Lloyd Webber The Phantom of the Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. Lloyd Webber has had shows running continually in the West End for 50 years. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings. Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed anthems for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and for two Olympic ceremonies, including “Amigos Para Siempre”, the official song of the 1992 summer games in Barcelona. He wrote “Let Us Love In Peace” for the aftermath of the attacks on The World Trade Centre, wrote and performed “Sing” with Gary Barlow at Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, and curated musical theatre performances for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert in June 2022. In May 2023, a new anthem composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber was performed at the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.

Charles Hart was born in London and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. He has written lyrics for musicals (The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, The Kissing-Dance, The Dreaming), opera (The Vampyr,  BBC TV) and miscellaneous songs, as well  as both lyrics and music for television (Watching, Split Ends, Granada TV) and radio (Love Songs, BBC Radio). His Two Studies for String Quartet were performed by the Sacconi Quartet in 2005 at London’s Purcell Room. Charles Hart’s photographs have appeared on posters and in playbills, as well as publications ranging from Attitude to The Daily Telegraph, and in 2003 he was one of three photographers to feature in an exhibition organised by UNICEF to celebrate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. He lives and works in London.

Richard Stilgoe lives in Surrey (where he was born) and has five children and two grand-children. He writes songs, runs the Orpheus Trust and is involved in music education – most recently the Stilgoe Family Concerts (Royal Festival Hall) and the National Foundation for Youth Music. He was brought up in Liverpool and progressed through St Agnes Church Choir and the Cavern Club to the Cambridge Footlights. Singing his songs in pubs and clubs led to appearances on the Today programme in the 1960s, and thence to Nationwide and That’s Life, as well as several series of his own. In the 1980s he was involved in the writing of Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, which continue to play all over the world. Cats and Starlight Express were the longest and second-longest running shows in British theatre history. Schools perform his musicals Bodywork and Brilliant the Dinosaur and a new work, Exit Allan, was performed at the International Festival of Musicals at Cardiff in 2002. He has presented the Schools Proms since 1988, and made his 200th appearance on Countdown. In 1982, Richard and Peter Skellern appeared in the Royal Variety Performance. Standing star-struck in the wings watching Ethel Merman, they said, “We really ought to do something together”. Nothing happened until 1984, when the Lord’s Taverners brought them together for what has become an enduring part-time double act. They have toured the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Rome and Stockholm. The year 2000 saw the first of several fare-well tours, and an appearance together at the Royal Variety Performance. In 1998, Richard founded the Orpheus Centre, which provides opportunities for disabled people to take part in the performing arts. Its students now appear all over the country, including the Royal Opera House, the Notting Hill Carnival and the Glastonbury Festival. He has two Tony nominations, three Monte Carlo Prizes, a Prix Italia, an Honorary Doctorate and an O.B.E. He was recently President of the Lord’s Taverners. His hobbies are architecture, demolition (he owns a Komatsu P.C.120 digger), cricket, sailing and his family, none of whom told him he was going to be the subject of This is Your Life in 2001.

His theatre credits as director include Dirty Dancing (Phoenix and Dominion Theatres West End), A Familia Addams* (São Paulo), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (Milan, Madrid), Ghost* (Madrid, Italy, Mexico City), An American in Paris* (Genoa), Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins** (Milan, Rome), The Bodyguard** (Milan, Rome, Spain), West Side Story** (Milan, Genoa, Florence), Fame (Milan. Also translator), Disney’s Newsies (Milan), Dirty Dancing (Italy, Mexico, Spain, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Luxemburg, Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Austria), Sunset Boulevard and American Bar (Todi),  Sugar – based on the screenplay Some Like It Hot (Italy), Titanic – The Tale of A Dream (Italy. Also author and composer), Flashdance (Italy), 8 times Academy Award Winner Alan Menken Piano Concert (Milan), Disney’s High School Musical, Little Shop of Horrors and Grease (Italy), Annie (Italy. Also translator). In the theatre he has also worked as a writer and composer in St. Valentine’s Night (Ernesto Calindri Award), Peter Pan, Dance Lessons and as a performer in Cinderella (Prince Charming), Caffè Esperanto (Lead), Hello, Dolly!. He was Artistic Director of the Teatro Nazionale in Milan and the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome for Stage Entertainment Italia. *Also Set Designer. **Also Co-Executive Producer.

