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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Annalisa Stroppa is one of the most distinguished young mezzo-sopranos, having conquered the world’s most prestigious opera houses in just a few years. She studied singing at the Conservatory “L. Marenzio” of Brescia. She is a winner of various competitions,…
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Kristine Opolais is one of the most sought-after sopranos on the international scene today, with a firmly established reputation amongst the world’s pre-eminent singing actresses, combining lustrous tone and fierce dramatic intensity. Opolais appears at the Metropolitan Opera in New…
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First of all, thank you again, dear Riccardo, for accepting my invitation! We are honoured to have an interview with you, one of the shiniest stars of the opera’s new generation, in the 2nd number of our Magazine. You started…
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Since the first years of his activity, Giampaolo Bisanti is invited constantly to conduct at the major opera houses and theatres in Italy and, at the same time, he had already the occasion to perform and collect successes abroad. Most…
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