NEWS

CONDUCTOR Myung-Whun Chung’s long and outstanding musical career is marked by his appointment as Direttore Emeritus at Filarmonica della Scala in Milano since 2023, the first ever in their history; Principal Guest Conductor of Dresden Staatskapelle, also the first...

Carlo Benedetto CIMENTO

CONDUCTOR Carlo Benedetto Cimento is currently First Kapellmeister at Landestheater Salzburg, where he conducted Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Il viaggio a Reims (production by Andrea Bernard), Mozart's Lucio Silla (production by Amelie Niermeyer) as well as...

Jérôme CORREAS

CONDUCTOR Jérôme Correas trained as a harpsichordist and singer. A pupil of harpsichordist and musicologist Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume, he received first prize at the CNSMD (Conservatory) in Paris in baroque singing in the class of William Christie, then in opera in...

Andrea DE CARLO

CONDUCTOR In 2005 Andrea De Carlo founded the Ensemble Mare Nostrum, with which he recorded Orgelbüchleinby J. S. Bach for MA Recordings, receiving the Découverte award; he conducted Le concert des violes, recorded for Ricercar-Outhere Music, awarded with 5 Diapason...

Andrea MARCON

CONDUCTOR Andrea Marcon was awarded the Händel Prize 2021 by the Händel-Haus Foundation in Halle. Invited by Teatro alla Scala in 2023 he conducted Li zite 'ngalera by Leonardo Vinci, followed by the first performance in Venezia of Il Trionfo del Tempo e del...

PANNI Marcello

Composer, Conductor, Music Organizer, Discography Born in Roma in 1940, Marcello Panni studied piano, composition and conducting in his hometown, graduating from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, where he was a pupil of Goffredo Petrassi. He has been a pupil...

Andrea MOLINO

CONDUCTOR Andrea Molino opened Accademia Chigiana's International Weeks 2023 on the 100th anniversary of its foundation by conducting Luciano Berio's Voci and Coro. He was reinvited by Accademia Chigiana in Siena for a tribute to György Ligeti in 2024 and to conduct...

Salvatore PERCACCIOLO

CONDUCTOR A conductor and a pianist, Salvatore Percacciolo was invited by the Nationaltheater Mannheim, of which he was appointed Erste Kapellmeister, to conduct Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Jerry Bock's Anatevka, Engelbert Humperdinck's...

Massimo RACCANELLI

CONDUCTOR Massimo Raccanelli conducted Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, where he was invited again in 2024 to conduct Die Zauberflöte. He had conducted Mozart's Don Giovanni at Teatro Ristori in Verona with Frau Musika Orchestra. He was...

David ROBERTSON

CONDUCTOR Conductor and composer, former music director of Sidney Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony, Ensemble InterContemporain in collaboration with Pierre Boulez, Jerusalem Symphony, he is currently based in...

Jonathan WEBB

CONDUCTOR Jonathan Webb has conducted a wide range of musical genres and styles in both the concert and opera fields. He has collaborated with numerous directors including Goetz Friedrich, Hugo de Ana, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, David Poutney, David...

Francesca LOMBARDI MAZZULLI

SOPRANO Soprano Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, graduated from the Milano Conservatory and then from the Ferrara Conservatory with Mirella Freni, was a student of Luciano Pavarotti, Alessandra Molinari, Sonia Prina and Fernando Opa. She is currently perfecting her skills...

Michel TABACHNIK

CONDUCTOR Michel Tabachnik, as Music Director of the Brussels Phiharmonic, creates programmes with a traditional symphonic repertoire and XX century compositions, showing that there are no boundaries dividing music of yesterday and music of today. He studied piano,...

Valentino VILLA

DIRECTION

DIRECTION The rare opera Cefalo e Procri by Ernst Heinrich Křenek , juxtaposed with a new creation by Silvia Colasanti , marks Valentino Villa ‘ s debut in opera direction at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2017, which in a few years becomes an important hub of his...

Danbi LEE

MEZZO Mezzo-soprano Danbi Lee was born in 1995 in South Korea. She began studying singing at 'Chung-Ang' University, graduating under the guidance of Prof. Yang Hye-jung in 2017. In 2022, she graduated with top marks and honourable mention from the Conservatorio...

