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Aquiles Machado - Enzo Grimaldo*
Winner of
numerous international competitions including Operalia and Viñas, Aquiles
Machado makes his debut with Elisir d'Amore in Caracas and later with
Macbeth in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Among his most successful
interpretations: La Traviata (Bilbao, Cagliari), Rigoletto (Nice,
Verona), Macbeth (Valencia), La Bohème (Florence, Madrid, Tokyo,
Los Angeles, Washington), Lucia di Lammermoor (Las Palmas, Bilbao),
Faust (Nice), Der Rosenkavalier (Vienna), Les Contes d'Hoffmann
(Seville and Rome), Luisa Miller (Naples), Les Troyens (London
Symphony Orchestra). In recent years he discovered a more dramatic repertoire
with Tosca (Beijing), Un Ballo in Maschera (Liége), La Forza
del Destino (Festival Verdi at the Teatro Regio in Parma and Wiener
Staatsoper) and Simone Boccanegra (Berlin and Barcellona). He works with
prestigious conductors, such as: Daniel Barenboim, Maurizio Benini, Semyon
Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Jesús Lopez Cobos, Placido Domingo, Rafael Frubeck de
Burgos, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Leopold Hagger, Friedrich Hayder, Daniel Oren,
Mistlav Rostropovich.
After his
success gained as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca and I Masnadieri in
Naples Aquiles Machado recently performed in La Gioconda in Palermo,
Carmen in Las Palmas, as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the
Opernhaus in Zurich, Alfredo in La Traviata in Florence, Pinkerton in
Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.
Future plans : La Bohème in Valencia and
Venice; La tabernera del Puerto in La Coruna; Norma and Verdi’s
Requiem at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Roméo et Juliette
(Roméo)at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; La Traviata in Oviedo;
Madama Butterfly in Vienna; Cavalleria Riusticana in Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria. He will be engaged in concert in Madrid.
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Gregory Bonfatti - Isèpo
Won the "A.
Belli "in Spoleto '91 and made his debut as Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola)
with Bruno Aprea starting an intense activity that led him to the Teatro alla
Scala in Milan, the San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Teatro
Regio in Turin, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale, the Paris Opéra, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Gregory
Bonfatti is in high demand for the funny roles such as Dr. Cajus in Falstaff,
Arlecchino in Pagliacci, and Goro in Madama Butterfly (engraved by
EMI with Antonio Pappano).
He collaborated with prestigious
conductor such as: Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Maurizio Benini, Gabriele
Ferro, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Paolo Arrivabeni, Zoltan Pesko and Vladimir Jurowski.
He will
perform in Madama Butterfly at the Bayerische Staatsoper in
Munich.
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