Eleonora Buratto - Norina

After her success as Micaela in Carmen for the opening night of the season at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Zubin Mehta conducting, Eleonora Buratto will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Plans include: in Chicago Falstaff with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti conducting, Musetta in La Bohème and Micaela in Carmen (Harry Bicket conducting) at the Lyric Opera; La Bohème (Mimì) in Barcelona and Zurich; Le Nozze di Figaro (Contessa d’Almaviva) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and with the Wiener Staatsoper on tour in Japan; Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Aix-en-Provence; Don Pasquale (Norina) at La Scala in Milan, Riccardo Chailly conducting; Micaela in Carmen at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Maurizio Benini - conductor*

Maurizio Benini will return to the Metropolitan Opera after his successes in Il Trovatore at the Dutsch National Opera in Amsterdam, new production directed by La Fura dels Baus and the concert and recording of Leoncavallo’s Zazà with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall in London.

Plans include: productions at the Opéra de Montecarlo (Adriana Lecouvreur); at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Roberto Devereux, Il barbiere di Siviglia, I Puritani and other important productions); at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Lucia di Lammermoor); at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Opéra de Paris (Il Trovatore); at the Opernhaus in Zurich (I Capuleti e I Montecchi). In the following seasons he will return to the Royal Opera House in London conducting Nabucco, La Traviata and Les Vêpres siciliennes.

Maurizio Benini has been awarded “best conductor of the season” (2012) by the most important critics of Spanish musical magazines and newspapers thanks to his interpretation of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur staged at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.