Patrizia BICCIRÈ

SOPRANO Patrizia Biccirè has taken up an international career which has led her to perform in many of the main opera theatres such as Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Regio di Torino,...

Silvia REGAZZO

MEZZO Silvia Regazzo was born in Rovigo. After a Master Degree in Philosophy, she graduated in Singing with honors at Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello of Venice. She won various International Singing Competitions: Toti Dal Monte, Città Lirica Opera-Studio, Città di...

Anna VIKTOROVA

MEZZO Born in Moscow, she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and specialised in opera singing in 2008. She furthered her studies at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milano, where she attended master classes with Grace Bumbry, Brigitte Fassbaender,...

Alda CAIELLO

SOPRANO Alda Caiello is one of the leading performers in the contemporary European scene, known for her versatile, imaginative and expressive abilities. Graduated in piano and singing at the Conservatory of Perugia, she has sung under the baton of important ...

Nicolò BALDUCCI

Countertenor

COUNTERTENOR Born in Canosa di Puglia in 1999, Nicolò Balducci is a countertenor who sings with equal ease and brilliance in the soprano and contralto repertoire.In 2023-2024 he appeared in Nantes and Angers with Leonardo Alarcon and Cappella Mediterranea in the rare...

Luisa CASTELLANI

SOPRANO Luisa Castellani is nowadays considered as one of the best interpreters of contemporary music and is particularly appreciated for the extreme flexibility of her voice. She combines passionate temperament, irony and lively wit to the rigour and taste of the...

Carlo VISTOLI

Countertenor

COUNTERTENOR After studying classical guitar and piano, Carlo Vistoli began his vocal training as countertenor in 2007 with William Matteuzzi and Sonia Prina. He attended the Conservatorio «Girolamo Frescobaldi» in Ferrara (Renaissance and Baroque Singing) as well as...

Magdalena Anna HOFMANN

SOPRANO Magdalena Anna Hofmann was born in Warsaw, Poland and and completed her formal vocal training inVienna. After her soprano debut as Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Klosterneuburg Festival in July 2011, Magdalena Anna Hofmann sung her...

Disella LARUSDOTTIR

SOPRANO Following her critically acclaimed performance in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2007 National Council Auditions and the subsequent documentary film The Audition, Disella Lárusdóttir began an important relationship with the company. In season 2015/2016 Ms....

Raffaele FEO

TENOR Raffaele Feo was born in Imperia in 1988 and alongside school studies he attended the conservatory in Genova under the guidance of mezzo-soprano Gloria Scalchi. Parallel to his training, he became appreciated in different repertoires from baroque to...

Christopher LEMMINGS

TENOR Christopher Lemmings studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before commencing a career which has seen him singing operatic and concert repertoire spanning five centuries, nine languages, countless styles and more than fifty individual roles, with a...

Paweł ŻAK

TENORE Paweł Żak is a student of the last year of master’s studies in Music Academy in Lodz, where he studies with professor Krzysztof Bednarek. In June 2021 he gained a diploma of Undergraduate Studies. His repertoire includes operatic roles from different musical...

Zachary Clayton ALTMAN

BARITONE Baritone Zachary Altman joins Theater Basel for seven productions in the 2014-15 season, including Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), Schlemil/Hermann (Les contes d’Hoffmann), and Montano in a new production of Otello directed by Calixto Bieito. He will also...

Maria Stella MAURIZI

SOPRANO Maria Stella Maurizi was born in Fabriano in 1998. At the age of sixteen, she was studying with Beatrice Mezzanotte then at G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with Valeria Esposito and Anna Vandi. On December 2020 she obtained her degree in Lyrical...

Francesco SALVADORI

BARITONO Born in Siena in 1985, Francesco Salvadori graduated at the Cherubini Conservatory in Firenze . He attended masterclasses at the Centre del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and at the Advanced Course of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in...

Nadja MCHANTAF

SOPRANO Nadja Mchantaf is a member of the resident ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin, where she has sung Rusalka (Rusalka), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), Mimi (La Bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Coși fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Das Kind...

Alessio VERNA

BARITONE Born in Alessandria, he studied voice under the guidance of the mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiucci. Latest productions include Mathieu in Andrea Chenier in Bologna, Geolier in Dialogues des Carmelites by Poulenc in Rome Opera, production by Emma Dante, under the...