Theatre includes: as Musical Supervisor, Musical Director and Orchestrator: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan), We Will Rock You (Milan), Sunset Boulevard (Todi Festival), Sweet Charity (Milan), The Producers (Milan), The Sound of Music (Milan), Pinocchio (Milan), Singin’ in the Rain (Milan), Dance (Milan), Little Shop of Horror (Milan), Some Like It Hot (Milan), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Milan, Paris), A Chorus Line (Milan), Grease (Milan), Hello Dolly! (Milan), Robin Hood* (Milan), Aladdin* (Milan), Gran Varietà for Arturo Brachetti Show (Milan). Opera includes: as Musical Supervisor and Consultant: La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, La rondine, Le Villi, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Salomé, Rigoletto, La traviata (Symphonic Opera Seasons at Lucca and Torre del Lago). TV includes: music teacher for the talent TV show Amici; conductor and arranger for X-Factor Italy; assistant musical director for the talent show Kids Got Talent on Sky. Film includes: as Musical Supervisor: Come Se Fosse Amore and Totò Sapore by Medusa Production Movie Company. Also the author of the soundtrack of several short films for the same production company. He is the founder and artistic director of Torino Musical Academy. Training: he graduated from the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Turin (piano, conducting, ensemble music and composition). *Also co-author

Theatre as Choreographer: Die Lustige Witwe (Milan), Once (Milan and tour), Kinky Boots (Madrid), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan, Madrid), Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Milan), Disney’s Newsies (Milan), Disney’s High School Musical (Milan), Dirty Dancing (Italy, West End, Germany, Spain, Austria, Monte Carlo, Mexico, Belgium, Luxembourg, France), Cabaret, Special 20th Anniversary of Grease, Cinderella, Frankenstein Junior (Mel Brooks), Happy Days, Grease, Sugar – Some Like It Hot, Little Shop of Horrors, Annie, Next to Normal, Ragtime, Evita, Titanic, West Side Story, Bernada Alba, Nine, Oklahoma, Crazy For You, Nine, The Witches of Eastwick, Lucky Stiff, The Wild Party, Robin Hood, Anything Goes, All Shook Up, Footloose, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Toc Toc a Time For Musical. TV as Dancer: Fantastico 4, Te Lo Do Io Il Brasil, Tastomatto, Chi Tiriamo in Ballo. TV as Choreographer: Ci Vediamo Su Rai 1, Music Zoo, Spot Lactacyd, Emilio, Drive In. Videoclip as Choreographer: Clan 537 video music, The Prostate Song. She teaches modern jazz, tap and musical theatre at The Bernstein School of Musical Theatre BSMT Bologna. She has founded and is choreographer of the tap dance company ’Tappers’. She was nominated at the Italian Musical Awards as best Choreography for Disney’s Newsies, Cabaret and Dirty Dancing and she was nominated as Best Choreography for Kinky Boots (Spain). Winner of the Musical Awards 2016 with Newsies, winner of the Best Choreography for Dirty Dancing (Spain) and nominated Best Choreography for Kinky Boots (Spain). Training: Laine Theatre of Arts, The Royal Academy, The Imperial Society of Teachers of London.

Theatre as Set Designer: The Magic Flute (Mantua), Manon Lescaut (Naples). Theatre as Co-Set Designer: A Familia Addams  (São Paulo). Theatre as Associate Set Designer: Dirty Dancing (Phoenix and Dominion Theatres West End), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan, Madrid), Ghost (Madrid, Italy, Mexico City), An American in Paris (Genoa), La Cage aux Folles, Funny Girl, Vacanze Romane. TV as Set Designer: I fatti vostri. Training: Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Accademia di Belle Arti in Roma.

