
Raffaella Lupinacci - Donna Elvira (role debut)
Young up-and-coming Italian mezzo, Raffaella Lupinacci is a prizewinner of the 2013
AsLiCo Competition. Ms. Lupinacci made her operatic debut in 2011 as Tisbe in Rossini’s Cenerentola
and in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Teatro “A. Rendano” in Cosenza. She
attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro in 2012, making her debut as Marchesa
Melibea in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. She was reinvited in Pesaro
in 2013 for L’Italiana in Algeri. She sang: Mary in Der Fliegende
Hollaender for the AsLiCo Opera Domani project, which toured many theaters
in Northern Italy; Maometto II (Calbo) on tour in Switzerland;
Rossini’s Otello and a Verdi Gala in Antwerp; Rossini’s Petite
Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Alberto Zedda. She made her
debut in the Circuito Lirico Lombardo singing in Rossini’s Tancredi (Tancredi
and Isaura) and in Verdi’s Otello (Emilia) in Antwerp. Raffaella Lupinacci
debuted as Dorabella in Così fan Tutte in Vicenza and starred in Aureliano
in Palmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Ms. Lupinacci recently
made her debut as Curra in La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio
in Parma and starred as Fenena in Nabucco in Cremona, Como, Pavia, Brescia.
Plans include Don Giovanni at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and La
Gazzetta at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
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Blagoj Nacoski - Don Ottavio*
Appreciated for his elegant singing style, he is becoming one of the most interesting
voice for Mozart repertoire of his generation. After making his debut in Lucia di
Lammermoor at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, he was Don Ottavio beside
Renato Bruson in Don Giovanni in Miskolc. Important collaborations in prestigious
theaters and Festivals followed, he sang in: Regio in Parma, La Fenice in Venice,
Alighieri in Ravenna, Zurich Opernhaus, Frankfurt Oper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théatre
Royal de la Monnaie di Bruxelles, Seattle Opera, Canadian Opera Company in Toronto,
Teatro Bunka Kaikan, New National Theater and Suntory Hall di Tokyo, Opéra in Skopje,
Opera in Warsaw, Opéra in Limoges, Gran Theatre in Aix-En-Provence, Salzburg Festival,
Miskolc Opera Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival. His repertoire include operas by
Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Britten. He recorded for TDK, Dynamic, MR Classics. Recently
performed: Falstaff (Fenton) in Saõ Paulo; Così Fan Tutte (Ferrando)
in Vilnius; Don Giovanni in Skopje then on tour in Bangkok; Il Re Pastore
in Trieste.
Plans include: Turandot (Pong) at the Teatro alla Scala
in Milan.
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