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Gianluca Buratto - Sir Giorgio
A noble and round voice, Gianluca Buratto is rapidly establishing himself as one
of his most versatile basses of his generation. At the beginning of his career he
performed: Bach’s B minor Mass with Savall in Madrid and Barcelona,
both Mozart and Jommelli’s Betulia liberata with Muti in Salzburg
and Ravenna and in Wroclaw under Rovaris; Mercadante’s Virginia and La
Bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival; Ambrosini’s Il Killer di Parole (world
premiere), La Bohème and Rigoletto in Venice;
Mozart’s Mass in C minor KV 427 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia in Rome with Nagano; Bach’s Johannes-Passion with Lopez-Banzo
in Spain and Germany; Macbeth with Muti at the Salzburg Festival,
Rome and Chicago; Solbiati’s La Leggenda (world première) in Turin
with Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in Barcelona with Rousset; L’Incoronazione
di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; La Bohème (under
the baton of Chailly) and I Due Foscari in Valencia; Macbeth at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican
City, in Naples and Milan (where the concerts were recorded by Decca); Rigoletto in
Genoa under Luisi; Handel’s Rinaldo and Admeto at
the Theater an der Wien; Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze in
Florence; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Rousset and Les Talens
Lyriques in Nancy and Paris; La Bohème at the Terme di Caracalla
in Rome and in Amsterdam.
Future plans: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Caronte and Plutone) and Vespro
della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner
on tour in the Unites States (New York, San Francisco, Washington, Costa Mesa, Chapel
Hill) and then in London (BBC Proms) and Versailles; Rigoletto at
the Festival Internacional de Musica de Bogotà and at the Sferisterio Opera Festival
in Macerata; Die Zauberflöte in Liège and in Charleroi; Le
Duc d’Albe in London for Opera Rara; La Bohème in
Palermo; Turandot in Montpellier; I Due Foscari in
Amsterdam. Gianluca Buratto will sing again Mysterium at the Teatro
Petruzzelli in Bari.
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Riccardo Zanellato - Sir Giorgio*
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, Nabucco, 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
in Bologna, in Barcelona, in Cincinnati and in St. Louis. Mr. Zanellato lately starred
in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro
alla Scala, Poliuto and La Bohème at the Opernhaus
in Zurich and Macbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco
in Macbeth for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season of
the Comunale in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then performed La Juive and
a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and Nabucco in Stuttgart and
Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato sang Schubert’s Mass in A flat for his debut
at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem at
the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti. He starred
as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides
Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Verdi’s Requiem in
Vienna, Muti conducting.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in Stuttagart;
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 and at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Mr Zanellato
will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Orchestra
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (under Daniele Gatti) and the Minnesota Orchestra.
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