Theatre, Opera and Dance as Costume Designer:  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan, Madrid), An American in Paris (Genoa), Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Milan, Rome), West Side Story (Genoa, Florence), Disney’s High School Musical, Cabaret, The Producers and The Sound of Music (Milan), Eugene Onegin (Tel-Aviv), La forza del destino (Paris, Barcelona), Maometto II (ROF – Rossini Opera Festival/Theater Bremen), Dialogues des Carmélites (France), Fidelio (Marseille), Manon Lescaut (Tel-Aviv), Ernani (France), I quatro Rusteghi (Paris), Madama Butterfly and La bohème (Lucerna), La traviata (France), La scala di seta (Schwetzingen Festival in DVD), Die Zauberflöte (Basel), Tre Sorelle, Woyzeck and Zio Vania (Turin), Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, Blackbird and Minnie-Ha-Ha (Milan) Les Femmes savantes, Les Amants timides (Geneva), Arsenico e i vecchi merletti (Versiliana Festival, Rome), Servo di scena, Così è (se vi pare) and Testimone d’accusa (Rome), Cenerentola (Milan). Musical as Costume Designer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan, Madrid), An American in Paris (Genoa), Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Milan, Rome), West Side Story (Genoa, Florence), Disney’s High School Musical, Cabaret, The Producers and The Sound of Music (Milan). Theatre, Opera and Dance as Assistant Costume Designer: Norma (Naples, Palma de Maiorca), Aida (Beijing), Tosca (Milan, Astana), La donna del lago (Paris), Mireille (Paris), Così fan tutte (Milan), Un ballo in maschera (Paris), Macbeth (Modena), Dido and Aeneas (Cremona), Falstaff (Florence), Moïse et Pharaon (Milan), L’Amour des trois oranges (Paris), Aida (Turin), Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra, Le Comte Ory and Armida (Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro), La serva padrona (Milan), Così fan tutte (Milan), Samson et Dalila (Turin), Fierrabras (Florence), Falstaff (Salzburg Festival), Lodoiska, Oberon, Fetonte, La sonnambula, Aida (Milan), Cendrillon (Bruxelles), Carmen (Paris), Macbeth (Modena), La vita è sogno and Il sogno (Milan), Sturm und Drang, Ruy Blas (Florence, Turin), Swan Lake, Romeo e Giulietta (Kazakhstan), Azabache (Seville), Der Blaue Engel (Berlin). Since 2003 she has taught History of Costume Design at the Accademia di Arti e mestieri of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Winner of Premio Gassman for Costumes for the musical Cabaret in 2007. Training: Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Musical as Lighting Designer: Dirty Dancing (West End – Dominion Theater), Charlie e La Fabrica de Chocolate (Madrid), Kinky Boots (Madrid - Espacio Delicias), Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Milan), Kinky Boots (Spain), Legally Blonde (Italian Tour), Once (Italian Tour), Ghost (Italy, Spain), La Fabbrica di Cioccolato (Milan), Dirty Dancing (West End & International tour), West Side Story (Genoa Opera House, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), The Bodyguard, La Divina Commedia, Newsies, American Idiot, Rent, Next To Normal, Dirty Dancing, Frankenstein Jr, Priscilla, Gypsy, Cenerentola, Happy Days, Cats, The Producers, Grease, Cabaret, Il giorno della tartaruga, Stanno suonando la nostra canzone, Promises Promises, A Chorus Line, Disney’s High School Musical (Milan/Rome and Italian Tour), Pinocchio (Seoul, NYC). The Mission (Seoul), Flashdance, Rugantino (Italian Tour, Broadway). Dance as Lighting Designer: Beethoven Immortal Love (Astana), Alice in Wonderland (Tallinn), La Valse, Immemoria (Teatro alla Scala), Serata Sacra, Swan Lake (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Waves (Teatro alla Scala). Since 2014 he is technical supervisor and lighting designer for Roberto Bolle & Friends’ Gala (Opera Rome, Verona Arena, Italian and International Tour) and On Dance from 2019 to date. Opera as Lighting Designer: Lucia di Lammermoor, Samson et Dalila (Naples), Ariadne auf Naxos, I due Foscari (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Naples), Fidelio, Die Fledermaus (Florence Opera), Hamlet (Saint-Etienne Opera), La Fille du régiment (Cagliari), Orphée et Euridice (Cagliari), La fanciulla del West (Seoul), La Cenerentola (Modena, Toulon), Don Carlo (St.Gallen), Andrea Chénier (Italy, France), Lucia di Lammermoor (Tenerife) Nabucco (Teatro Massimo, Palermo), Le malentendu (Sferisterio Opera Festival), Il viaggio a Reims (Reims, Toulouse, Avignon, Marseille), Il Farnace (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) Norma (Sassari), L’elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Teatro alla Scala). Theatre as Lighting Designer: Molto Rumore per Nulla, Van Gogh, Don Giovanni, Amleto, XII Notte, Il Piacere dell’ onestà, Allegre Comari di Windsor, Costellazioni, Cyrano de Bergerac (Teatri Stabili, Italian Tour). Fashion shows: Valentino, Ermenegildo Zegna, Krizia, Dolce&Gabbana, Il Gufo, Pal Zileri, Spyder, Elisabetta Franchi, Ramzen, Capasa Milano. Installations: permanent lighting of the San Gottardo church in Milan for the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo and curator of the lighting of all the temporary art exhibitions within the same. From 2009 to 2018 he worked as Assistant Lighting Designer for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Since 2006 he has taught lighting engineering at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Winner of Oscar Italiano of the Musical, Best Lighting Design in 2015 for Frankenstein Jr and in 2016 for Cabaret.

