Claudio Sgura is one of today’s foremost Italian dramatic baritons. He has electrified audiences throughout the world with his performances of Verdi and Verismo repertoire. Born in Puglia, Italy Sgura began his vocal studies in Lecce with soprano Maria Mazzotta….
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Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Maria Chiuri studied at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma before perfecting her technique with Franco Corelli. She is now one of the most sought-after mezzo-sopranos in the Italian, German and French repertoire, appearing regularly at leading…
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According to Mº Riccardo Muti she is “without doubt, the best Verdian mezzo-soprano today on the planet”. Born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, she studied piano at the Mukhran Machavariani School and singing at the Vano-Sarajishvili Conservatory under the…
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Francesco Izzo is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. His research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century Italian opera. He has published numerous articles in leading academic journals and various collections of essays, often focusing on the work of Giuseppe…
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Acclaimed as one of the greatest singers at present on the world lyric scene, Michele Pertusi was born in Parma, where he studied the piano and singing at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory. Then, he continued his studies under the guidance…
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Roberto Abbado, awarded the prestigious “Premio Abbiati” by the Italian Music Critics Association, is Musical Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and, from 2018, of Parma’s Festival Verdi. He studied orchestra conducting under Franco Ferrara…
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Candida Mantica is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton, and the Managing Editor of the Edizione Critica delle Opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Casa Ricordi). She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Musicology from the University of Pavia/Cremona and…
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First of all, how are you? You are one of the Opera singers that kept her distance from the social media and didn’t express much her opinion on what was going on during these three difficult months for the whole…
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Born in Verdi’s Land (Terre Verdiane), in Parma, Marco Spotti studied in his hometown at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito, where he took his first steps towards a decisive and important career at the Music Academy. The meeting with Maestro Carlo…
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Aurelia Florian was born in Romania where she completed her musical studies (voice and piano) at the Transylvanian University Brașov. She has won several vocal competitions, among them the First Prize at the Hariclea Darclée Competition in Romania and the…
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