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| Mirca
Rosciani - Repertory |
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Mirca Rosciani
graduated with honors in 1988 from the "L.Refice" Conservatory
in Frosinone, where she studied under the guidance of Prof. Marylene Mouquet.
She subsequently attended several highly specialized national and
international courses in Florence, Sirolo (AN), Bologna, Rome, Paris,
and Nice (at the Superior Conservatory) with the Maestros Jean Fassina,
Luigi Mostacci, Aquiles Delle Vigne, and others. She studied languages
at the Linguistic School of Velletri (RM), and speaks French, English,
and German fluently. At Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory she earned
a diploma in the Principal Course of Musical Score Literature (Master
Collaborator in Opera Theatre), and, as a result, has collaborated with
various orchestras, such as the Chamber Music Orchestra of Bologna, the
Regional Orchestra of Lazio, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Marches,
the Nova Amadeus Orchestra of Rome, and the Chamber Music Orchestra of
the Marches. At the Academy of Operatic and Vocal Arts in Osimo,
she earned a diploma in the Course of Master Collaborator, studying with
Enza Ferrari. |
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| Elisabetta
Courir - Acting and Dramaturgy |
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| Born in Bologna, Elisabetta Courir studied humanities together with music, and musicology. She began her professional career in 1986, working in some of Italy's principal theatres alongside directors such as Fo, Bolognini, Sagi, Pagliaro, Menotti, Tiezzi, Crivelli and Puggelli. She carried out additional training with the director Egisto Marcucci with whom she has collaborated since 1988 as assistant director both for theater productions - including works by MAGRIS, SAVINIO, GOZZI, ARISTOFANE, KLEIST, PALAZZESCHI, SHAKESPEARE, IONESCO, SVEVO - and opera productions - including operas by ROSSINI, MOZART, VIVALDI, BELLINI, HAENDEL, DONIZETTI, PUCCINI. She has specialized in mime with Marcello Bartoli, and in dramaturgy with Luca Ronconi. In 1994, she made her debut as a director at the Teatro Filarmonico at Verona in Vivaldi's Tamerlano, with sets by Emanuele Luzzati and costumes by Santuzza Calì. This was followed by Mercandante's Caritea, Regina di Spagna with sets and costumes by Graziano Gregori for the Festival of Valle d'Itria in 1995, Paisiello's Socreate Immaginario, Rossini's La Cenerentola and Verdi's Rigoletto with sets and costumes by Guido Fiorati for theaters in Savona, Imperia, La Spezia, and Fermo. Recently she directed Rimski-Korsakov's Sadko with sets by Lauro Crisman and costumes by Claudia Calvaresi for the season opening of La Fenice in Venice. Her most recent work includes the theater laboratory for the Teatro del Giglio at Lucca on Basile's Three Cedars, the multimedia videoconferenze between Italy, France and Spain based on Primo Levi's The Sixth Day, and an evening of music and poetry "Devozione e Affabulazione" based around the authors Cazzati, Sanchez and Draghi for Bologna's "Feste Musicali. She has also revived Emilio Sagi's production of Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival and Federico's Tiezzi's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore at Cagliari's Teatro Lirico. Since 1996 she has collaborated both as director and actress with the theater company "I Fratellini. with Marcello Bartoli, Dario Cantarelli and Egisto Marcucci. Together they have staged, amongst others, productions of Ionesco's Chairs and Svevo's Una Burla Riuscita. She currently teaches acting and dramaturgy at the Accademia del Teatro di Cagli where she has directed a number of productions including Rossini's IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO, Pergolesi's LA SERVA PADRONA, Mozart's COSÌ FAN TUTTE with sets by Guido Fiorato, and Ubaldo Leli's I CANTI DEL MARE with designs by Oscar Piatella. | ||
| Pietro Borgonovo - Conductor and musical preparation |
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Born in Milan, he has become well known for his conducting of orchestral and opera productions at leading festivals and theatres. These include his presence at the 1999 Salzburg Festspiele as part of the Progetto Pollini conducting the Klangforum Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, and conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino at the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2000" with music by Monteverdi, Donizetti, Corghi. He has also conducted the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice at Venice, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico at Cagliari, Orchestra del Teatro Verdi at Trieste, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio, the Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano and Trento, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional di Buenos Aires, the Orchester der Stadt Koblenz and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano. He participated at the Venice Biennale in 2000, and at Bologna he conducted the Orchestra della Fondazione Toscanini di Parma in the "Concerto per il 2 agosto" in Piazza