Olga Busuioc - Madama Butterfly (role debut)

Olga Busuioc, young Moldavian singer, is a recipient of several prizes at international lyric competitions, such has the International Competition Ottavio Ziino, Second Prize (2011) and a Special Prize at the International Competition “Galina Vishnevskaya” in Moscow (2012), the international competition “St. Moniuszko” in Warsaw and at the international competition Francisco Vinas. She also won the prestigious Operalia in Moscow with Placido Domingo. Ms Busuioc performed in concert at the Music Festival Lastarii Muzicii in Chisinau and at the Music Festival in Ukraine under the baton of Andriy Yurkevych. In Italy, she is specializing under the guidance of Mirella Freni at Cubec in Modena. 

More recently Ms. Busuioc starred in Iolanta in Moldova, La Bohème (Mimì) at the National Theatre Opera & Balett in Chisinau, at the Martisor Festival in Romania, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest and she earned great success singing Manon Lescaut (title role) in Valencia conducted by Placido Domingo in Valencia. Her repertoire includes Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Eugene Onegin (Tatiana), Puccini’s Turandot (Liù) and La Bohème (Mimì), Bizet’s Carmen (Micaela), Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa d’Almaviva).

Plans include La Bohème in Los Angeles  and a Gala Concert in New York.

Alessandro Liberatore - Pinkerton *

Increasingly on demand at the international level, he is the interpreter of titles such as: La Bohème (Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Palm Beach Lyric Opera and in Hong Kong), Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo in Palerm ,and Lisbona),Madama Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera in Miami), La Clemenza di Tito(Bergen), La Traviata (Trieste , Rouen, and Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa, Cagliari and Sassari; Erl). He also successfully performed: Thaïs and 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. Mr. Liberatore made his exciting debut in Verdi’s Requiem in Cagliari, a piece he sang also at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa under Aldo Ceccato and in Toblach under Andrea Battistoni. Other recent successes include: 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, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and in Milan (recorded for Decca); Manon Lescaut with Riccardo Muti and La Bohème at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Cagliari; Otello (Cassio)in Naples; Nabucco in Nancy; Massenet’s Manon in Liège, opposite Annick Massis; La Bohème in Mannheim.

His future projects include: Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Mozart’s Requiem in Erl; Un Ballo in Maschera in Bern. Alessandro Liberatore will sing again Mysterium at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.