Riccardo Zanellato - Oroveso

Riccardo Zanellato’s career has led him to become one of the reference artists for the most important bass roles. Regularly invited by Riccardo Muti for many productions at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (among others Iphigénie en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth, Nabucco, Simon Boccanegra), he collaborates with such institutions as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Verdi Festival in Parma, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Liceu in Barcelona, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Mr. Zanellato lately starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro alla Scala, Poliuto and La Bohème in Zurich and Macbeth in Lyon, Banco is the role he also sang for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season in Bologna recently revived under the baton of Roberto Abbado, La Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius, Nabucco in Florence, Stuttgart and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato starred in Schubert’s Mass in A flat for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna, at the Ravenna Festival then on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Riccardo Muti, in Minnesota under the baton of Roberto Abbado, more recently at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. He sang Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti, then he performed Giorgio in Bellini’s I Puritani and Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in Dresden, Timur in Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Bohème and Norma at the Teatro Regio in Turin and a Gala concert for the 5th Anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House in China.

Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in Stuttgart; Aida in Valencia and Naples; Il Trovatore at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Attila at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; new production of Don Carlo in Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato will sing Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Riccardo Chailly and Bruckner’s Te Deum at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.