Maggiore, transmitted by RAI 3. He conducted the world premiere of "Medea" by Adriano Guarnieri in October 2002 in a production by the Teatro La Fenice of Venice. It was both a public and a critical success with some newspapers hailing it as a "triumph". The production was awarded the Premio Abbiati 2003 and the award citation underlined the "refined musical and scenic interpretation which have given back brave experimentation to the idea of composition and multimedia." A versatile musician, in January 2000 he took on the role of Musical and Artistic Director of GOG (Genoa Youth Orchestra) and since 2003 the role of Artistic Director of the Concorso Internazionale di Musica G. B. Viotti of Vercelli. From early youth he played as an oboe soloist and was a leading player at a world level. He studied under Heinz Holliger, and performed at major festivals and international centres - Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festpiele, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Venice Biennale, Musica Bayreuth, Festival d'Automne of Paris, Festival of Montreux, Donaueschinger Musiktage, New York, Berlin, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Prague, Bonn, Luxemburg, Moscow, St Petersburg, Madrid, Lisbon. His deep interest in contemporary music has lead him to collabrate with many composers of our time: George Benjamin, Luciano Berio, Azio Corghi, Franco Donatoni, Ivan Fedele, Adriano Guarnieri, Salvatore Sciarrino, Fabio Vacchi, Iannis Xenakis … for whom he has interpreted and conducted premieres of works, many dedicated to him. Both as an oboist and as a conductor he boasts a vast discography for important international labels such as Denon, Erato, RCA, and BMG, winning a Grand Prix du Disque and the citation for being amongst the five best symphonic discs in 1998 awarded by the Italian Critics. |
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| Sherman Lowe - baritone vocal technique |
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| SHERMAN LOWE graduated from the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts, University of North Carolina in 1974. He continued his studies at the Accademia Chigiana at Siena and at the Hochschule Mozarteum at Salzburg. In 1979 he moved to New York City where he studied with the best known teachers in New York including Daniel Ferro, Armen Boyajian, Shirlee Emmons and Leyna Gabriele. He then he furthered his studies as a bass baritone in Europe with Hans Hotter, Walter Berry, Simon Estes, Kim Borg, Licia Albanese and Geoffrey Parsons. He has won important competitions both in the United States and Europe. He has sung in numerous theatres and concert halls in North America and Europe, working with the most noted conductors and singers.
A scholar in vocal research, he won a prestigious Fulbright Foundation prize in 1993 and 1994 in order to further his work in Italy. He now lives and works in Venice. He is much sought after at international conferences on singing and has published articles on the subject. His studio is an international "melting-pot" for singers, many of whom sing in major theatres worldwide. |
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| Gloria Banditelli - mezzosoprano |
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| Born in Assisi, she graduated in singing at the Conservatorio of Perugia. In 1979 she won the Spoleto Concorso del Teatro Sperimentale, making her debut in the principal roles in Rossini's "Cenerentola" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas". She has sung in Italy's and Europe's principal opera houses, such as Milan's Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale of Bolognaand of Florence, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Théatre des Champs Elysées, de l'Opera e du Chatelet de Paris, the Teatro Real e de la Zarzuela of Madrid, the Athens Concert Hall, Opera di Montecarlo. Specializing in Baroque repertory, she has taken part in numerous concerts and opera productions at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Neue Philarmonie of Cologne, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Società del Quartetto of Milano, the Ravenna Festival, the Festival di Beaune, under the direction of specialists such as J. Savall, A. Curtis, F. Biondi, R. Jacobs, G. Garrido, R. Clemencic, T. Florio, R. Alessandrini. In 1999 she gave a recital at the Konzert-Haus in Vienna. She has made recordings for Radio France, the WDR, Austrian ORT, Swiss television, Dutch radio, Italian television, as well as records for EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, Denon, Tactus, Opus 111, Nuova Era, DECCA, Naxos. |
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| Enrico De Feo - director |
