Raffaella Lupinacci - Publia

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 then as Giovanna and Paggio 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. More recently 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 recently made her debut in the Circuito Lirico Lombardo singing in Rossini’s Tancredi (Tancredi and Isaura) and in Verdi’s Otello (Emilia). Raffaella Lupinacci has recently made her debut as Dorabella in Così fan Tutte in Vicenza.

Plans include: Nabucco (Fenena) for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo in Cremona, Brescia, Como, Pavia; La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

Sergio Vitale - Licinio

Recipient of various awards, Sergio Vitale has recently done his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro singing Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims.During 2010/2011 season Mr Vitale sang as soloist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. More recently Mr Vitale performed in Rigoletto at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Falstaff(title role) at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano. He recently took part in a Japanese tour with the Teatro alla Scala, singing Marullo in Rigoletto; then he has beenFigaro Il barbiere di Siviglia in Trento and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, then he participate in Falstaff in Amsterdam.

Among his future plans, it is worth mentioning Rigoletto at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.