A few words about...
Conducted since 2007 by Stefano Visconti, the Choir of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo is composed of forty singers. In addition to the Opéra de Monte-Carlo season, the chorus collaborates with the Principality’s other cultural entities such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Ballets de Monte-Carlo. The Choir of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo participates in the Opéra de Monte-Carlo productions abroad (La traviata in Antibes, La Favorite, Guillaume Tell and Simon Boccanegra at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées…).
They also perform in chamber music ensembles, in a large repertoire, as well as in concert, covering all genres: from sacred music to cross-over projects designed to attract the widest pos-sible audience. The Monte Carlo Opera Chorus is regularly invited in France and abroad to take part in various festivals, tours or opera seasons: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Royal Opera House of Oman, Chorégies d’Orange, Opéra de Marseille, Tokyo, Osaka, Messina, Athens and recently at the Vienna Staatsoper for a Rossini Mania Festival.
Born in Livorno in 1960, Stefano Visconti studied piano, choral conducting with Fosco Corti and Roberto Gabbiani and orchestral conducting with Piero Bellugi and Giancarlo Andretta. He has been a chorus master at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo since 2007. Previously he was chorus master at the Theatre of Livorno (1991-2001) and director of choir at the Opéra-Théâtre of Avignon (2001-2007), while being chorus master at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago from 1999 to 2015. From 1984 to 2001 he directed the Guido-Monaco Polyphonic Choir of Livorno, which won various awards. In 2000 he founded the Chamber Choir of Tuscany, which consists of professional singers. He has conducted the reconstruction of the complete sacred works for soloists, choir and orchestra of Giuseppe Cambini. Since 2008, Stefano Visconti has been chorus master of the Soirées lyriques de Sanxay. He is artistic and musical director of the Monte Carlo Chamber Choir. He has made several recordings for Foné, Agora and Kikko Classic, notably of numerous operas by Mascagni.
Stefano Visconti
CHOirMASTER
Aurelio Scotto
Pianist/Assistant to the chorus master/ Consultant for the musical organisation
Colette Audat
CHORUS MANAGER/LIBRARIAN
Sopranos I
Galia Bakalov
Antonella Cesario
Chiara Iaia
Giovanna Minniti
Felicity Murphy
Leslie Visco
Sopranos II
Rossella Antonacci
VITTORIA GIACOBAZZI
Valérie Marret
Letizia Pianigiani
Laura Maria Romo Contreras
Mezzosopranos
Teresa Bramwell Davies
Géraldine Mélac
Suma Mellano
Federica Spatola
Altos
ORNELLA CORVI
MARIA-Elisabetta De Giorgi
Catia Pizzi
Paola Scaltriti
Rossella Tortora
Tenors I
Walter Barbaria
Lorenzo Caltagirone
Giandomenico Cappuccio
Thierry Di Meo
Vincenzo Di Nocera
Nicolo’ La Farciola
Tenors II
Gianni Cossu
Pasquale Ferraro
Fabio Marzi
Adolfo Scotto Di Luzio
Salvatore Taiello
BarItonEs
Przemyslaw Baranek
Fabio Bonavita
Vincenzo Cristofoli
Kyle Sullivan
Basses
stefano arnaudo
daniele del bue
Paolo Marchini
Edgardo Rinaldi
Matthew Thistleton