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Born in Naples, Enrico De Feo came to the theatre thanks to his musical studies (jazz piano and trumpet) and his studies in modern dance and mime. Graduating in philosophy and foreign languages and modern literature, he has both taught (acting and dramaturgy) and carried out research in Germany in the Department of Theatre Science of the Universität Trier and the Universität des Saarlandes, mounting numerous shows and furthering in particular his studies in the theatrical avant-guarde of the early 20th Century. In 1992 he founded the company theater duke's oak, dedicated above all to contemporary authors and cabaret. At the invitation of various cultural organisations, including the Goethe-Institut, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli and ICRA (International Center for the Research of the Actor), he has held courses in improvisation techniques, conferences and organised video events on contemporary theatre. As assistant director he has worked alongside Roberto de Simone, Lina Wertmüller (also in television work), Enrico Job, Werner Herzog and Harry Kupfer, for whom he has also directed numerous revivals. He has also been a house director with the Staatsoper of Vienna and works regularly with the Liceu di Barcellona. He has directed some 20 shows - he made his debut in theatre in 1984 with Le Roi Se Meurt by Eugène Ionesco, and in opera in 1995 with Die Kluge by Carl Orff. His interests centre in particular on Baroque opera, opera buffa and German Expressionism. His forthcoming projects include Fidelio in Tokyo, revivals of Alcina in Oslo, Le Nozze di Figaro in Lausanne and Toulouse and the staging of the double-bill Erwartung/Pierrot Lunaire in Brasil |
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| Andrea Del Bianco - pianista accompagnatore |
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| Andrea Del Bianco, born at Recanati in 1978, graduated in piano at the Pesaro Conservatory "G.Rossini" under M°Lorenzo Bavaj. At the same institute he followed with a diploma in harpsichord obtaining the highest marks under first Prof.ssa Maria Letizia Pascoli then under Prof.ssa Maria Luisa Baldassarri. Currently he is studying composition with M° Mauro Ferrante and conducting with M° Manlio Benzi. He has done further piano courses given by maestri Lorenzo Bavaj, Pier Narciso Masi, Daniela Novaretto, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Roberto Cappello. He has taken part in harpsichord masterclasses held by Prof.ssa Fadini and M°Tagliavini. Currently he is attending the Accademia di Fusignano where he is following the annual piano courses given by M° Pier Narciso Masi and by Prof.ssa Daniela Novaretto. In 2001 he took part in the concert season of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Pesaro in the complete performance of the Beethoven concertos for piano and orchestra as soloist in the Concerto No.3 in C minor under the baton of M°Manlio Benzi. In the same year he won thrid prize in the "Città di Gabicce Mare" piano competition. In 2002 he won third prize in the Concorso Nazionale "G.Gambi" for harpsichord. Together with his sisters Paola (violinist) and Maria (oboist) he is part of the "Luigi Del Bianco" Trio. He carries out a busy schedule as an accompanist - he has worked in courses held by maestri Katja Ricciarelli, Vittorio Terranova, Gabriele Monici, Vilma Vernocchi and Francesco Zingariello. In the role of collaborator he has been involved with the opera season at the Arena Sferisterio at Macerata and the Teatro delle Muse at Ancona since 2000. |
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| Filippo Maria Bressan - Conductor |
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He started studying piano at a very young age before going on to study conducting, composition and singing. As a conductor he trained at Karl Oesterreicher's school at Vienna and as a choral direcor with Jürgen Jürgens and Mark Brown. He later furthered his studies with leading musicians including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ferdinand Leitner, Giovanni Acciai and Fosco Corti. He has conducted in many theatres and in major concert halls in Italy and Europe, and is considered one of the most innovative new Italian conductors in both the early music repertory and the symphonic-choral one. Formerly assistant to J. Jürgens, he has worked alongside great conductors such as C. Abbado (Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Berliner Philarmoniker), M. W. Chung, C. M. Giulini, E. Inbal, N. Järvi, P. Maag, L. Maazel, G. Prêtre, M. Rostropovich, G. Sinopoli, J. Tate and with A. Ballista, F. Brüggen, R. Buchbinder, M. Campanella, B. Canino, A. Pärt, M. Pletnev, R. Vlad, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra della Toscana ORT, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli, the Orchestra Toscanini, I Virtuosi Italiani, the Accademia Montis Regalis and many other artists and groups of musicians. He also studies musicology and early music performance practices, collaborating with musicians and orchestras working in the field. He founded and directs the Athestis Chorus and the Accademia delli Musici, chorus and orchestra dedicated to the promotion of great baroque music using authentic scores and period instruments. An enthusiast for choral music, he has won four first prizes and two second prizes in national and international competitions and the received the critic's prize at Gorizia in 1994. He is often a member of judging panels and artistic committees and from 2000 to 2002 he directed the Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome. He is also interested in 20th Century and contemporary music and has recorded a number of world premieres. He has conducted live concerts for Italian broadcaster RAI, and broadcasters in Austria, France and Slovenia. He has recorded for numerous labels including: EMI, Virgin, Chandos and recently for Deutsche Grammophon. |
