Opéra de Montecarlo, Teatro Regio in Parma, Puccini Festival in Torre
del Lago, Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Festival dei Due Mondi in
Spoleto. Amongst her recent engagements: Donizetti’s Belisario and Torquato
Tasso at the Bergamo Musica Festival; Cilea’s L’Arlesiana at the
Wexford Festival and in Jesi; La Clemenza di Tito in Trieste; Rigoletto in
Naples; Carmen in Livorno, Lucca and Genoa; Il Trovatore in
Schenkenberg; La Traviata in Bari; Madama Butterfly in Kiel,
Florence and Bari; Andrea Chénier (Madelon) in Naples; Aida (Amneris)
in St. Margarethen and in Kazan; Falstaff in Marseille.
Mrs. Vestri made her film debut performing as Tisbe in La Cenerentola for
the Opera movie directed by Carlo Verdone, conducted by Gelmetti and produced by
Rada Film.
Plans include:
Carmen, Suor Angelica and Falstaff at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Monte Carlo; La Cenerentola at
the Rome Opera and at the Massimo in Palermo.
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Gianluca Buratto - Mac Gregor
A noble and round voice, Gianluca Buratto is rapidly establishing himself as one
of his most versatile basses of his generation. His recent engagements include:
Bach’s B minor Mass with Savall in Madrid and Barcelona, both Mozart and
Jommelli’s Betulia liberata with Muti in Salzburg and Ravenna and in
Wroclaw under Rovaris; Mercadante’s Virginia at the Wexford Festival
Opera; Mozart’s Mass in C minor KV 427 at the Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia in Rome with Nagano; Bach’s Johannes-Passion with
Lopez-Banzo in Spain and Germany; Macbeth with Muti at the Salzburg
Festival, Rome and Chicago; Solbiati’s La Leggenda in Turin with
Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro in Barcelona with Rousset; L’Incoronazione
di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; La Bohème (with
Chailly) and I Due Foscari in Valencia; Macbeth at the Teatro alla
Scala in Milan; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican City, in Naples, Bari and
in Milan (concert and recording) with La Verdi Orchestra; Rigoletto in
Genoa under Luisi and in Bogotà; Handel’s Rinaldo and Admeto at
the Theater an der Wien; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Rousset and Les
Talens Lyriques in Nancy and Paris; La Bohème in Rome and in
Amsterdam; I Puritani in Florence; Rigoletto at the Sferisterio
Opera Festival in Macerata; Le Duc d’Albe in London for Opera Rara; La
Bohème in Palermo; Verdi’s Requiem in Manchester under Mark Elder. He
had just starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespers on US tour
and at the Wigmore Hall in London with the Monteverdi Choir and the English
Baroque Soloists, under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Plans include:
revivals of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot
Gardiner in Versailles; Die Zauberflöte in Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni;
I Due Foscari in Amsterdam; Faccio’s Amleto and Turandot at
the Bregenzer Festspiele; Semiramide in London for Opera Rara;
Turandot in Montpellier; Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette in Beirut. In
2016 he will have his first solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London.
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Francesco Cilluffo - conductor
Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall
School of Music and the King’s College in London. Among his most notable
appearances as conductor: Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules in Palermo;
concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile); Mozart’s Requiem
(Levin edition), Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 and Shostakovich’s Symphony
no. 14 with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino; concerts tour with the
ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the opening of the
2013-2014 season of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (just released in CD and DVD for
Dynamic); Verdi Galas at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and at the Verdi
Festival in Parma; Cavalleria rusticana in Sassari; Tancredi for
the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali; La cambiale di matrimonio at the Teatro
Regio in Parma; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Genoa; Wolf-Ferrari’s Il
Campiello at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the
Teatro Verdi in Trieste; L’elisir d’amore at the Regio in Parma, at the
Comunale in Modena and with the New Israeli Opera; Tutino’s Le Braci (world
première) at the Martina Franca Festival; Nabucco in Kiel. Plans: a
revival of Le Braci at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; a
new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the New Israeli Opera in
Tel Aviv; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège and in
Charleroi; a concert with the Toscanini Orchestra in Parma.
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