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Alessandro Liberatore - Leicester
Increasingly on demand at the
international level, he is the interpreter of titles such as: La Bohème (Deutsche
Oper in Berlin, Palm Beach Lyric Opera, Hong Kong, Mannheim), Rigoletto (Palermo,
Lisbon), Madama Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera in Miami , Teatro Comunale
Bologna), La Clemenza di Tito (Bergen), La
Traviata (Trieste, Sassari, Rouen, Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa,
Cagliari, Sassari, Erl). He also successfully performed: Thaïs and Idomeneo in
Turin; I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Rome;
Der Rosenkavalier (Italian
Singer) in Barcelona and Madrid.
Mr. Liberatore made his
successful debut in Verdi’s Requiem in Cagliari, a piece he sang also at
the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa under Aldo Ceccato and with the Orchestra Haydn
in Toblach. Other recent successes include: Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in
Tampere; Lucio Silla (title role) in Barcelona under Harry Bickett;
Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican City, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples,
in Milan (recorded for Decca) and in Bari; Manon Lescaut with Riccardo
Muti, La Bohème and Lucia di Lammermoor in Rome; Beethoven’s Missa
Solemnis and L’Elisir d’amore
in Cagliari; Otello (Cassio) in
Naples; Nabucco in Nancy; Massenet’s Manon in Liège, opposite
Annick Massis; Verdi’s Requiem in Erl under Gustav Kuhn.
Amongst his
future plans
it is worth mentioning his debut as Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera in
Bern.
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Sandra Pastrana - Matilde
The Spanish soprano made
her debut in Barcelona as Norina in Don Pasquale, a role that she then
performed under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the Musikverein in Vienna.
In the past seasons she appeared in La
Traviata in Marbella, Haydn’s Lo Speziale at the Teatro de la
Maestranza in Seville, La Gazza Ladra (Ninetta) at the Rossini Opera
Festival in Wildbad. She was Violetta Valery in La Traviata in Siena,
conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti; Lisette in Graham Vick’s production of La
Rondine by Puccini at La Fenice in Venice; Marie in La Fille du Régiment in
Tokyo. She also sang Don Pasquale in Ancona under Bruno Campanella; La
Cecchina in Bergamo under Stefano Montanari; Adelaide di Borgogna in
La Coruña with Alberto Zedda; Petite Messe Solennelle with Gustav Kuhn in
Lucca, Erl and Rome; Rigoletto in Korea with Deuk-Gy Kim. She recently
performed Don Giovanni in Lucca; La Sonnambula and L’Elisir
d’Amore in Malaga; Werther in Salerno and Sassari where she also
sang La clemenza di Tito and Il Signor Bruschino; Il Ratto dal
Serraglio (world modern premiere of the Italian version) in Vicenza; Help,
Help, the Globolinks! in Palermo; Rigoletto in Cosenza; La
Traviata in Spoleto and Ljubljana; Nabucco in Erl under Gustav Kuhn; Il
Cappello di Paglia di Firenze at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
in Florence; La Bottega dei Sogni in Bari; Tebaldo e Isolina at
the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad; Manon
in Liège;
Jenufa at the Teatro Comunale
in Bologna; Mozart’s Krönungsmesse
KV 317 in Granada; Boccherini’s
Stabat Mater
with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana
in Florence and on tour in Italy; Haydn’s La
Canterina with Capella Augustina
and Andreas Spering for the Opening concert of the Brühler Schlosskonzerte;
concerts in Monte Carlo and in Kazan.
Among her future plans it is worth
mentioning: Carmen at the
Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La
Bohème in Oviedo;
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
(Konstanze) in Malaga; Fauré’s
Requiem
in Spain.
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