Roberta Mameli - Poppea

A Specialist of Baroque music, she has a repertoire that goes up to the twentieth century. Among her recent performances, it is worth mentioning: Handel’s Athalia (Josabeth) with Capella Cracoviensis and Paul Goodwin in Krakow; Vivaldi’s Teuzzone (Cino) with Le Concert de Nations and Jordi Savall in Versailles (recorded for Naïve); Il Novello Giasone (Isifile) by Cavalli/Stradella at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca; Mozart’s Requiem with the Choir and Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Christopher Hogwood at the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa; Così fan tutte (Dorabella) under Ryo Terakado in Tokyo; Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Minerva) in Amsterdam and Regensburg with La Venexiana and Claudio Cavina; Handel’s Deidamia (Nerea) at the Theater an der Wien and in Braunschweig, Handel’s Ariodante (Ginevra) in Turin and Bucharest, Handel’s Orlando(Angelica) in Versailles, all of them with Il Complesso Barocco and Alan Curtis; Scarlatti’s La Giuditta (title role) with La Venexiana and Claudio Cavina in Krakow; Handel’s Agrippina (Poppea) and Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso (1714) (world premiere) at the Festival de Beaune with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli; Italian cantatas by Handel at the Styriarte Graz with Contrasto Armonico and Marco Vitale; concerts with La Venexiana in Halle (Händelfestspiele), Gdańsk, Wroclaw, Krakow, Espinho, Korkyra and Bologna. Future plans: Handel’s Amadigi at the Theater an der Wien with Il Complesso Barocco and Alan Curtis; Vivaldi’s L’incoronazione di Dario with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice) with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli at the Festival de Beaune; Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica (Cesare) with Complesso Barocco and Alan Curtis on a European tour; Debussy’s La chute de la maison Usher and Le diable dans le beffroi in a new reconstruction by Robert Orledge with the Goettinger Symphonie-Orchester; concerts in Umbria with Accademia Hermans and Fabio Ciofini.

Antonio Giovannini - Ottone*

Still very young he made his debut in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo at the Teatro San Domenico in Crema, starting a career with a very busy schedule in Baroque music. He was then chosen by Riccardo Muti for the role of Matusio in Jommelli’s Demofoonte (at the Salzburg Festival and at the Palais Garnier in Paris) and for a production of Jommelli’s Betulia Liberata both in Salzburg and Ravenna. In 2009 he made his debut at the Festival International de Musique Baroque de Beaune in Handel's Giulio Cesare (Tolomeo) with Al Ayre Español and Eduardo Lopez-Banzo. Since 2009 he is a regular guest at the Kiel Opera, where he sang the title roles in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Radamisto under Rubén Dubrovsky. In 2010 he was Unulfo in a new production of Handel’s Rodelinda conducted by Diego Fasolis at the Martina Franca Festival, where he returned last summer as Megabise in Hasse’s Artaserse, Corrado Rovaris conducting. He sang Vivaldi's Catone in Utica (Fulvio) at the Theater an der Wien and at the Opera Rara Festival in Krakow with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli and Scarlatti's Flora Pellegrina at the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht with B'Rock and Eduardo Lopez-Banzo. He also sang and recorded (for Naïve) the role of Egaro in Vivaldi’s Teuzzone in Versailles with Les Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall. He has just made his outstanding US debut singing Orff’s Carmina burana with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti in Chicago and New York (Carnegie Hall). His repertoire also include contemporary operas and works by Britten like Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon) and The Turn of the Screw. Future plans : Handel’s Siroe (Medarse) at the Händel-Festspiele Göttingen under Lawrence Cummings; concerts in Rome with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli.  *role debut