Massimiliano Pisapia - Radamès (March 25^th,27^th,30^th,April 2^nd,5^th)

Specialist of Italian repertoire, Mr. Pisapia lately performed Poliuto in Marseille and Zurich , La Traviata in Lecce, Macbeth at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Rigoletto in Palermo , Tosca in Atlanta, La Bohème, I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, Madama Butterfly and Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg. Active also on the concert side, he recently sang Dvorak's Stabat Mater in Trieste, a lyric concert at the Teatro Regio in Turin, a recital at the Suntury Hall in Tokyo, and Verdi’s Requiemin Moscow, St. Gallen and Hamburg. After that, he performed at the Aids Gala Concert in Berlin, Donald Runnicles conducting, in Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Pinchas Steinberg conducting and in Tosca at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

Future plans: Aida in Bergen; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de Musica de Bogotà and various concerts in Germany and in Japan.

Nino Surguladze - Amneris (March 25^th, 27^th, 30^th, April 2^nd, 5^th)

Georgian born Nino Surguladze is one of the most interesting artist of her generation. After attending Accademia alla Scala she has already sung in world’s premier opera stages such as Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Arena in Verona, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, Glyndebourne Festival, Salzburg Festival, Teatro Real in Madrid, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in Turin and in Parma, collaborating with such conductors as Muti, Plasson, Harding, Gergiev. Ms. Surguladze lately sang Sinaïde in Moïse et Pharaon (cond. Muti) at the Salzburg Festival and in Rome; Dorabella in Così fan Tutte and Carmen (title role) in Tokyo; Carmen in San Diego and St. Petersburg; Olga in Evgenij Onegin in Chicago. Mrs. Surguladze just starred as Maddalena in Rigoletto in Cologne and Genoa under Fabio Luisi; Fenena in Nabucco at La Scala in Milan and Olga in Evgenij Onegin at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette at the Arena in Verona. Nino Surguladze starred as Maddalena in the opera movie Rigoletto, beside Placido Domingo in the title role. Plans include: Carmen in Seoul and Sassari; Aida in Bergen; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de musica de Bogotà.

Rudi Park - Radamès (March 26^th, 28^th, April 1^st, 4^th, 11^th)

Particularly appreciated in the Verdi and Verismo repertoire, he made his debut as Calaf (Turandot) in 2008 in Italy, after studying at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He then furthered his studies in Italy and Germany. Among his past successes, it is worth mentioning: Tosca at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago; Ernani at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (and then on tour in Japan) and more recently at the Teatro Comunale in Sassari and for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Cremona, Como, Pavia and Brescia); Cavalleria Rusticana and Trovatore in Athens; Turandot in Genoa and Skopje; Norma in Budapest. In 2011 Mr. Park made his debut at the Nikikai Opera Foundation as Calaf in Turandot under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. More recently he starred as Arrigo in I Vespri Siciliani in Athens, as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in Las Palmas and Sassari, and again as Calaf in Turandot in Nancy. Mr Park participated in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro alla Scala.

Plans include: Turandot in Detroit, Skopje and Bogotà; Otello in Athens and Seoul.

Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor

Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals, Paolo Arrivabeni is an expert of Italian Operas particularly interested also in great Russian and German composers; in the past seasons he had indeed conducted works by Mahler, Strauss and Musorgskij. M° Arrivabeni recently conducted La Favorite at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Traviata and Macbeth in Dresden, La Forza del Destino and a Wagnerian Gala in Liège, Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Macbeth and Nabucco at the Staatsoper in Berlin, La Straniera in Marseille, Macbeth in Copenaghen.

Future plans: Il Turco in Italia and revivals of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Maria Stuarda and Nabucco at the Staatsoper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien; Don Giovanni in Monte- Carlo; La Forza del Destino at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Rondine in Toulouse; Moïse et Pharaon, Boris Godunov and I Due Foscari in Marseille; Don Carlo in Dresden; and Roberto Devereux at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct La Cenerentola, Tosca, Les Pécheurs de Perles, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, La Bohème, Turandot, Nabucco, Otello.