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Aquiles Machado - Pollione *
Winner of
numerous international competitions including Operalia and Viñas, Aquiles
Machado made his debut 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, Mr. Machado 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, Rodolfo in La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly
conducting, Un Ballo in Maschera in Las Palmas. Aquiles Machado has just
performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna and on tour in Moscow at the
Rostropovich Festival. Future
plans:
Il
Trovatore at the
Macerata Opera Festival; Roméo et Juliette (Roméo) at the Opéra Royal de
Wallonie in Liège; La Traviata in Oviedo; Madama Butterfly in
Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); a lyric concert in Palermo. Mr. Machado will star in
Verdi’s Requiem in Leipzig, Cincinnati and St. Louis.
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Gianluca Floris - Flavio
A
specialist for comic characters, he regularly works with such conductors as
Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Yuri Temirkanov, Daniel Oren and Placido Domingo.
Among the main roles in his reperto ire it is worth mentioning: Goro in
Madama Butterfly, Edmondo in Manon Lescaut, Pang and Pong in
Turandot, Malcolm in Macbeth, the Messenger in Aida, Narraboth
in Salome, Spoletta in Tosca, Gastone in La Traviata,
Normanno and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Wagner in Boito’s
Mefistofele, Dr. Cajus and Bardolfo in Falstaff, Walter in
Tannhäuser, Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Remendado in Carmen,
Selim in Il Corsaro and an Incredible in Andrea Chénier. Mr.
Floris recently performed Norma and Andrea Chénier in Turin.
Future plans: Nabucco
in Bologna and Norma in Lyon.
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