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Luciana D’Intino - Santuzza*
One of today’s most appreciated mezzo, after her outstanding success in Aida
at the Covent Garden in London, the Sunday Times wrote: «a glorious mezzo
soprano...the most exciting Italian singer in her role in the last years».
Particularly appreciated in the Italian and French repertoire, she has
established an extraordinary international career, performing regularly on the
world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses with such conductors as
Salvatore Accardo, Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Colin
Davis, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and
George Prêtre.
Plans include:
Verdi’s Requiem at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome,
Il Trovatore in Vienna and Adriana Lecouvreur in Monte Carlo.
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Cristina Melis - Mamma Lucia
Winner of the
International Lyric Contest “Giacomo Lauri Volpi” and the International Contest
“Giuseppe Verdi” in Parma, Cristina Melis debuted as Azucena in Il Trovatore in
Parma.
She recently performed in Ravel’s L’Enfant et Sortileges under Yves Abel
at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, where she also starred in Schumann’s Manfred under
the baton of Michele Mariotti and in La Gioconda (La Cieca). It is worth
mentioning her collaboration with the Arena in Verona, where she performed in Carmen, Traviata,
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and in a series of concerts on tour in Europe
(Madrid, London, Brussels, Berlin, Düsseldorf). She made her debut as
Cenerentola and as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Regio
in Turin, as Carmen in Bergamo, as Azucena in Il Trovatore and
Amneris in Aida in Parma, Fenena in Nabucco on tour in Italy.
Cristina Melis recently sang Il Trovatore and Madama Butterfly at
the Opera in Kiel, El Amor Brujo in Cagliari, Evgenij Onegin and
Bruckner’s Te Deum at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Mrs. Melis
collaborated with such conductors as Bartoletti, Morandi, Severini, Beltrami,
Gatti, Wilson, Dinic, Campanella, Rizzi, Carella, De Bernart, Oren, Conlon,
Armiliato, Mariotti, Kovatchev, Arrivabeni, Jurowski and directors such as De
Ana, Zeffirelli, Micheli, Sammaritani, Pier’Alli, Franconi Lee, Cannito.
Plans include: Olga in Eugenij Onegin and Adriano in Rienzi at the
Opernhaus in Kiel.
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