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Valentina Di Cola (Mezzo)
specialized
in Early Music, deepened her knowledge of genres, techniques, styles and
repertoire under the guide of Matelda Viola. Her vast concert activity includes:
Bach’s cantata Wachet auf and Magnificat in D major, BWV 243;
Perosi’s Messa Cerviana; Boccherini’s Stabat Mater; Fauré’s
Messe Basse; Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G major; Bellini’s Mass in A
minor; Britten’s Les Illuminations op.18; Schumann’s Frauenliebe
und Leben; Wagner’s Fünf Gegichte von Mathilde Wesendonk; Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater; Verdi’s Requiem; Beethoven’s 9th
Symphony; and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and numerous Mozart’s
compositions. Operatic roles
include: Pergolesi’s Il Maestro di Musica (Lauretta) and La Contadina
Astuta (Scintilla); Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto (Fidalma);
Traetta’s Il Cavaliere Errante (Ruffina); La Bohème (Mimì);
Suor Angelica (Suora Zelatrice) conducted by Donato Renzetti; Aida
(title role) led by Bruno Aprea; Cavalleria Rusticana (Santuzza); Così
fan tutte (Fiordiligi); and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina).
Plans
include Countess Rosina in Mercadante’s I due Figaro under the baton of
Riccardo Muti at the Teatro Real in Madrid and a lyric concert in Zurich.
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Student of Mirella Freni Giuseppe Talamo (Tenor) is emerging as an
interpreter of operas by Verdi and Puccini. Particularly appreciated his Rodolfo
in La Bohème at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, in the theater circuit in
Lombardy, on a tour in Spain and at the Opera Festival in Florence. He has also
performed in concert at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa with the Strings
ensemble of Teatro alla Scala, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, at Teatro
Filarmonico in Verona and at the Fenice in Venice. He has recorded Panis
Angelicus for Universal Films a documentary about the life of Pope John Paul II.
His discography includes a live recording of a five tenors’ Tribute Concert for
Tito Schipa at the Celestini Palace in Lecce (Bongiovanni). He made his debut as
Benjamin Franklin in Madama Butterfly in Treviso and Rovigo.
Future plans include La Bohème (Rodolfo) at the Teatro Verdi in
Trieste.
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The bass Riccardo Ferrari’s successful career includes: Il Barbiere di
Siviglia at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara under the baton of Claudio
Abbado; Boris Godunov, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto at the
Teatro Regio in Turin; Un Ballo in Maschera and Mozart's Krönungsmesse
at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) and
Faust (Méphistofélès) led by Vladimir Jurowski in Genoa; Tosca, La
Bohème and Turandot at the Puccini Opera Festival in Torre del Lago;
Guillaume Tell, Semiramide and Moïse et Pharaon in Pesaro;
Tosca at the Taormina Opera Festival; Roméo et Juliette in Martina
Franca; Les Vêpres Siciliennes under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti in
Naples. He is a returning guest in numerous prestigious theaters such as: Teatro
dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Regio in Parma,La Fenice in
Venice, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in
Bruxelles, Teatro de La Maestranza in Sevilla, the New Israeli Opera in Tel
Aviv, the Scottish Opera and Opera House in Bilbao, Nancy, Amsterdam, Cordoba,
Las Palmas, Dublin. Plans include Madama Butterfly in Turin.
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