Jenish Ysmanov - Rodolfo
Born in Kirghizstan and specialized in Milan and in Valencia at the Centre de Perfeccionament Placido Domingo, Jenish Ysmanov made his debut in 2006 singing Lenskij in Evgenij Onegin. Among his past engagements it is worth mentioning: a Gala concert at the Arena in Verona; Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto in Savona, Como, Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi and Fermo; Rodolfo in La Bohème on tour in Italy (Biella, Vercelli, Aosta, Ventimiglia, Salsomaggiore Terme) and more recently at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona; Raimondo in Rota’s I Due Timidi at the Teatro Malibran in Venice and at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari where he also performed La notte di un nevrastenico.Mr. Ysmanov also sang I Vespri Siciliani in Reggio Emilia, Piacenza and Modena, La Traviata at the Festival Verdi in Busseto and at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
Recently he starred at the Gala Concert in honor of Luciano Pavarotti at the Teatro Comunale in Modena under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
Francesco Cilluffo - conductor
Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music and the King’s College in London. Among his most notable appearances as conductor: Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules in Palermo; concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile); Mozart’s Requiem (Levin edition), Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino; concerts tour with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the opening of the 2013-2014 season of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (just released in CD and DVD for Dynamic); Verdi Galas at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Cavalleria rusticana in Sassari; Tancredi for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali; La cambiale di matrimonio at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Genoa; Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; L’elisir d’amore at the Regio in Parma, at the Comunale in Modena and with the New Israeli Opera; Tutino’s Le Braci (world première) at the Martina Franca Festival and at the Opera di Firenze–Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; a new production of Nabucco in Kiel; a new production of Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera, where he enjoyed a huge success both with critics and audiences; a symphonic concert with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma. Future plans: a new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège and in Charleroi; Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream for the OperaLombardia circuit (Italy). He will open the 2016-2017 season of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino with a Poulenc program.
National Theatre of Opera and Balletof Albania
Tirana
December 22nd, 2015
December 24th