Barbara Frittoli soprano 

Born in Milan, she graduated with the highest honor at  "Giuseppe Verdi"  Conservatory in Milan where she studied  with Giovanna Canetti. She later was the winner of several international competitions.

Among her career's most remarkable  performances were THE WEDDING OF FIGARO (Countess of Almaviva) in Ferrara,  OTELLO (Desdemona) at the Salzburg Festival and at Teatro Regio in Turin with Claudio Abbado, COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Fiordiligi) at the Wiener Staatsoper and at Ravenna Festival with Riccardo Muti, also with Colin Davis at Covent Garden.

She sang DON GIOVANNI at Salzburg Festival with Lorin Maazel, TURANDOT (Liù) at Opéra Bastille with Georges Prêtre and a tour with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Zubin Mehta. At the Metropolitan she was Desdemona in OTELLO with James Levine, a role which she has performed in Brussels (Pappano), Wien, Nice, Florence (Mehta), and in which he made his debut in Munich under the baton of Mehta.  She sang DON GIOVANNI (Donna Anna) to Glyndebourne, at Wiener Staatsoper and the Metropolitan, the role of Elettra in IDOMENEO in Dresden under the baton of Colin Davis, Vitellia in LA CLEMENZA DI TITO  and the title role in LUISA MILLER at the Royal Opera House. We also remember her return to Opéra National de Paris in  SIMON BOCCANEGRA and OTELLO.

At Teatro alla Scala, she sang Leonora in IL TROVATORE, Alice in FALSTAFF, Desdemona in OTHELLO, La Contessa d'Almaviva in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Anaide in MOSES IN EGYPT and most recently  Suor Angelica in THE TRIPTYCH.

Her repertoire also includes IL FLAMINIO of Pergolesi, LA BOHÈME at Wiener Staatsoper and at  Metropolitan Opera, Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI, Sifare in MITRIDATE, RE DI PONTO in Turin and Paris with Christophe Rousset, Medora in IL CORSARO, Antonia in LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, Alice in FALSTAFF in Rome with Daniele Gatti, in Florence with Pappano , and at Covent Garden with Haitink. She was Amelia in SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Margherite in FAUST, LUISA MILLER and Elisabetta in DON CARLO debuted at Teatro Comunale in Florence under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Liù  in TURANDOT at Gran Teatre Liceu in Barcelona.

Brilliant and intense is also her activities pertaining concerts:  she has worked with leading orchestras and famous conductors in the world.  Her vast concert repertoire includes  Verdi's Requiem performed under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda along with bands like the Berlin Philharmonic, the Wiener Philharmonic, the Chicago Sinphony, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Boston Symphony Orchestra . His repertoire also includes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, K.427 Mass in C minor by Mozart (London Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis), Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Stabat Mater by Rossini (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly) Mahler's Fourth Symphony (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink).

She has recently sung THAÏS in Turin, the Verdi Requiem conducted by Maestro Pappano at Covent Garden, COSÌ FAN TUTTE in Valencia and Vienna, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO in Madrid, at the Opéra National in Paris and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, SIMON BOCCANEGRA  conducted by James Levine in Boston, New York but also in Barcelona, CARMEN at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, LUISA MILLER at the Zurich Opera, LA BOHÈME in Tokyo Yokohama on tour with the Teatro Regio in Turin. And moreover SIMON BOCCANEGRA at the Metropolitan Opera, FALSTAFF and LA BOHÈME in Zurich and finally DON GIOVANNI at the Metropolitan Opera, in Washington and at Teatro alla Scala in Milan as well as ADRIANA LECOUVREUR in Barcelona, DON CARLO in New York and at Teatro Regio in Turin, IL TABARRO in Verbier, FALSTAFF at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, LA BOHÈME and PAGLIACCI at Metropolitan Opera, FALSTAFF at the  Berlin Staatsoper.

