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...
SINGERS
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,...
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 ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nicolò BALDUCCI
COUNTERTENOR Nicolò Balducci is one of the most prominent young countertenors on the European scene. Recent engagements include his debut as Nerone in Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi at the Palau des Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, conductor Leonardo Garcia...
Angelo GIORDANO
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...
Carlo VISTOLI
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alessio VERNA
BARITONE Born in Alessandria, he studied voice under the guidance of the mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiucci. He has recently made his debut as Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the Teatro Comunale Bologna as well as Don Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Florence Opera,...
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 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...