Krystian Adam - Cavalier Giocondo

Much in demand for the 17^th and 18^th serio and buffo repertoire, Polish tenor Krystian Adam regularly works with many of the most important conductors of the ‘historically informed practice’.

Future plans: Mozart’s Idomeneo (under Marc Minkowski) and Le nozze di Figaro (under Antonio Pappano) at the Covent Garden; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner in Cambridge, Barcelona, Versailles and at the Salzburg Festival; L’Occasione fa il Ladro at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; Myslivecek’s L’Olimpiade with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks and Gluck’s Demofoonte (title role) with Complesso Barocco and Alan Curtis, both at the Theater an der Wien; Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis in Montecarlo with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi; Handel’s Giove in Argo with L’arte del mondo and Werner Ehrhardt for the Handel Festival in Halle; Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin and Munich and with Collegium 1704 in Dresden and Prague; Bach’s B-minor Mass at the Maggio Musicale in Florence under Stefano Montanari.

Mariangela Sicilia - Baronessa Aspasia

One of the most up-and-coming Italian sopranos of her generation, she won the Tito Schipa lyric contest in Lecce, making her debut as Adina in L’Elisir d’amore. Mariangela Sicilia was lately appreciated as Vivetta in Cilea’s L’Arlesiana both at the Wexford Festival Opera and at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi for the opening night of the season. Ms Sicilia also performed Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; L’Italiana in Algeri and La Donna del Lago at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Orfeo ed Euridice in New York; L’Elisir d’Amore in Madrid; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Ravenna and Tel Aviv (broadcast by the Italian National Television).

Future plans: L’Elisir d’Amore in Monte Carlo; La Bohème (Musetta) and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Opéra National de Paris; Guillaume Tell at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Battistelli’s Il Medico dei Pazzi (world première) in Nancy; Petite Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Alberto Zedda.

Biagio Pizzuti - Fabrizio

Young Italian baritone, he recently performed Schaunard in La Bohème and Grégorio in Roméo et Juliette under the baton of Fabio Luisi (recorded by Decca) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He sang Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Bologna and performed in Cléopatre at the Withsun Festival in Salzburg as a member of the Salzburg Young Singers Project under Vladimir Fedoseyev; he then appeared as Betto di Signa in Gianni Schicchi at the Theater and der Wien and was then involved in another production of the same opera at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. He recently sang Leporello in Don Giovanni in Maribor and Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore on tour in Italy for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo.

Future plans: Don Giovanni (Masetto) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Il Viaggio a Reims at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam; Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony in Catania.