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Maria Pia Piscitelli - Lady Macbeth
Maria Pia Piscitelli is regular guest in the most important theatres and concert
halls in Italy and abroad, such as: Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro la Fenice in Venice,
Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Deutsche Oper
in Berlin, Staatsoper in Hamburg, Opéra de Paris, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam,
Liceu in Barcelona, San Francisco Opera, Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal
in Santiago de Chile, Nikikai Opera Foundation in Tokyo, Beijing Opera. Amongst
her recent successes it is worth mentioning Norma (concert version) at the
Wiener Staatsoper; Macbeth at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava;
Pagliacci at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro
at the Beijing Opera and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni
at the Hamburg Staatsoper. Mrs. Piscitelli collaborated with prestigious conductors
as Yves Abel, Marco Armiliato, Paolo Arrivabeni, Maurizio Benini, Daniele Gatti,
Gianluigi Gelmetti, Evelino Pidò, Jordi Savall, Alberto Zedda and directors such
as Hugo De Ana, Gilbert Deflo, Dario Fo, Yannis Kokkos, Denis Krief, Damiano Michieletto,
George Miller, Elijah Moshinsky, Pier Luigi Pier’Alli, Luca Ronconi, Federico Tiezzi,
Franco Zeffirelli.
Plans include Simon Boccanegra in Vienna; Manon Lescaut at
Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; and a series of concerts in Tokyo and in Taiwan.
Mrs Piscitelli will return to Tel Aviv singing Norma.
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Riccardo Zanellato - Banco
One of the most appreciated bass of our time, Riccardo Zanellato recently gained
great successes as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides
Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti, Bellini’s I Puritani and Lucia di Lammermoor
in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in Dresden, Turandot at the Teatro
San Carlo in Naples, La Bohème and Norma at the Teatro Regio in Turin,Norma
in Paris, revivals of Macbeth ( R. Abbado/R. Wilson) at the Teatro Comunale
in Bologna and a Gala concert for the 5th Anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House
in China. Riccardo Zanellato recently made his debut in Attila (title role)
for the opening night of the season at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Michele Mariotti
conducting and Daniele Abbado directing then he sang Sparafucile in Rigoletto
at La Scala in Milan, Ramfis in Aida at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
in Valencia, David McVicar directing, Zaccaria in Nabucco in Kiel and Bruckner’s
Te Deum in Bari, Claus Peter Flor conducting.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Aida in Naples (Pinchas Steinberg
conducting); Norma at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw; new production
of Don Carlo in Leipzig and at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Nabucco
in Stuttgart. Mr. Zanellato will sing Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner
Philharmoniker in Berlin under the baton of Riccardo Chailly and with the Symphonieorchester
des Bayerischer Rundfunks in Munich under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony in St. Denis under the baton of Michele Mariotti with the
Orchestre National de France; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Tanglewood; concert
gala in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo
Muti.
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