Badri Maisuradze - tenor

With his dark and powerful tenor voice, Badri Maisuradze boasts a vast repertory that includes about 40 roles in Russian, Italian, French, German and Georgian works of both classical and contemporary music. Mr. Maisuradze collaborated with such conductors as Maurizio Arena, Vladimir Fedoseev, Valery Gergiev, Antonio Guadagno, Daniel Oren, Seiji Ozawa, Carlo Rizzi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Vedernikov and Marcello Viotti, performing at Europe’s major opera houses. Mr Maisuradze lately performed: Otello at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, at the Split Summer Festival in Croatia, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège and at the Cape Town Opera; Aida at the Greek National Opera in Athens; Il Tabarro and Cavalleria Rusticana in Messina; Samson et Dalila (Samson) at the Opéra de Montpellier. Amongst his future plans it is worth mentioning I Pagliacci at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and Otello in Gozo.

Francesco Cilluffo - conductor

Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music and King’s College in London. Among his most notable appearances as conductor: L’Arlesiana for the season’s opening of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi; concerts with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; a new production of Il Trovatore for the AsLiCo on tour in Northern Italy’s historical theaters; Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem and Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Festival della Valle d’Itria; concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago de Chile; The Servant by Tutino at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Byblos Festival; a gala concert at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow. Future engagements include: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Nuovo in Sassari; a new production of Rossini’s Tancredi for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (touring in Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali; Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration with the orchestra).