Claron McFADDEN

SOPRANO Claron McFadden studied voice at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Her celebrated opera roles are numerous and varied, including the title role of “Lulu” conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and The controller in Jonathan Dove’s “Flight”, both...

Luca TITTOTO

Basso

BASSO Luca Tittoto is one of the most accomplished and sought-after basses of his generation, especially appreciated in the “baroque”, Mozart and “belcanto” repertoire. In 2024, he was invited twice at La Scala: in the part of Gessler in Rossini's Guillaume Tell,...

Sandrine PIAU

SOPRANO A wellknown singer in the baroque music world , the French soprano Sandrine Piau is performing with conductors such as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Gustav Lleonhardt, Ivor Bolton, Ton Koopman, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski and...

CAMERISTI DELLA SCALA

ENSEMBLE Cameristi della Scala Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1982 by musicians from Teatro alla Scala Orchestra. They are performing in the world's most prestigious theatres and concert halls, including Teatro alla Scala in Milano, such as Carnegie Hall in New...

Alice ROSSI

SOPRANO Alice Rossi is a flexible, expressive, colorful soprano, expert in Baroque and Contemporary music repertoire. Since 2021 she is a member of Junges Ensemble of Semperoper Dresden, where she performed Clorinda in La Cenerentola by Rossini, Adele in Fledermaus by...

DEDALO ENSEMBLE (conductor Vittorio Parisi)

ENSEMBLE Dèdalo Ensemble uses a number of different chamber formations in search of differentiated tonal blends which are sometimes extraneous to the most conventional repertoires. A strong affinity and shared goals have brought together musicians who have acquired...

ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM – EMN (conductor Andrea de Carlo)

ENSEMBLE Mare Nostrum Ensemble, MNE, conducted by Andrea De Carlo, focuses on baroque music and in particular on the compositions by Alessando Stradella.Founded in 2005, Mare Nostrum Ensemble started as the “Consort of Viols” but the ensemble opened up soon to a wider...

LA CETRA (conductor Andrea Marcon)

ENSEMBLE The name of the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel is borrowed from Antonio Vivaldi’s violin concerto op. 9 La Cetra – the lyre. It stands for the orchestra’s core repertoire, the Italian instrumental music of the 18th century. In addition to concertante...

Chantal SANTON JEFFERY

SOPRANO Often acclaimed as one of the most accomplished French sopranos of the moment, praised for her “gloriously smooth, rich textured soprano” (The international Record Review), Chantal Santon-Jeffery has embodied numerous roles in the opera, from Mozart (Donna...

LES PALADINS (conductor Jérôme Correas)

ENSEMBLE In 1760 Jean-Philippe Rameau composed Les Paladins, the last masterpiece of the French Baroque spirit, written under the sign of fantasy and imagination. It is in this spirit that Jérôme Correas founded Les Paladins in 2001, a baroque orchestra with which he...

Sharon Jane CARTY

MEZZO Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is a singer who has firmly established a reputation as a respected interpreter of both early and contemporary works, alongside maintaining a busy schedule in mainstream opera and concert repertoire. She is an alumna of the RIAM...

mdi ensemble

ENSEMBLE mdi ensemble was founded in Milano in 2002. In 2017 it was awarded ‘Una vita nella musica’ (A life in music) prize by Teatro alla Fenice in Venezia, for having pursued ‘with tenacity and tireless study a very precise goal, that is, tackling the production of...

Jennifer FEINSTEIN

MEZZO Rising young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Feinstein has been likened by the Los Angeles Times to “a young Horne, so rich is her mezzo and so full of spark was she on stage.” The Santa Barbara Independentpraised her “remarkable, expressive voice reaching through the...

Sara FULGONI

MEZZO The British Mezzo Sara Fulgoni is an outstanding vocal and dramatic talent, performing at major opera and concert venues worldwide in a huge variety of repertoire, all to critical acclaim. The full, rich and lustrous quality of her voice, as well as her...

Katarzyna OTCZYK

MEZZO Italy-Poland mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Otczyk graduated in opera singing at the Università Musicale F. Chopin of Warsaw in 2009, attending Anna Radziejewska’s class. She studied for a while at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Roma with the european Erasmus...

