Angela Nisi - soprano

Born in Brindisi, Angela Nisi made her debut as Micaëla in Carmen in Bassano del Grappa. She then performed Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in Turin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia) and Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Bassano del Grappa; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera in Catania; Violetta in La Traviata at the Varna Summer Festival, in Essen; Giulietta in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at the Reate Festival. Ms. Nisi recently sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome with Antonio Pappano; Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Bangkok; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Clorinda) in Rome; Carmen (Micaëla) at the Cortona Mix Festival and in Florence with the Orchestra della Toscana; Mozart’s Requiem in Benevento; Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri in Cagliari, Sebastiano Rolli conducting.

Plans include: La Traviata in Toulon; Tutino’s Le Braci in Martina Franca (world première) and then at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Teatro alla Pergola) in Florence; Don Pasquale in Rennes; Stabat Mater by Pergolesi in Montalto di Castro and by Scarlatti at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa; Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in Bassano del  in Bassano del Grappa.

Adriana Di Paola - Mezzo

Winner of Santa Chiara Contest in Naples, she made her debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Il viaggio a Reims) and at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto (Amelia al Ballo). At the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia she performed Le nozze di Figaro, Ariadne auf Naxos and Rigoletto. Ms. Di Paola sang in I Vespri Siciliani at the Festival Verdi in Parma, where she also performed in La Forza del Destino with Gianluigi Gelmetti. She took part in the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang in Die Zauberflöte, Carmen and Giulio Cesare. Ms. Di Paola starred as Zita in Gianni Schicchi with the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she returned to sing Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle led from the piano by Antonio Pappano, who chose her also for a special event around Brahms. She then performed: Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival, Vladimir Jurowski conducting; Handel’s Giulio Cesare(Cornelia) in Klagenfurt; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Monte-Carlo and in Saarbrücken; Verdi’s I vespri siciliani  in Madrid; Mozart’s Requiem  in Naples; Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in Bari; Dido and Aeneas in Florence under Stefano Montanari; L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She also took part in the first edition of the Accademia Monteverdiana under John Eliot Gardiner. Future plans: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano; Stabat Mater in Génève with the Geneva Camerata; revival of L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Alessandro Liberatore - tenor

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, Hong Kong , Mannheim), Rigoletto (Palermo, Lisbona), Madama Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera in Miami , Teatro Comunale Bologna), La Clemenza di Tito(Bergen), La Traviata (Trieste , Rouen, Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa, Cagliari, Sassari, Erl). He also successfully performed: Thaïs and Idomeneo in Turin; I Capuleti e i Montecchi  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. Other recent successes include: Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Tampere; Lucio Silla (title role) 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, La Bohème and Lucia di Lammermoor in Rome; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Cagliari; Otello (Cassio)in Naples; Nabucco in Nancy; Massenet’s Manon in Liège, opposite Annick Massis. His future projects include: Mozart’s Requiem in Erl; Un Ballo in Maschera in Bern; Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra in Sassari; L’Elisir d’Amore in Cagliari; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Oviedo.

Gianluca Buratto - Bass

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 première) in Turin with Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in Barcelona with Rousset; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; La Bohème ( with Chailly) and I Due Foscari in Valencia; Macbeth at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican City, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and in Milan (concert and recording) with La Verdi Orchestra; 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 Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in Nancy and Paris; La Bohème at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome and in Amsterdam; I Puritani in Florence; Le Duc d’Albe in London for Opera Rara. He had just starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespers on US tour with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Plans include : a series of concerts with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in London (BBC Proms) and Versailles;  Rigoletto  at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; Die Zauberflöte in Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni; La Bohème in Palermo; Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera; Turandot in Montpellier; I Due Foscari in Amsterdam; Faccio's Hamlet at the Bregenzer Festspiele; Semiramide in London for Opera Rara. In 2016 he will have his first solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London.