Mary-Ellen Nesi - Farnace

Acclaimed interpreter of baroque operas, Ms Nesi has performed more than 35 principal and title roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, A. Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Gluck, Paisiello, Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, Donizetti, Bellini, R. Strauss, Verdi, Humperdinck, Mascagni and contemporary composers. Ms. Nesi has performed with: Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit; Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis; Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone; Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Ivor Bolton; Ensemble Matheus/J-Chr. Spinosi; Washington Bach Consort/J.Reilly Lewis; Venice Baroque Orchestra/Andrea Marcon; Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis; Folies Francoises/P.Cohen Akenine; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris/J.Swensen; Al Ayre Espanol/E.Lopez Banzo; RTV Orchestra of Spain/M-A Gomez-Martinez; Camerata Stuttgart and all major Greek orchestras. She regularly collaborates with the Greek National Opera and performers in major musical institutions of Europe and America such as the Carnegie Hall, the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Theater an der Wien, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. She has just released her first solo album for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: a collection of Salve Regina by various Neapolitan composers of the eighteenth century with Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco.

Loriana Castellano - Tamiri

Winner of the A. Belli Competition 2010 in Spoleto and Toti dal Monte Competition in Treviso in 2012, she studied the Baroque repertoire with Edward Smith and Sara Mingardo at the Cappella della Pietà dai Turchini in Naples. Among her recent performances: Handel’s Alcina (Bradamante) with Le Parlement de Musique de Strasbourg and Martin Gester; Myslivecek’s Medonte with L’Arte del Mondo led and Werner Ehrhardt (recorded for Sony/DHM); Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans (Abra) in Braunschweig and Beaune with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Thierry Fischer in Utrecht; Catone in Utica at the Teatro an der Wien again with F.M.Sardelli, and more recently La Cenerentola (role title) in São Paulo , Il Matrimonio Segreto (Fidalma) in Treviso and Ferrara, La Traviata at the Opéra de Monte Carlo under Marco Armiliato. Future plans include: revivals of Il Matrimonio Segreto in Rovigo; La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Clarina) in Ingolstadt; La Betulia Liberata (Carmi) in Wroclaw; Don Giovanni (Zerlina) in Monte Carlo; Schubert’s Mass in A flat and Kraus’ Funeral Cantata with Werner Ehrhardt and L’Arte del Mondo in Berlin (Berliner Philharmonie).

Roberta Mameli - Gilade

A Specialist of Baroque music, she has a repertoire that goes up to the twentieth century. Among her recent performances, it is worth mentioning: Handel’s Athalia (Josabeth) with Capella Cracoviensis and Paul Goodwin in Krakow; Vivaldi’s Teuzzone (Cino) with Le Concert de Nations and Jordi Savall in Versailles (recorded for Naïve); Il Novello Giasone (Isifile) by Cavalli/Stradella at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca; Mozart’s Requiem under Christopher Hogwood at the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa; Così fan tutte (Dorabella) under Ryo Terakado in Tokyo; Handel’s Deidamia (Nerea) in Vienna and in Braunschweig, Handel’s Ariodante (Ginevra) in Turin and Bucharest, Handel’s Orlando (Angelica) in Versailles, all of them with Il Complesso Barocco and Alan Curtis; Handel’s Agrippina (Poppea) and Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso (1714) (world premiere) at the Festival de Beaune with Modo Antiquo and Sardelli; concerts with La Venexiana in Halle (Händelfestspiele), Gdańsk, Wroclaw, Krakow, Espinho, Korkyra and Bologna. In the season 2012/2013 she is successfully singing a whole run of performances of Agrippina (Poppea) at the Kiel Opera, under Ruben Dubrovsky. Future plans: Vivaldi’s L’incoronazione di Dario with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice) with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli at the Festival de Beaune; Messiah with Collegium 1704 in Prague; Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) in Tokyo; Serse (Atalanta) with Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Dortmund; Handel’s Giove in Argo (Iside) at the Handel Festival in Halle with L’arte del mondo and Werner Ehrhardt; Haydn’s The Creation with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast.