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Angela Nisi - Kristina
Born in
Brindisi, Angela Nisi made her debut as Micaëla in Carmen in Bassano del
Grappa. She then performed Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in Turin; Lucia di
Lammermoor (Lucia) and Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Bassano del
Grappa; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera in Catania; Violetta in La
Traviata at the Varna Summer Festival and in Essen; Giulietta in Verdi’s Un
giorno di regno at the Reate Festival. Ms. Nisi recently sang Rossini’sPetite
Messe Solennelle at the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome with
Antonio Pappano; Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Bangkok; Il
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Clorinda) in Rome; Carmen (Micaëla)
at the Cortona Mix Festival and in Florence with the Orchestra della Toscana;
Mozart’s Requiem in Benevento; Rota’s Mysterium at the Teatro
Petruzzelli in Bari; Fauré’s Requiem and Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri in
Cagliari; Haydn’s Die Schöpfung in Trieste under the baton of Gianluigi
Gelmetti; Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in Bassano del Grappa.
Angela Nisi starred in the world première of Tutino’s Le Braci at the
Martina Franca Festival.
Plans
include: La
Traviata in Toulon; Don Pasquale in Rennes; a concert at the Reate
Festival in Rieti.
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Davide Giusti - Giovane Konrad
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. 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. He recently
sang 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; the world premiere of
Tutino’s Le Braci at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca;
Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) in Treviso.
On the concert side, he appeared in a recital in Monte Carlo and in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in
Mannheim, Munich and Nuremberg. Future plans include: 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; revivals
of Don Giovanni in Treviso and Ferrara; Otello (Cassio) at the
Sferisterio in Macerata.
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Gregory Bonfatti - Giovane Konrad*
A winner of the “A. Belli” competition in Spoleto, he made his debut as Don
Ramiro (La Cenerentola), starting an intense activity that brought him to
many of the most important international opera theaters, such as: Teatro alla
Scala in Milan, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Regio
in Turin, Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Paris Opera, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Gregory Bonfatti is in high demand especially
for character roles such as Dr. Cajus in Falstaff, Arlecchino in Pagliacci and
Goro in Madama Butterfly (a role he
recorded for EMI with Antonio Pappano).
He collaborated
with prestigious conductors such as: Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Maurizio
Benini, Gabriele Ferro, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Paolo Arrivabeni, Zoltan Pesko and
Vladimir Jurowski. Mr Bonfatti recently performed: Tchaikovsky’s The
Slippers in Cagliari; Rigoletto in Amsterdam; Haydn’s Stabat Mater in
Bologna; Haydn’s La Canterina with Cappella Augustina in Brühl; Madama
Butterfly and Turandot in Torre del Lago.
Plans
include
: Le Nozze di
Figaro in Toulouse; Madama Butterfly in Fano and Ascoli Piceno; La
Finta Giardiniera in Rennes.
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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; a new production of Nabucco in Kiel; a new production of
Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera, where he
enjoyed a huge success both with critics and audiences. Future plans: 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; concerts with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma. He will open
the 2016-2017 season of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino with an all-Poulenc
program.
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