Nicola Alaimo - Figaro

Following recent critically-acclaimed performances at the Salzburg Festival (Dandini, La Cenerentola), at the Rossini Opera Festival, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam (Guillaume Tell - title role), at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale - title role), at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio, cond. Riccardo Muti and Don Pasquale, cond. Bruno Campanella), in London (Belisario - title role, recorded by Opera Rara) at the Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola - Dandini, La Forza del Destino -Fra Melitone), at the Teatro Real de Madrid (Don Pasquale, cond. Riccardo Muti), Teatro Regio in Turin (Traviata, Giorgio Gérmont), at the Opéra de Monte Carlo (Stiffelio, Stankar, cond. Maurizio Benini), at the Metropolitan Opera (Falstaff, cond. James Levine, L’Elisir d’Amore, cond. Maurizio Benini), in Berlin (L’Elisir d’Amore) Nicola Alaimo adds another important role to his repertoire, singing in the humorous opera by Gioachino Rossini.

Future plans include:  Falstaff  at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in Marseille, Ravenna (and on tour in Italy); Luisa Miller in Liège; Le Nozze di Figaro in Los Angeles; Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona opposite Placido Domingo in the title role; L'Elisir d'Amore as Dottor Dulcamara in Naples; Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Don Quichotte at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, Yannis Kokkos directing; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris; La Traviata in London; Il Trovatore and Guillaume Tell in Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell on tour with the Opéra de Monte Carlo and in Paris. Mr. Alaimo will also star in Zaza concert and recording for Opera Rara in London and in other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Matteo Macchioni - Conte d’Almaviva

Young and promising artist he made his debut at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno as Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore under the baton of Daniel Oren, after that he performed Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Festival Internazionale in Stresa. Mr  Macchioni is finalist at the "Pavarotti international voice competition" (2008) and at the Toti Dal Monte Prize in Treviso (2012). He recorded for the label Sugar. Matteo Macchioni returns to Genoa where he performed in Le Nozze di Figaro and Il Barbiere di Siviglia then he starred in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

Plans include:  Adriana Lecouvreur at the As.Li.Co circuit in Italy and in Sassari.

Riccardo Zanellato - Don Basilio

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 and  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 of Bologna, in Barcelona, in Cincinnati and in St. Louis. Mr. Zanellato lately starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Poliuto, 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 di Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then performed Nabucco at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti conducting, La Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and again Nabucco in Stuttgart and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato has just sung Schubert’s Mass in A flat Major for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem at the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti and as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti.

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.