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Fabio Armiliato  Tenore 

Fabio Armiliato, singer and actor, is one of the most important tenors of the international opera scene, acclaimed by the public for over three decades thanks to its unique vocal style, his impressive upper register and to his innate musicality , for not to mention his dramatic abilities and charisma that infuses in his characters. Born in Genoa, he studied at the Conservatory Niccolo Paganini of his city, and here he made his debut as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra and began a rapid career that led him to address the most important roles of its register in the most prestigious theaters in the world. In 1993 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with Il Trovatore (Verdi), returning later with Aida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Don Carlo, Simon Boccanegra , Tosca, Fedora, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chenier. The latter, considered one of his most iconic roles, he received the proclamation from the critics of “best Chénier of our times”.

Equally importance Fabio Armiliato gave to the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, also sung at La Scala in Milan, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the New National Theatre in Tokyo. During the period from 1990 to 1996, he performed in the Theatre of Antwerp on a cycle dedicated to Giacomo Puccini, in production directed by Robert Carsen interpreting Tosca, Don Carlo and Manon Lescaut. Since 2000, with her marriage in art and life with soprano Daniela Dessi has created one of the most important artistic couples of the recent history of opera, who got memorable triumphs in Manon Lescaut (Seville , Barcelona , Vienna, Parma and Berlin ), Adriana Lecouvreur in Naples, Palermo, Milan and Barcelona; Aida, Simon Boccanegra at the Verdi Festival in Parma and especially the interpretation of one of the most important titles of the verismo repertoire : , Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini, in Rome and in Macerata, who celebrated the return of this masterpiece of the young school. Refined interpreter of Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca with more than 150 performances of the title, has been acclaimed in this role in the most prestigious Opera Houses such as the Arena of Verona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Fenice in Venice and in a Japanese tour with the Teatro dell'Opera de Roma (who picked up a successful and memorable 45-minute applause at the end of the show) .

In this role he then returned to La Scala in Milan, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London under the baton of Antonio Pappano. Among the successes of these seasons, we recall a sensational debut in La forza del Destino at the Opera of Monte Carlo, La Fanciulla del West in Rome (with a historic encore in the popular aria Ch'ella mi creda ) and Tosca at Caracalla, celebrating twentieth anniversary of his debut in the same role in that location.

In the 2009-2010 season has opened with Turandot the season of the restored Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari with great success in the role of Calaf for the first time in Italy, then Madrid ( where he sang a brilliant Andrea Chénier ), Zurich (where he made his debut in the role of Rodolfo in Luisa Miller ), has returned to his native city of Genoa with Tosca where the public has received with great applause (Two encore for him every night), Vienna ( La Forza del Destino) and Torre del Lago, for the inauguration of the Festival Puccini with a new production of La Fanciulla del West, created to celebrate its centenary, with Daniela Dessi in the title role.

 Often hosted in the most poular television programs dedicated to the opera, in 2011 after the long-

awaited and triumphant debut in Otello at the Royal Opera of Liége, he was awarded with the "International 1° Premio Tito Schipa " in the beautiful Ostuni and he was proclaimed honorary citizen of the city of Recanati in the name of the great tenor Beniamino Gigli.

Fabio Armiliato starred in one of the main characters of Woody Allen’s film "To Rome with Love" released in 2012 and he has been awarded with the special "Oscar della Lirica 2012" on August 2, 2012 during the "International Opera Awards" in Torre del Lago Puccini.

Between 2013 and 2018, after the great success at the Opera de Wallonie Liège in Il Trovatore and La forza del Destino, he triumphed in Cavalleria Rusticana at the greek theater of Taormina and at Wiener Staatsoper and after in Madama Butterfly, Fedora and Carmen in Genoa and Otello in Valladolid. His La Boheme in Torre del Lago Puccini, directed by the master of cinema Ettore Scola and with Daniela Dessì, gained and extraordinary triumph, of critic and audience, reported by all medias in the world and that was broadcasted live and published in DVD by RAI 5. In December 2017 he made his debut as Danilo in The Merry Widow at Teatro Bellini in Catania and in November 2018 he played the role of Luciano de Chablis in Pietro Mascagni’s Sì, receiving in both productions a great success by audience and critics.

