Aquiles Machado - Rodolfo (July 14^th, 26^th, 29^th, 31^st August 4^th, 9^th )

After his successes gained in I Masnadieri in Naples, La Gioconda in Palermo and Rome, La Forza del Destino at the Festival Verdi in Parma, Ernani in Bilbao, Un Ballo in Maschera in Liège and Simon Boccanegra in Berlin, Aquiles Machado recently starred as Cavaradossi in Tosca in Leipzig, role he had sung with huge success at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper). Among his recent engagements it is worth mentioning: Don José in Carmen in Las Palmas; Gabriele Adorno inSimon Boccanegra in Zurich; Alfredo in La Traviata in Florence; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Rodolfo in La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly conducting; Un Ballo in Maschera in Las Palmas; Norma at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; La Traviata at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia under Zubin Mehta; Roméo et Juliette in Liège; Don José in Carmen in Bilbao; I Due Foscari in Toulouse. Aquiles Machado had performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna then on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti and in Cincinnati and St. Luois under the baton of Frühbeck de Burgos and again Verdian Gala at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

Future plans:  Madama Butterfly  in Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); La Bohème at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Tosca in Cagliari; a gala Concert in Madrid.

Alessandro Liberatore - Rodolfo (July 18^th, 2^nd, 7^th)

Increasingly on demand at the international level, he is the interpreter of such titles as: La Bohème (Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Palm Beach Lyric Opera and in Hong Kong), Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo in Palermo),Madama Butterfly(Florida Grand Opera in Miami), La Clemenza di Tito(Bergen), La Traviata(Trieste and Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa, Cagliari and Sassari), Thaïsand Idomeneo at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Macbeth (Macduff) in Sassari; I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Opera in Rome; and Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Singer) in Barcelona and Madrid. Alessandro Liberatore recently performedLucia di Lammermoor in Rovigo; Rigoletto at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon; La Traviata in Rouen; Nabucco and a series of concerts at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Gustav Kuhn conducting. Mr. Liberatore has just made his exciting debut in Verdi’s Requiem in Cagliari, at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa under Aldo Ceccato and in Toblach under Andrea Battistoni and gained great success as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Tampere; Lucio Silla (title role) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona under Harry Bickett; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican City and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Lucia di Lammermoor in Catania; Manon Lescaut at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti conducting; Missa Solemnis in Cagliari. His future projects include: Massenet’s Manon at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Nabucco in Nancy.

Gianluca Buratto - Colline

A noble and round voice, Gianluca Buratto is rapidly establishing himself as one of his most versatile basses of his generation. His recent engagements include: Bach’s B minor Mass with Savall in Madrid and Barcelona, both Mozart and Jommelli’s Betulia liberata with Muti in Salzburg and Ravenna and in Wroclaw under Rovaris; Mercadante’s Virginia and La Bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival; Ambrosini’s Il Killer di Parole (world premiere), La Bohème and Rigoletto in Venice; Mozart’s Mass in C minor KV 427 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Nagano and in Cagliari; Bach’s Johannes-Passion with Lopez-Banzo in Spain and Germany; Macbeth with Muti at the Salzburg Festival, Rome and Chicago; Solbiati’s La Leggenda (world premiere) in Turin with Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in Barcelona with Rousset; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; La Bohème (under the baton of Chailly) and I Due Foscari in Valencia; Macbeth at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Rota’s Mysterium in Naples and Rome; Rigoletto at the Carlo Felice in Genoa under Luisi; Handel’s Rinaldo and Admeto at the Theater an der Wien; Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in Nancy.

Future plans:  Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Salle Pleyel in Paris under Christophe Rousset; La Bohème in Amsterdam; I Puritani at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de Musica de Bogotà; Die Zauberflöte in Liège.