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Aquiles Machado - Don Alvaro
Internationally sought-after tenor Aquiles Machado recently performed:Tosca
in Leipzig, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and
Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); Carmen, Un Ballo in Maschera and Faust
in Las Palmas; Simon Boccanegra in Zurich; Madama Butterfly in Torre
del Lago and Vienna; La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly conducting;
Norma in Bologna; Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in
Macerata; La Traviata in Oviedo, Valencia and Florence, both under Zubin
Mehta; Roméo et Juliette in Liège; Carmen in Bilbao and in Minorca;
I Due Foscari in Toulouse; La Bohème at the Terme in Caracalla (Rome)
and in Dresden; Cavalleria Rusticana in Pamplona; Madama Butterfly
and Carmen in St.Petersburg; Tosca in Cagliari under Gianluigi Gelmetti,
in Torre del Lago and at the Opera in Rome under Donato Renzetti; Don Carlo
and La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; I due Foscari at
the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona opposite Placido Domingo; Rigoletto
in Pamplona; Un Ballo in Maschera with the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra and
Zubin Mehta. Aquiles Machado performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna, then on
tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti, in Cincinnati
and St. Louis under Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, at the Gewandhaus Leipzig under
Anthony Bramall.
Plans include: Simon Boccanegra and Werther in Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria; La Vida Breve in Cincinnati; Liederabend in Tokyo; Madama
Butterfly at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Puccini's Messa di Gloria
in Bilbao; La Bohème at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; a lyric
concert in Saarbrücken.
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José Fardilha - Fra’ Melitone
Since embracing in recent years the buffo repertoire, José Fardilha is quickly becoming
one of its most sought after interpreters.
Born in Portugal, he won the "Toti dal Monte" Prize, that led him to make
his debut in Don Giovanni (Leporello) in Treviso, Rovigo, Strasbourg and
Trieste.
After that he began a career that brought him in the world's greatest opera
houses and festivals, including: Wiener Staatsoper; Salzburger Festspiele; Barbican
Center in London; Opéra de Paris; Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin; Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich; Zurich Opernhaus; Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Teatro Regio
in Turin; Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence; Arena
Sferisterio in Macerata; Martina Franca Festival; Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon and
New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.
After his success as Don Pasquale at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera
his plans include: La Cenerentola in Leipzig; Le Nozze di Figaro
in Toulouse; La Damnation de Faust in Berlin; Il Barbiere di Siviglia
in London, Berlin and Stuttgart; a series of concerts at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
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Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor
Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.
Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals, Paolo Arrivabeni is
especially in demand for Italian and French opera, but he is also particularly interested
in the major Russian and German repertoire, regularly conducting works by Mahler,
Strauss and Mussorgsky. M° Arrivabeni conducted in the past seasons La Favorite
at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, La Traviata, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra,
Tosca and Don Carlo in Dresden, Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio
Opera Festival in Macerata, Macbeth and Nabucco at the Staatsoper
and Maria Stuarda at the Deustche Oper in Berlin, La Straniera and
Moïse et Pharaon in Marseille, Macbeth in Copenaghen, Fidelio, Tosca,
Aida, Cenerentola, Les Pêcheurs de perles, La Forza del Destino,
Ernani, Die Zauberflöte and a Wagner Gala at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
in Liège, Roberto Devereux at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lucrezia Borgia
at the Munich Opera Festival and Il Turco in Italia at the Bayerische
Staatsoper, La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien, Don Giovanni
in Monte Carlo, Un Ballo in Maschera in Palermo, La Bohème at the
Terme di Caracalla in Rome, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria at the Théâtre des
Champs Elysées in Paris with the Orchestre National de France, I due Foscari
with Leo Nucci in Marseille. Future plans: Lucrezia Borgia at the
Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nabucco, L'Arlesiana
at Deutsche Oper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo;
La Bohème at the Grand Théâtre de Genève;
La Rondine in Toulouse; Boris Godunov, La Favorite, Lohengrin, Simon Boccanegra,
Rigoletto and a series of concerts in Marseille; revivals of Tosca
and Don Carlo in Dresden; Aida in Orange; Maria Stuarda in
Vienna. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct La Bohème, Turandot, Nabucco, Otello,
Mozart’s Requiem and a series of concerts.
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