In 2019 he had a huge success playing the role of Maurizio di Sassonia in Adriana Lecouvreur at the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona and as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen in Arena di Verona. He returned to South Corea in Carmen at the end of december 2020.

Awarded with the title of Genoa Ambassador in the World and Knight of Malta in May 2018, he’s been nominated Diplomatic Correspondent by Malta Government for artistic and humanitarian merits. Fabio Armiliato has also been working for years as a vocal technique teacher and a high level teacher for the opera repertoire, participating in competitions, courses and conferences on the subject and as a teacher of Masterclass.

Theatre of his hometown Genoa, strengthening a relationship with the Genoese public that has

With the role of Maurizio in

Adriana Lecouvreur he returned in February 2020 with a triumphant success on the stage of the

seen him protagonist in 12 productions since the beginning of his career. Very recent triumph

he received as Pollione in Norma at the Teatro di Ferrara in June 2021.

In his impressive artistic career, there have been many occasions in which Fabio Armiliato has

found himself performing together with great artists, not only of opera but also of world pop

also taking part in three editions of the traditional prestigious "Christmas Concert in the

Vatican" where, he had the opportunity to be together on stage with artists of the caliber of

Lionel Ritchie, Patti Smith Elisa, live worldwide television. This continuous desire to explore and

get closer to other musical territories has meant that in 2020 several important and prestigious

collaborations were born that led him to interpret the song "Genova Vita" by Maurizio Martellini,

a real tribute and hymn to his hometown, made on the occasion of the opening of the "Nuovo

Ponte San Giorgio" and the most recent and very successful collaboration with Manuela Villa,

daughter of the great Claudio, in a duet with her in the beautiful song "Sei nell'aria" enriched by

a very suggestive videoclip.

 He has also been working many years as a teacher of vocal technique and high specialization

 for the lyrical repertoire, participating in competitions, courses and conferences on the subject

 and as a Masterclass teacher.

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ALESSANDRO TREBESCHI 

Pianista

Segretario artistico della Stagione d’Opera del Teatro Grande di Brescia

Diplomatosi in pianoforte al Conservatorio Lucio Campiani di Mantova, Alessandro Trebeschi ha proseguito i propri studi presso l’Università degli Studi di Brescia laureandosi nel 2003 in Economia Politica e all’Università di Pavia dove, nel 2006, si laurea in Economia Internazionale.

Da solista e camerista si è esibito in diversi Paesi europei e in Giappone come Kawai Artist, in Italia come ospite di Serate Musicali a Milano e di altri Festival e Stagioni concertistiche. Ha registrato per Radio Rai e SKY Classica. Nel 2018 ha inciso il quintuplo CD “Bazzini 200” per il bicentenario della nascita di Antonio Bazzini, con l’integrale delle trascrizioni operistiche per violino e pianoforte del maestro bresciano, in collaborazione con la violinista Anca Vasile. Si è dedicato attivamente alla promozione di spettacoli ed eventi che legassero la Musica con altre arti, alla realizzazione di opere liriche a fini didattici, all’ideazione di lezioni-concerto per i ragazzi. Promotore e direttore artistico del concorso lirico “Bazzini” di Montichiari, ha scritto e diretto per Terres des Hommes e la Commissione Europea il progetto Music bridges West Bank, Italy and France, che ha coinvolto più di 5000 bambini in Medio Oriente.

È, tuttavia, come pianista accompagnatore che ha svolto la maggior parte della sua attività. Collabora e ha collaborato in passato con il Festival Donizetti di Bergamo, il Teatro Comunale di Modena, il Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino.

Attualmente è vocal coach per il Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Scuola dell’Opera) ed è pianista ufficiale dei Talent Music Master Courses di Verona. Svolge il ruolo di accompagnatore pianistico presso il Conservatorio di Milano, il Conservatorio di Mantova, l’Istituto pareggiato di Cremona e il Conservatorio di Verona.

Dal 2021 è Segretario artistico della Stagione d’Opera del Teatro Grande di Brescia

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