Nino Surguladze - Santuzza

Georgian born Nino Surguladze is one of the most interesting artist of her generation. After attending Accademia alla Scala, she has already sung in world’s premier opera stages such as Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Arena in Verona, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, Glyndebourne Festival, Salzburg Festival, Teatro Real in Madrid, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in Turin and in Parma, collaborating with such conductors as Muti, Plasson, Harding, Gergiev. Ms. Surguladze lately sang Sinaïde in Moïse et Pharaon (cond. Muti) at the Salzburg Festival and in Rome; Dorabella in Così fan Tutte and Carmen (title role) in Tokyo; Carmen in San Diego and St. Petersburg; Olga in Evgenij Onegin in Chicago. Mrs. Surguladze just starred as Maddalena in Rigoletto in Cologne and Genoa under Fabio Luisi; Fenena in Nabucco at La Scala in Milan and Olga in Evgenij Onegin at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette at the Arena in Verona. Nino Surguladze also starred as Maddalena in the opera movie Rigoletto, beside Placido Domingo in the title role. After her great success as Amneris in Aida at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Nino Surguladze makes her debut in the verismo’s repertoire in Mascagni’s one act masterpiece.

Plans include: Carmen in Seoul and Sassari; Aida in Bergen; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de musica de Bogotà; Luisa Miller at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Damnation de Faust at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

Jean-Pierre Furlan - Canio/Turiddu

His operatic breakthrough came with his performance in the role of Hoffmannin in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Salle Gaveau in Paris in 1993 and ever since he has been appearing in that role at many major opera houses in France and abroad. In Italy he made his debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at La Fenice in Venice and in the title role of Faust at La Scala, Milan. His recent performances in France include Cavaradossi (Tosca) in Nice, Faust in Dijon as well as Samson (Samson et Dalila) and Pollione (Norma) in St. Etienne and Luigi in Il tabarro at the Opera in Lyon. His German engagements  have taken him lately to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Leipzig Opera and the Hamburg State Opera. He also recently sang Le Cid by Massenet at the Zurich Opera, Don José in Carmen at the Graz and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Don Carlos at the Hamburg State Opera and at the Flanders Opera in Antwerp, Samson in Karlsruhe and his most popular role Hoffmann at the Malmö Opera in Sweden. His latest engagements include among others Cavaradossi in Copenhagen and revival of Carmen in Graz.

Plans include: Turandot in Metz; La Juive in Antwerp. His first Otello will take place in 2014.