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Nino Surguladze - Carmen
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 andCarmen (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 also starred
as Maddalena in the opera movie Rigoletto, beside Placido Domingo in the
title role. After her great success as Amneris in Aida at the Opéra Royal
de Wallonie in Liège, Nino Surguladze recently made her debut in the verismo’s
repertoire in Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana as Santuzza in Avignon.
Plans include: Carmen in
Sassari; Aida in Bergen; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional
de musica de Bogotà; Luisa Miller at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La
Damnation de Faust at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Aids Gala
Concert in Bonn, Rani Calderon conducting.
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Gezim Myshketa - Escamillo
Young Albanian baritone Gezim Myshketa is one of the most promising artists of
his generation. After his debut as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, he won
the AsLiCo competition in 2006 (making his role debut as both Don Giovanni and
Leporello in Don Giovanni) and the "Francesco Paolo Tosti" Competition in
Ortona in 2008. Interesting collaborations have followed with prestigious
theaters and festivals, such as: Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Palm Beach Opera,
Abao Olbe in Bilbao, Opéra de Montpellier, Filarmonico in Verona, Verdi in
Trieste, Regio in Parma, Withsun Festival in Salzburg and Macerata Opera
Festival.
Mr. Myshketa
added important roles to his repertoire: Rolando in La Battaglia di Legnano at
the Festival Verdi in Parma and Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in
Treviso and Ferrara. He also sang: Cléopâtre at the Salzburg Festival; Le
Convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali (Biscroma) and I Pazzi per Progetto (Venanzio)
in Zurich, Paolo Carignani conducting; Alì Pascha von Janina in Tirana; L’Elisir
d’Amore (Belcore) and Maria Stuarda besides Mariella Devia at the
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Lucia di Lammermoor in Marseille.
Mr. Myshketa just enjoyed great success as Ford in Falstaff in Stuttgart,
thus starting a prolific collaboration with the Staatstheater Stuttgart where he
will sing, as a returning guest, in La Traviata, Falstaff, La Bohème, Carmen and I
Puritani. Among other future plans: Turandot in Toulouse and
Cagliari; Don Giovanni (title role) in a new production by Graham Vick
for the AsLiCo circuit and on tour also in Jesi, Fermo, Parma and Bolzano; Simon
Boccanegra (Paolo Albiani) in Antwerp; La Traviata in Hamburg;
concerts and recording of Il Viaggio a Reims (Don Alvaro) at the
Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad.
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Opera Theater
Seoul
June 6th, 2014
June 8th
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