Adriana Di Paola – Maddalena (Role debut)

Winner of Santa Chiara Contest in Naples, she debuted at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, after that she was invited in Valencia where at the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia is starred in Le nozze di Figaro and Ariadne auf Naxos, Andrew Davis conducting. She sang also Ninetta in I Vespri Siciliani at the Festival Verdi (2010) in Parma, where she also starred as Curra in La Forza del Destino under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. On the concert side she performed Die Schöpfung by Haydn at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek; Der Kronungsmesse with Omer Meir Wellber again in Valencia; Brahms’ Alto Raphsody and the Debussy’s Demoiselle élue in Cagliari; La Petite Messe Solennelle in Rome. Last summer she took part at the Young Project Artists at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang in Der Zauberfloete, Carmen and Giulio Cesare and where she gained great success singing the closing recital of the Project. Plans include: Otello in Valencia; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in San Sebastian.

Palau de les Arts
Reina Sofia

Valencia

2012

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November 24*

Paata Burchuladze - Sparafucile

The acclaimed debut at ROH Covent Garden in Aida conducted by Zubin Mehta, alongside Katia Ricciarelli and Luciano Pavarotti, marks the beginning of a brilliant international career that saw him as a guest of top musical institutions such as: the Teatro alla Scala (Nabucco, Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth ), the Wiener Staatsoper (Luisa Miller, Boris Godunov, Khovanshcina), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Boris Godunov, Don Carlos, Macbeth, Aida), Opera Bastille in Paris (Faust, Nabucco), the San Francisco Opera (Prince Igor, Aida), the Metropolitan Opera (Boris Godunov, Don Giovanni, Aida, Khovanshcina). He recorded for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Philips. Plans include: Don Carlo at the Teatro Regio in Turin and at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.

Sergio Vitale - Marullo

Sergio Vitale is a recipient of various awards including first prize at the International Contest “Comunità Europea“ at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, and at the Lyric Contest “Premio Mattia Battistini“ in Rieti. After that he made his debut as Giorgio Gérmont in La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and he perform as Don Giovanni (title role), Daniel Oren conducting, in Salerno, as Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore in Zaragoza, as Gianni Schicchi (title role) at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, as Marcello in La Bohème in Lucca and then on tour in Ravenna, Pisa and Livorno, as Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Savona, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Cesena, as Schaunard in La Bohème at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly in Spoleto. Plans include Ford in Falstaff in Fano.

Zyan Atfeh - Conte di Monterone*

Born in Damascus, he was trained under the guidance of Mirella Freni and Nicolai Ghiaurov who defined him one of the best CUBEC students. Emerging bass, he performed such roles as: Schmidt in Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni for the AS.LI.CO circuit in Italy; the King in Aida at the Festival of Narni, Verdi’s Requiem at the Opera in Rome, Zuniga in Carmen and Geronte di Ravoir in Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Comunale in Modena and in Piacenza; La Voce in Idomeneo at the Stresa Festival under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, Leo ne in Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma. More recently he performed La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio in Parma under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti; Beethoven's Symphony n.9 in Lecce; Rigoletto (Conte di Monterone) at the Teatro Regio in Turin; La Traviata and Nabucco at the Arena di Verona; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Roméo et Juliette in Piacenza, Bolzano and Modena; Falstaff at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.