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| Stefano Seghedoni - Conductor |
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| Born in Modena in 1970 and graduated in Composition and Conducting at the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato "O. Vecchi" at Modena and the Conservatorio "G.B. Martini" at Bologna under the guidance of Maestri Cristina Landuzzi and Nicola Evangelisti for Composition and Maestri Giancarlo Andretta, Pietro Veneri and Paolo Arrivabeni for Conducting. He has also followed courses with Maestri G. Indulti, R. Cognazzo, G. Ligeti, G. Petrassi, A. Solbiati, A. Guarneri, E. Morricone and F. Donatoni and, thanks to the meeting with Maestro Carlo Felice Cillario, he has deepened his studies in the Italian operatic repertory. Since 1990 he has worked in various theatres as stand-in conductor and, in that role, has had the possibilità of working with leading artists such as: Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Placido Domingo, Frans Brueggen, Nicola Martinucci, Massimo de Bernart, Yasuko Hayashi, Richard Bonynge, Leone Magiera, Enzo Dara, Antonio Salvadori, Franco Bordoni, etc.. In 1997 he was coordinator and co-teacher for training courses for opera singers run by the Fondazione "A. Toscanini" and held by Maestro Arrigo Pola; while in the summer of 2001he was the co-teacher for the Master Class held by Virginia Zeani at the Teatro Verdi at Busseto. Also for the Fondazione "A. Toscanini" at Parma, he has worked as co-teacher for the Master class given by M° Leo Nucci at theTeatro di Busseto (May 2002). He has worked as accompanist to Mirella Freni and M° Nicolaj Ghiaurov. With the Fondazione Toscanini and the Accademia di Canto run by Sig.ra Beatrice Bianco he has for a number of years a fruitful collaboration. He is also active as an accompanist, a role that has taken him to give concerts in pretigious venues in Italy and Japan. As a composer he has had widespread acknowledgement at important festivals and competitions (Di Nuovo Musica - 1997, Premio Valentino Bucchi.). He has also written a chamber opera ("The Chorister" by Chekhov), staged by the National Theatre at Marseille and the Teatro Comunale at Modena under his direction, and a musical for children, given its first staging at the Teatro Sperimentale at Ancona in March 2001 and repeated at other theatres in Le Marche. Also at the Teatro Sperimentale in Ancona he staged his new children's musical "Saghir il piccolo vento" in May 2003. In September 2005 he was commissioned to write a Gloria for a gala concert to mark the 60th anniversary of Valdosta autonomy. For the occasion he conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica Regionale of the Valle d'Aosta the the regional choir "Emile Chanoux". In October 2005 he gave his debut in the Teatro Piccolo Regio at Torino conducting the world premiere of his one act opera "Alice" gaining a notable success. As conductor he has worked at the National Theatre at Marseille, the Music and Drama Theatre at Brest (Bielorussia), the Teatro Comunale di Modena, the Teatro Comunale di Carpi (MO), Teatro Carani di Sassuolo (MO), Teatro Persio Flacco di Volterra (PI), Teatro Nuovo di Ferrara, Teatro Titano della Repubblica di S. Marino, Palazzo Pitti, Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto, Teatro Politeama di Cascina (Pi), Teatro Comunale di Imola, Teatro Carcano di Milano, Teatro Comunale di Cagli (PS) ["Accademia Opera Festival"], the Synagogue at Novi-Sad (Serbia), Serb National Theatre SNP (Novi Sad), Philharmonic Hall at Kharkov (Ukraine), Auditorium Mozart di Ivrea, Teatro Romano di Aosta, Festival delle Nazioni di Città di Castello ed. 2005, Teatro Antonianum di Padova, Teatro Comunale di Castelleone (Cr), Teatro Comunale di Chiasso, Teatro Manzoni (Bologna), Forum di Bressanone, Auditorium Monteverdi di Bolzano. He was also assistant to Michael Nyman for the staging of his opera "Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs", and to Claudio Desderi for the recording of "La pietra del paragone" by G. Rossini. In 1998 he founded the Orchestra Filarmonica Estense with whom he debuted in the Palazzo Pitti at Florence. Particularly active in the field of contemporary music he has had a fruitful collaboration with "I cameristi di S. Marino" who he has directed in numerous works by leading artists of the 20th Century (Prokof'ev, Milhaud, Poulenc, De Falla, Schoenberg, etc….) and in numerous first performances of works by young composers (Solbiati, Magini, Ambrosini, Togni, etc..) He has also worked with the Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana during the concert-event to mark the 40-year career of Luciano Pavarotti held at the Teatro Comunale at Modena, and with the Fondazione Toscanini in choral preparation for the performance of the "Missa Solemnis" by Stelvio Cipriani, given its world premiere in 2001 at the Auditorium of S. Patrignano. As conductor he has worked with various orchestras including: Philharmonic Orchestra of