Marcello Giordani - Calaf*

An extraordinarily versatile artist, Marcello Giordani has a repertory which encompasses a wide and diverse range of roles, spanning from the Bel Canto operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini and the lyricism of French operatic repertoire, to the more dramatic roles of Verdi, Puccini and Berlioz and, most recently, the popular Verismo operas of Mascagni and Leoncavallo: Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci. Mr. Giordani has established his international career, performing regularly on the world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses including Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan, Covent Garden in London, Opernhaus in Zürich, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Liceu in Barcelona, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Massimo “V. Bellini” in Catania, Arena di Verona, Festival Pucciniano in Torre del Lago, working with the world’s leading conductors including Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano and Georg Solti.

Future plans include: Carmen in Dresden; Tosca in New York, Munich and Vienna; Un Ballo in Maschera in Hamburg; Turandot in Bilbao. On the concert side Mr Giordani will perform a series of concerts in Toronto,  London (Wigmore Hall) and Tokyo.

Gregory Bonfatti - Pang

Won the "A. Belli "in Spoleto '91 and made his debut as Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) with Bruno Aprea starting an intense activity that led him to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale, the Paris Opéra, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Gregory Bonfatti is in high demand for the funny roles such as Dr. Cajus in Falstaff, Arlecchino in Pagliacci, and Goro in Madama Butterfly (engraved by EMI with Antonio Pappano). He collaborated with prestigious conductor such as: Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Maurizio Benini, Gabriele Ferro, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Paolo Arrivabeni, Zoltan Pesko and Vladimir Jurowski.

Future plans include: Manon Lescaut and Le Nozze di Figaro in Toulouse.

Pinchas Steinberg - conductor

Critically acclaimed for his profound and deeply musical interpretations of the most demanding repertoire, both opera and symphonic, Pinchas Steinberg is one of the leading conductors  performing today. Mr. Steinberg has distinguished himself for many years as a regular guest of the most prestigious opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe, and more recently in the United States. Recent opera engagements include new productions of Puccini's Turandot and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; a new production of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Opera Bastille in Paris and at Teatro Real in Madrid; a new production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Turin. In February 2010 he made his debut at La Scala conducting three concerts with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Schumann's Faust Szenen. Mr Steinberg opened the 2011/12 season at the Opera Bastille Paris with Strauss' Salome and he returned in Turin where he conducted Die Erste Walpurgisnacht. Last season he conducted: Andrea Chénier and Aida in Vienna, Madama Butterfly in Rome, Tosca in Amsterdam and Rienzi in Toulouse, la Fanciulla del West in Monte- Carlo, Elektra and a series of concerts in Marseille, Tristan und Isolde in Helsinki, Attila in Berlin. Recent concert engagements include concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, Toscanini Orchestra Parma, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Prague, among many others.

Future plans include his return to the Teatro Regio in Turin conducting Turandot and Madama Butterfly and a series of concerts in Copenhagen and Hamburg.