Cristina ZAVALLONI

BIOGRAPHY Cristina Zavalloni’s musical background is steeped in jazz, bel canto, and composition. She was born in Bologna and, while starting off her carrier as a jazz vocalist on the avant jazz scene, she attended the Conservatorio di Musica “Giovan Battista...

Michele MARELLI

Clarinet

CLARINET Michele Marelli, winner of six editions of the Stockhausen Foundation Prize, has been awarded Valentino Bucchi Prize in Roma, First Prize at the Penderecki Competition in Krakow, the Master of Musical Talents of the CRT Foundation, Honorary Logos Award in...

Angelo GIORDANO

Countertenor

COUNTERTENOR Angelo Giordano completed his musical studies at the 'Nicola Sala' Conservatory of Music in Benevento, studying singing with Gioacchino Zarrelli, after his studies at 'San Pietro a Majella' Conservatory of Music in Napoli, where he studied early music...

John Gordon BELLEMER

TENOR The American tenor John Bellemer has gained a reputation for his strong portrayals in a very wide repertoire. Possessed of a voice the New York Times calls “clarion-toned”, he continues to appear in leading roles at opera houses across North America and Europe....

Erin Bradford CAVES

TENOR Recent highlights for American tenor Erin Caves include his much acclaimed role-debut as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde at Oper Stuttgart under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling and the same role at the l’Opéra national de Bordeaux conducted by Paul Daniel. The...

Filippo BETTOSCHI

BARITONE Filippo Bettoschi ha iniziato lo studio del canto con Maria Trabucco e si è perfezionato con Margaret Baker Genovesi. Contestualmente si è laureato in Lingue e Letterature straniere a Genova e infatti parla fluentemente inglese, francese e tedesco e per...

Allen BOXER

BARITONE “Allen Boxer gives a superb, particularly endearing Golaud. His sound is large, appropriately dark, trenchant, worrying, painful and intense with extreme violence. His diction is matched by his beautiful legato and ideal projection. A great singer, whose...

Benjamin CHO

BARITONE Born in 1989 in South Korea, Benjamin Cho achieved his degree at the University of Arts of South Korea . In 2009 he made his debut as Pappageno in Die Zauberflöte and in 2010 he sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Seoul Art Center. He then attended the Music...

Chiara MUTI

ACTRESSES

ACTRESSES Actress, author and director, Chiara Muti studied at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milano and then at the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan directed by Giorgio Strehler. She made her theatre debut in 1995 alongside Valeria Moriconi. Since then she...

Lukáš ZEMAN

BIOGRAPHY In season 2019/20 baritone Lukáš Zeman sang his first Orfeo by Monteverdi (Orfeo) at the Pilsen Opera House. This performance also reopened the Margravian Theater in Bayreuth after the renovation. Next to this he sang Verva and Konecny in Osud by Janacek in...

Rocco CAVALLUZZI

Basso

BASSO Rocco Cavalluzzi graduated with honours at the Conservatorium of Music L. Perosi in his home town Campobasso. In 2014 he attended the Academy of Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti” in Martina Franca where he was awarded “best talent” prize. He studied at Teatro alla...

Giulio BIDDAU

PIANO Giulio Biddau, born in Cagliari, studied with Arlette Giangrandi Eggmann and graduated in piano at the Conservatory of his city. He furthered his studies in Paris with Jean-Marc Luisada at the École Normale and later with Aldo Ciccolini and Dominique Merlet. He...

Andrè GALLO

PIANO A pupil of Franco Scala at the Accademia Pianistica di Imola, where he currently is a teacher and Vice President. André Gallo gives solo and chamber music concerts. Bryce Morrison, of Gramophone Magazine, describes him as "a masterful pianist with a bold and...

David KADOUCH

PIANO David Kadouch, 'instrumental soloist revelation of the year' at the 2010 Victoires de la Musique and 'young artist of the year' at the 2011 Classical Music Awards, has been invited by numerous Festivals including Granada, Gstaad, Montreux, Verbier,...

Martha NOGUERA

PIANO Martha Noguera was born in Buenos Aires into an Italian family and graduated from the National Conservatory of Music 'Carlos López Buchardo' obtaining first prize and a gold medal. She studied with Ilona Kabos, Louis La Via and Eugenio Bures. She has received...

Orli SHAHAM