Brest (Bielorussia), Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra "Pro-Arte Marche" di Fano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Pesaro, Giovane Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Regionale della Valle d'Aosta, Orchestra Spazio Musica, Orchestra Classica di Alessandria, Orchestra Sinfonica di Pesaro, Piccola Orchestra Italiana, Ensemble salotto 800, Orchestra da Camera del Teatro Comunale di Modena, Symphony Orchestra of Vojvodina (Serbia), Orchestra e chorus of the Serb National Theatre of Novi Sad, Orchestra and chorus of the Opera House at Kharkov (Ukraine), Orchestra Filarmonica of Kharkov (Ukraine), Orchestra Sinfonica giovanile del Piemonte, I solisti di Perugia, I musici di Parma, Orchestra Jupiter, Orchestra Filarmonica of Nice (Principato di Monaco) Also works as conductor with the baritone Leo Nucci and his ensemble "Salotto '800". In the summer of 2002 he was musical assistant at the XIV Festival "Rossini in Wildbad", held in Selva Nera. As part of the festival he was also harpsichordist, language coach and vocal preparer for the chorus for the first performance in modern times of "Maometto o il fanatismo" by Peter von Winter; the work was also recorded for Naxos. He was also supervisor for the critical edition of Maometti II by Rossini, and was assistant to William Matteuzzi for his Master Class on the Rossini voice as part of the same festival. In December 2003 he made his debut in the opera season at the Teatro Comunale at Modena conducting the first performance of "La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia" by the composer Marco Biscarini. In 2004 he undertool an intense collaboration with the orchestras of the city of Novi Sad in Serbia, working with both the Sinfonica and with the groups of the Opera House. In autumn 2004, in fact, he was invited to open the opera and ballet season at the same theatre with a gala concert broadcast on nationbal TV. Since 2005 he has been musica director of the regional choir of the Valle d'Aosta "Emile Chanoux" and resident director of the Corale G. Rossini at Modena. In the summer of 2005 he was invited to conduct at the Festival delle Nazioni at Città di Castello (Pg) "Mandragora" by K. Szymanowski in a production by M. Zaniencki, receiving wide acclaim from the public and critics. In the same year he conducted numerous opera and symphonic concerts in which he accompanied amongst others Luca Canonici, Chiara Taigi, Katia Ricciarelli and Luciana Serra. In the winter of 2006 he was a guests at the opera season of the Teatro Comunale at Modena in which he conducted "The Little Sweep" by Benjamin Britten. |
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| Riccardo Canessa - Director |
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| Born at Milan he lives and works in Naples. Graduated in speech therapy, after various professional experiences in the field of opera as vocal trainer, artistic director and producer in the United States. In the summer of 1998 he became assistant director at the Arena di Verona, taking part in productions of Rigoletto, Nabucco, Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida and Tosca. He then worked at the Festival of Erl and at the Teatro Regio di Parma. In the meantime he started working as a director with Rigoletto at the Coliseu of Lisbona, Otello in the United States, Tosca in France, and La Bohème at Lucca, Pisa, Livorno and Mantova. He made his debut at the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona in November 1999 with Traviata; followed by Tosca at Salerno, Carmen at Padova, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at Adria. At the Teatrino di Corte at Naples, with Mozart in Viaggio Verso Praga, a stage adaptation by Stefano Valanzuolo with music by W.A Mozart. In 2001 he was invited to Spain for a number of productions of Rigoletto, he made his debut at the Opera of Marseille with I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata and he worked on La Serva Padrona in Veneto and L'Elisir d'Amore at Orvieto. In 2002 he returned to Marseille with two titles: Macbeth e Don Chisciotte, the latter also repeated at Nice. He also scored a major personal success at the Regio di Parma with the double bill La Clochette by Egidio Romualdo Duni and Il Campanello di Donizetti. After L'Elisir d'Amore at the Filarmonico di Verona he was at Parma were he staged Macbeth for the Fondazione Toscanini. The following year he was at Sassuolo Musica for Isabeau by Mascagni, Ernani and a staged version of the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven, before again returning to Parma for the Fondazione Toscanini. In 2005 Attila at Busset and Macbeth at Fidenza. After L'Osteria he will be at Naples for L'Elisr d'Amore together with Alfredi Troisi in a new and original production set to take place in the splendid setting of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. |
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| Luciana Serra - Singing teacher |
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Official website www.lucianaserra.info
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| Daniele Rubboli - Director |
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