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 Aquiles Machado - Rodolfo
Winner of
numerous international competitions including Operalia and Viñas, Aquiles
Machado debuted with Elisir d'Amore in Caracas and later with Macbeth
in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Among his most successful interpretations:
La Traviata (Bilbao, Cagliari), Rigoletto (Nice, Verona), Macbeth
(Valencia), La Bohème (Florence, Madrid, Tokyo, Los Angeles,
Washington), Lucia di Lammermoor (Las Palmas, Bilbao), Faust
(Nice), Der Rosenkavalier (Vienna), Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Seville
and Rome), Luisa Miller (Naples), Les Troyens (London Symphony
Orchestra). In recent years he discovered a more dramatic repertoire with
Tosca (Beijing), Un Ballo in Maschera (Liège), La Forza del
Destino (Festival Verdi at the Teatro Regio in Parma and Wiener Staatsoper)
and Simone Boccanegra (Berlin and Barcellona). He works with prestigious
conductors, such as: Roberto Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Maurizio Benini, Semyon
Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Jesús Lopez Cobos, Placido Domingo, Rafael Frubeck de
Burgos, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Leopold Hagger, Friedrich Hayder, Daniel Oren,
Mistlav Rostropovich. After his success gained as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca
and in I Masnadieri in Naples, Aquiles Machado recently performed Enzo
Grimaldo in La Gioconda in Palermo and Rome, Don José in Carmen in
Las Palmas, Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra in Zurich, Alfredo in
La Traviata in Florence, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Puccini
Festival in Torre del Lago, Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Wiener
Staatsoper.
Future
plans: La
Bohème in Venice; Norma and Verdi’s Requiem at the Teatro
Comunale in Bologna; Roméo et Juliette (Roméo) at the Opéra Royal de
Wallonie in Liège; La Traviata in Oviedo; Madama Butterfly in
Vienna; Verdi’s Requiem in Leipzig.
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 Gianluca Buratto - Colline
A winner of
the Junior Prize in the "Ferruccio Tagliavini" Competition, in 2009 Gianluca
Buratto made his operatic debut at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, in the world
premiere of Il Carro e I Canti by Alessandro Solbiati.
Among his
most notable past engagements: Maria Stuarda in Trieste, Bach’s B
minor Mass with Savall in Madrid and Barcelona, both Mozart and Jommelli's
Betulia liberata with Muti in Salzburg and Ravenna; Mercadante’s
Virginia and Puccini’s La Bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival;
Ambrosini’s Il Killer di Parole (world premiere), La Bohème and
Rigoletto in Venice; 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 and in Rome; the world premiere of Solbiati’s La leggenda in
Turin with Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in Barcelona with
Rousset; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival.
Mr.
Buratto's future engagements include: I Due Foscari in Valencia
beside Placido Domingo; Rigoletto in Venice; Macbeth at the
Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Maria Stuarda in Florence; Monteverdi’s
L’Orfeo in Nancy under Christophe Rousset.
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