Marina Comparato - Mrs. Meg Page

Marina Comparato made her debut in 1996 as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia in London as well as in R. Strauss' Elektra at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, starting a career that brought her to prestigious theatres and festival such as: La Scala in Milan, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, San Carlo in Naples, Opéra National de Paris, Opera de Montpellier, Théâtre du Chatelet, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp , Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Frankfurt Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Glyndebourne Festival and Salzburg Festival. Mrs. Comparato collaborated with conductors such as: Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Ottavio Dantone, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Reneé Jacobs, Zubin Mehta, Mark Minkowski, Kent Nagano, Daniel Oren, Trevor Pinnock, Carlo Rizzi, Christophe Rousset, Jeffrey Tate.

Plans: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) in Gozo, Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; Cecilio in Lucio Silla at the Teatro Real de Madrid.

Enkelejda Shkoza - Mrs. Quickly

Winner of the International Competition "Lejla Gencer" in Istanbul, she rapidly established herself as a regular guest in important theatres and festival such as: Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro Regio in Turin, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden in London, Real in Madrid, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wiener Staatsoper, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Canadian Opera Company, and opera theatres in Leipzig, Dresden, Bilbao, Lisbon. Enkelejda Shkosa has collaborated with such conductors as Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Colin Davis, Daniele Gatti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano, Evelino Pidò, Donato Renzetti, Marcello Viotti, only to name a few.

Plans: Verdi’s Requiem at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos; Azucena in Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata and at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino in Tel Aviv; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Real de Madrid.

Annunziata Vestri - Mrs. Meg Page*

An eclectic artist with bold acting qualities, she can boast a huge repertoire that spans from Bel Canto to Verdi and Puccini’s masterpieces. Mrs. Vestri regularly collaborates with theaters as: Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, San Carlo in Naples, Opéra de Montecarlo, Teatro Regio in Parma, Wexford Festival Opera, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.

Plans: La Cenerentola at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Suor Angelica at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra the Monte Carlo, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, at the Opéra in Marseille and at the Grand Theatre de la Ville in Louxembourg. As returning guest at the Opéra in Marseille, Ms. Vestri will sing Maddalena in Rigoletto.

Stefano Antonucci - Ford*

Mr. Antonucci distinguishes himself thanks to his lovely, elegant tone and his deep portrayal of the characters he sings; he appeared in several prestigious opera houses, such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, as well as opera houses in Berlin, Lyon, Vienna, Paris, Munich, Monte-Carlo and St. Petersburg, collaborating with such conductors as Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Alain Guingal, Lorin Maazel, Stefano Ranzani, Donato Renzetti, George Solti.

Plans: title role in Simon Boccanegra in Rovigo and Madama Butterfly (Sharpless) at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome.

Antonio Poli - Fenton

Young and telented Italian tenor, Antonio Poli praises an International carrer thet broght him to sing in prestiogious theatres such as : Teatro alla Scala, ROH Covent Garden and Wigmore Hall in London, Real in Madrid, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Salzburg Festival just to name a few, working with conductor as Yves Abel, Ivor Bolton, Bertrand de Billy, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Sir Andrew Davis, Daniel Harding, Mark Elder, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Donato Renzetti.

Plans: Alfredo in La Traviata and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Damiano Michieletto directing) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Alfredo in La Traviata at the Staatsoper Berlin; his debuts as Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Leipzig and as Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Chicago.