Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor

Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège

Paolo Arrivabeni is regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Fenice in Venice, Staatsoper in Vienna, Opernhaus in Leipzig and Zurich, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Grand Théâtre in Genève, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Semperoper in Dresden, Maestranza in Sevilla, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Opéra in Monte Carlo and many others. Paolo Arrivabeni was guest also at the Opera Festival in Savonlinna (Finland), at the Opera Festival in Macerata (Italy) and at the Santa Fe Opera Festival (New Mexico). An expert of Italian Opera he is particularly interested also in great Russian and German composers; in the past seasons he had indeed conducted operas by Mahler, Strauss and Musorgskij. M° Arrivabeni has just gained great success conducting La Favorite at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and Traviata in Dresden

Future plans: Il Turco in Italia and revivals of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Macbeth in Dresden and Copenhagen; La Straniera, Moïse et Pharaon and Petite Messe Solennelle in Marseille; Il Trovatore at the Macerata Opera Festival; Macbeth and Maria Stuarda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct: I Due Foscari, Fidelio, Aida, La Cenerentola, Tosca, Les Pécheurs de Perles, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, Turandot and a series of concerts including a Wagnerian gala.

Luciano Montanaro - Il Padre Guardiano

Italian Bass Luciano Montanaro gained great success in Aida at the Terme of Caracalla in Rome under the baton of Placido Domingo, as Monterone in Rigoletto at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome under Bruno Campanella and in Monte Carlo, Madama Butterfly in Toulouse and Turin, and in Don Carlo in Modena. At the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège Mr. Montanaro had already starred among others in Otello, in La Fanciulla del West, and in Il Trovatore.