Veronica Cangemi - soprano

Born in Mendoza (Argentina), Veronica Cangemi is one of the most versatile sopranos on the music scene today. Much in demand in both the baroque and classical repertoire, she performed in operas by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck and Haydn. She regularly collaborated with conductors as Claudio Abbado, Giovanni Antonini, Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Andreas Spering, Adam Fischer, Marek Janowski.

Among her recent engagements: Handel’s Orlando (Dorinda) with Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Toulouse, Versailles and Rennes; Carmen (Micaëla) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London under Daniel Oren; Idomeneo (Ilia) at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; several concerts throughout Europe

Plans include: a baroque concert with Il Pomo D’oro and Riccardo Minasi in Bremen; Nedda in Pagliacci and Morgana in Alcina in Dresden; Serse (Atalanta) with Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Budapest and Barcelona; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Istanbul; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Warsaw Philharmonic in Warsaw.

Lisandro Abadie - bass

Born in Buenos Aires, Lisandro Abadie graduated in singing from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and from the Musikhochschule Luzern. Among Lisandro Abadie’s engagement, it is worth mentioning: Handel’s Theodora and Belshazzar at the London Handel Festival, Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Laurence Cummings as well as Siroe at the International Handel Festival in Göttingen. He appears in numerous concert tours and recordings with Les Arts Florissants (Handel Anthems, Airs sérieux with William Christie, complete Monteverdi madrigals with Paul Agnew), in operas conducted by Facundo Agudin (Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro), Alan Curtis (Orlando), Jonathan Cohen (La descente d’Orphée) and in numerous CD-recordings with Anthony Rooley, Fabio Bonizzoni and Václav Luks. In 2014 he appeared in Handel’s Riccardo Primo in Karlsruhe (new production by Benjamin Lazar) and tours with Les Arts Florissants, Orchestre Musique des Lumières, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Capriccio Stravagante and Collegium 1704, in Rigoletto in Amsterdam and in Handel’s Theodora (Valens) in Gottingen. He took part in the Accademia Monteverdiana under John Eliot Gardiner for the second consecutive year.

Plans include amongst the other Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with in Genève; Bach’s  Cantatas in Assen, Deventer, Dresden; Fauré’s Requiem in Zurich; Dido&Aeneas in Prague; Johannes Passion in Langnau and Zurich; Matthäus-Passion on an Holland Tour; Handel ‘s Orlando in Zaragoza.