Riccardo Zanellato - Ferrando
Riccardo Zanellato’s career has led him to become one of the reference artists for
the most important bass roles . Regularly invited by Riccardo Muti for many productions
at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (among others, Iphigénie en Aulide, Moïse
et Pharaon, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra), he collaborates
with such institutions as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin,
the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Verdi Festival in Parma,
the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Liceu in Barcelona, the Nederlandse
Opera in Amsterdam, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Opéra de Lausanne
and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Mr. Zanellato recently sang Verdi’s Requiem in
Naples under the baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, in Portorico, in
Cagliari, in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival on tour with the Teatro Comunale
of Bologna, in Barcelona, in Cincinnati and in St. Louis. Mr. Zanellato lately starred
in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro
alla Scala in Milan, Poliuto, La Bohème at the Opernhaus
in Zurich andMacbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco
in Macbeth for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season of
the Comunale di Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then performed Nabucco at
the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti conducting, La Juive and
a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and again Nabucco in Stuttgart
and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato has just sung Schubert’s Mass in A flat Major for
his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem at the Ravenna Festival
and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in
Nancy and Stuttgart; Simon Boccanegra in Dresden; Norma at
the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at the Teatro
alla Scala in Milan; Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
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