Eleonora Buratto - soprano

After her recent and notable role debuts as Liù in Turandot at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (March 2015), conducted by Juraj Valčuha and as Contessa d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro(May 2015)at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, in the famous Giorgio Strehler production, Eleonora Buratto sang Mahler’s Symphony n.2 at the Opera di Firenze under the baton of Daniele Gatti and made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore under the baton of Fabio Luisi. Other important engagements include:Falstaff as Nannetta conducted by Zubin Mehta at the Salzburg Festival and as Alice at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna conducted by Riccardo Muti, Adina in L’elisir d’amore at Teatro Real di Madrid, Musetta in La Bohème at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Montpellier Festival, at the Teatro Regio in Turin and on tour in Shangai under Gianandrea Noseda. She was Despina in Così fan tutte at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and took on the role of Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Handel in Modena, with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone. She also took part inAriadne auf Naxos conducted by Daniel Harding at the Salzburg Festival.

Among her future engagements, it is worth mentioning her coming debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Norina in Don Pasquale. Other plans include Micaela in Carmen in Naples, Madrid and Chicago; La Bohème (Mimì) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Le Nozze di Figaro (Contessa d’Almaviva)in Amsterdam; Falstaff (cond. Riccardo Muti) in Chicago.

Saimir Pirgu - Tenor

Recent successes include: King Roger at the Royal Opera House in London under the baton of Antonio Pappano, Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore in Vienna,  Alfredo in La Traviata in Berlin, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Arena in Verona Stefano Montanari directing, Riccardo in Un ballo in Maschera in Tel Aviv with Zubin Mehta, and in Verdi’s Requiem in Amsterdam with Marc Albrecht

Plans include: Don Giovanni and a new production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi (under Marco Armiliato) at the Wiener Staatsoper; Rigoletto (Daniel Oren conducting), La Clemenza di Tito and Lucia di Lammermoor in Toulouse; La Traviata at the Royal Opera House in London and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Falstaff in Chicago with Riccardo Muti; a new production of Madama Butterfly in Zurich; La Bohème and Macbeth at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona;  a revival of King Roger in Sydney. On the concert side, Mr. Pirgu will sing again Verdi’s Requiem in Paris (under Gianandrea Noseda) and Luxembourg, Berlioz’ Requiem in Vienna (under Tugan Sokhiev) and a gala concert at the Chorégies d’ Orange.