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Riccardo Zanellato - bass
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 performed Verdi’s Requiem in
Naples under the baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, 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 in Zurich and Macbeth in Lyon, Banco is the role
he also sang for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson), La
Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius, Nabuccoin
Florence, Stuttgart and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato starred Schubert’s Mass in A
flat for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo
Muti and Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna, at the Ravenna Festival then
on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti while in Minnesota under the baton
of Roberto Abbado. He sang Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg
Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Giorgio
in Bellini’s I Puritani in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in
Dresden, Timur in Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and
a Gala concert for the 5th Anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House in China.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in
Stuttgart; Aida in Valencia; Norma at the Théâtre des
Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at the Teatro alla Scala
in Milan; Macbeth and Attila (title role) at the
Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence; La Bohème
and Norma in Turin. Mr. Zanellato will sing
again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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