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Riccardo Zanellato - bass
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, Nabucco, 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 in Bologna,
in Barcelona, in Cincinnati and in St. Louis. Mr. Zanellato lately starred in Luisa
Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro alla Scala, Poliuto and 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 in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then
performed La Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and Nabucco in
Florence, Stuttgart and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato sang Schubert’s Mass in A flat for
his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem at
the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti. He
starred as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides
Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Verdi’s Requiem in
Vienna, Muti conducting. At the Opera di Firenze he just sang Giorgio in
Bellini’s I Puritani.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in Stuttgart; Simon
Boccanegra in Dresden; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in
Paris; Il Trovatore at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Macbeth at
the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples and at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Mr. Zanellato will sing again
Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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