Virginia Tola - Amelia (13^th, 15^th, 17^th)

Winner of the Operalia Prize in Barcelona, Mrs. Tola began a career that brought her to important theaters such as: Colòn in Buenos Aires, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Teatro Real in Madrid, Washington National Opera, Opéra in Monte Carlo, Arena in Verona, La Monnaie in Brussels, Los Angeles Opéra, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Regio in Turin and the opera houses in Klagenfurt, La Plata and Santa Fe. After her successes as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Contessa d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Violetta in Traviata, Desdemona in Otello, Luisa Miller (title role) and Mimì in La Bohème, she has recently added new roles to her repertoire, singing Lina in Stiffelio, Abigaille in Nabucco, Nedda in Pagliacci, Amelia in Un ballo in Maschera. Mrs. Tola lately sang Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Regio in Parma and at the Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro Massimo in Palermo,  Desdemona in Otello in Modena and Piacenza and Lina in Stiffelio in Monte-Carlo; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Oviedo; Falstaff in Sao Paulo. Besides her opera appearances, Ms. Tola usually performs in concerts all over the world; she recently appeared in recital besides Placido Domingo in Japan. Mrs. Tola’s discography includes Ginastera’s Don Rodrigo and Milena and Bacalov’s Triple Concerto for Delos International. Virginia Tola recently gained great success singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

Among her future plans it is worth mentioning Un ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; I Due Foscari in Marseille; Nabucco at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Don Carlo in Madrid and at the Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo. Mrs. Tola will also star in a lyric concert at the Opera in Florence.

Fabrizio Beggi - Samuel (11^th, 13^th, 14^th, 15^th, 16^th, 17^th, 18^th)

Mr. Beggi started his career in 2011 attending the Ensemble Opera Studio at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, where he made his debut in Donizetti’s Il Campanello (Don Annibale Pistacchio), then he performed in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Marco e Maestro Spinelloccio) and in Roméo et Juliette (Le Duc) under Fabio Luisi. Fabrizio Beggi won the Toti Dal Monte prize in 2012, which led him to make his debut in Cimarosa’s Matrimonio Segreto in Treviso, Ferrara and Rovigo. Mr. Beggi recently sang Rigoletto in Savona, Battistelli’s Matrimonio all’Italiana at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, La Cenerentola (Alidoro) in Ferrara and Treviso. Mr. Beggi regularly collaborates with the Teatro Regio in Turin, where in the past seasons he starred in Andrea Chénier, Don Carlo and more recently in Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, Un Ballo in Maschera on tour in Japan and Guillaume Tell (Melchtal), then on tour at the Edinburgh Festival and in Canada. Recently he performed I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Reate Festival under Fabio Biondi and Tosca in Jesi and Fermo.

Future plans include: Le Nozze di Figaro and I Puritani at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Handel’s Imeneo at the Handel Festival in Halle with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, I Capuleti e I Montecchi in Warsaw.

Alessandro Carletti - light designer

He was born in Rome. He studied photography and painting through which he very soon discovered his passion for lighting design that is also very much present in his family and his first experiences are the productions directed by Carmelo Bene at the Teatro Eliseo. In the late 90s he started working at the Rossini Opera Festival where he consolidated his experience in opera productions.

With director Damiano Michieletto he started collaborating in 2008 in Lugo on Jackie’O. He worked with the same director at Teatro San Carlo in Naples for Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and at Rossini Opera Festival he created lighting design for La Scala di Seta and in 2010 Sigismondo. Furthermore, in 2011 they continued their collaboration in Valencia on Elisir d’amore, at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo Greek Passion and Cosi fan tutte at the New National Theatre Tokyo. 

He worked regularly with directors such as Daniele Abbado, Francesco Micheli, Henning Brockhaus, Pippo Delbono, Franco Ripa di Meana, Yannis Kokkos, Damiano Micheieletto and others.

Recent works that are worth mentioning: Il Trittico (Theater an der Wien), Don Carlos (Wiener Staatsoper), Cavalleria Rusticana (Teatro San Carlo, Naples), Nabucco (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Ballo in Maschera (Teatro La Scala) and many others. In the near future he will create lighting design for Il Viaggio A Reims (De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam), Le Nozze di Figaro (Theater an der Wien), Guillaume Tell (Royal Opera House, London), Otello (Wiener Staatsoper) and two revivals of Nabucco (Liceu, Barcelona and Lyric Opera Chicago).