Aquiles Machado - Pinkerton

Internationally sought-after tenor Aquiles Machado recently performed: Tosca in Leipzig, at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); Carmen, Un Ballo in Maschera, Faust in Las Palmas; Simon Boccanegra in Zurich and more recently in Las Palmas opposite Leo Nucci; Madama Butterfly in Torre del Lago and Vienna; La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly conducting, in Rome (Caracalla) and Dresden; Norma in Bologna; Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; La Traviata in Oviedo, Valencia and Florence, both under Zubin Mehta; Roméo et Juliette in Liège; Carmen in Bilbao and in Minorca; I Due Foscari in Toulouse and in Barcelona (concert version opposite Placido Domingo); Cavalleria Rusticana in Pamplona; Madama Butterfly and Carmen in St.Petersburg; Tosca in Cagliari (Gianluigi Gelmetti conducting), in Torre del Lago and at Opera in Rome (Donato Renzetti conducting); Don Carlo and La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; Rigoletto in Pamplona; Un Ballo in Maschera with the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra and Zubin Mehta; La forza del Destino at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Paolo Arrivabeni conducting; La Vida Breve in Cincinnati. Aquiles Machado performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna, then on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti, in Cincinnati and St. Louis under Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, at the Gewandhaus Leipzig under Anthony Bramall and more recently in Trento and Bolzano with the Haydn Orchestra, he also sang series of gala concerts in Tokyo.

Plans include: Werther (title role), La Forza del Destino (Don Alvaro) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Bilbao; concerts at the Teatro Regio in Parma and in Saarbrücken.

Riccardo Zanellato - Ramfis

One of the most appreciated basses of our time, Riccardo Zanellato recently gained great successes as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Among his most notable past engagements: Bellini’s I Puritani and Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in Dresden, Turandot at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, La Bohème and Norma at Teatro Regio in Turin, Norma in Paris (Theatre des Champs-Elysées), Macbeth (R. Abbado/R. Wilson) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and a Gala concert for the 5^th Anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House in China. Riccardo Zanellato just made his debut in Attila (title role) for the season's opening night of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Michele Mariotti conducting and Daniele Abbado directing. He then 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, Banco in Macbeth in Tel Aviv, Bruckner’s Te Deum in Bari, Claus Peter Flor conducting and Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony at the Festival de St. Denis, Michele Mariotti conducting. Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Norma at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, under Andriy Yurkevych; a new production of Don Carlo (Filippo II) in Leipzig and at 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, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischer Rundfunks in Munich under the baton of Riccardo Muti and in Genoa; Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit; Messa per Rossini at Teatro alla Scala in Milan; a concert gala in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Muti.