Rudy Park - Radames

Particularly appreciated in the Verdi  and Verismo repertoire, he made his debut as Calaf (Turandot) in 2008 in Italy, after studying at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He then furthered his studies in Italy and Germany. Among his past successes, it is worth mentioning: Tosca (Verona-teatro Filarmonico, Torre del Lago, Genoa); Turandot  (Michigan Opera, Bogotà, Detroit, Nancy, Cagliari); Ernani (Bologna then on tour in Japan); Cavalleria Rusticana, Trovatore, I Vespri Siciliani (Athens); Turandot (Genoa, Skopje); Norma (Budapest); Cavalleria Rusticana (Las Palmas, Palermo) . In 2011 Mr. Park made his debut at the Nikikai Opera Foundation as Calaf in Turandot under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. Recently he obtained a great success as Radames in Aida in Liege and Skopje and he made his debut as Otello at the Korea National Opera in Seoul, role he sang also in Las Palmas;Tosca in Athens; Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Turandot and Tosca at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago; Tosca at the Opera Sanxay.

Plans:  Turandot  in Las Palmas, Bari and in Montpellier where he will also star in Il Tabarro.

Patrick Fournillier - conductor

Invited by the major opera houses as an expert in Italian and French operatic repertoire, he performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Dresden Semperoper, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, the Washington National Opera, often collaborating with Placido Domingo. M° Fournillier received the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of French opera arias with Natalie Dessay and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo. During his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, he linked his name to the Verdi celebrations in 2001. Patrick Fournillier conducted: Don Pasquale at the Norske Opera in Oslo; Carmen, Les pêcheurs de perles at the Zurich Opernhaus and Manon Lescaut at the Semperoper in Dresden. As returning guest at the San Francisco Opera Patrick Fournillier gained great success conducting Alfano’s Cyrano and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman, while more recently he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Palm Beach, Les Pêcheures de perles at the Teatro Regio in Parma, then on tour in Modena; Thaïs and a symphonic concert in Los Angeles; L’Etoile in Amsterdam; Giselle at La Scala in Milan.

Future plans: Thaïs in Helsinki; Manon in Bilbao; Giselle at the La Scala in Milan.