Musical as Sound Designer, Sound Technician, Sound Chief, Sound Engineer: Company (Madrid), Singin’ in the Rain (Barcelona), La Tienda de los Horrores (Barcelona), La Jaula de las Locas (Madrid), Carmina Burana (Barcelona), La note d’à côté (Barcelona), Molt soroll per no res, Frank V (Barcelona), El Petit Princep (Barcelona), Mar i cel, Un Jeta, dos Jefes (Barcelona), Follies (Madrid), Grease (Barcelona, Madrid), Hair (Madrid), Carmina Burana (Lyon), La bella Helena (Barcelona), The Mass (festivals of Peralada, Sagunto and Santiago de Compostela), Prometeu (Barcelona), El Balcon (Madrid), Electra, L’Auca del senyor Esteve, Groucho me enseño su camiseta (Spain), Sweeney Todd (Madrid), Que (Barcelona), Fall and Rise of the City of Mahagonny (Madrid), The Full Monty (Barcelona), Little Night Music (Peralada), Les 1001 Nuits, Paradís. Theatre as Sound Designer, Sound Technician, Technical Director, Technical Producer: Yerma (Barcelona), Romancero Gitano (Madrid), Medea (Barcelona), In Memoriam (Barcelona), El Rei Lear (Barcelona), Safari Pitarra, El Caballero de Olmedo (Barcelona), Adiós a la Infancia (Barcelona), L’Auca del Born (Barcelona), Atraco,Paliza y Muerte en Agbanäspach (Barcelona), L’Estranger (Barcelona), Una Historia Catalana, Quan despertem abans dels morts (Barcelona), Aventura (Barcelona), Woyzeck, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Celebración (Barcelona), Delicades, Luces de Bohemia, Agosto, Grimejies, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth (Madrid), Blanco (Barcelona), Circ Crac, Temps Real, La Nit, Mobil, Le Troiane (Syracuse), A Electra le sienta bien el luto, Home de teatre, Genova01, La Orestiada, Cançons dedicades, Fedra,  Zona Zero, Sallinger, Fa Mi Re, Cara de foc, El Ball, Bernadeta Xoc, La Nit de les Mil Llunes, Instintos Ocultos, Faust  Versió 3.0, Circ Crac (Sant Esteve de Palautordera),  Circ Crac, Miratges, Mentides  i Misteris, Monti y Cia, Clowns, Clàssics, Llibre de les Bèsties, Antologia, 100 pel 2000, La Gran Repris (Girona). TV as Sound Technician, Sound Director, Head of Sound, Head of TV Sound, Head of Dish Sound: Las 3 Puertas, Premios Goya 2021 (Malaga), OT 2019, Dancing with the Stars, OT 2017, Santa Llucia, Ahora Caigo, Premis Conca 2016, Premis Nacionals de Cultura 2015, Los Algos, H13, El Bus, Gest-Music, Si l’encerto l’endevino, Crónicas Marcianas. Special Events as Sound Design, Technical Director, Head of Sound: Catalunya Aixeca el Teló 2022, ESLAND Awards, Culture Awards 2016, Princess of Girona Awards 2015-2016- 2017-2018, Omnium Cultural Awards 2017- 2018-2019, A Tocar (Barcelona), Tragedia (Barcelona), La Ciudad Inventada, A Mid-summer Night’s Dream, Higroma, closing show of the EXPO2005 Aichi, Cancionero de Palacio, Sarau (Mexico), SGAE 100 years (Madrid). Live Music as Sound Technician, Sound Manager, Technical Director, Sound Designer, Head of Monitors: Orlando (Peralda), Nacho Cano (Plazo del Sol), Gira OT, Manu Guix, Festival Circ Cric, Projecte PP, Dr. Músic Festival Circus Village, Diseño de Sonido Quintet Lisboa, The One and Only Blues Band. Projects: Professor of Sound at the Institut del Teatre 2017-2022., Sound design for Teatre Akademia, Acoustic Design by Mago Pop, Nada es Imposible Theatre Victoria Barcelona for Adamsom-  Seesound., AVID members in development of VENUE and S6L series, DPA Master´s Club (probador en I+D). Winner of: Butaca for Best Sound Design for: El Caballero de Olmedo, Molt Soroll per no res, In Memoriam, Cantando bajo la lluvia. Gran Vía Musical for: Sweeney Todd, Mar i cel, Scaramouche, La Tienda de los Horrores, Company. Teatre musical. CAT for Company.

Theatre as Magic Consultant, Magic Performer, Sand Art Performer, Artistic Consultant and  Director: Winx Club Musical Show, Flashdance, Brachetti and Friends, Brachetti che sorpresa!, Solo, Gardaland, Madagascar Live!. Theatre as Special Effects Creator: Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Milan, Rome), Ghost (Madrid, Italy), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan, Madrid), Houdini. TV and other as Magic. Consultant, Magic Performer, Sand Art Performer, Art Director: Fenomenal, Zelig, Zelig Circus, Volo in Diretta, Masters of Magic, Striscia la notizia, Music Video, Radio magic, Tu Si Que Vales. Productions as Shows and Entertainments Manager, Art director, Performer and Director: Ibiza Twins, Apocalypse Live Experience. He was sand and shadows art performer for Costa Crociere and Shows and Entertainments Manager, HR Manager, Show Writer, Show Director, Lighting Designer, Sand Art Performer, Magic Performer, Theme Park Conceptual Consultant, “Madagascar Live!” Director for Gardaland. He was awarded the Honour of Knight for artistic merit.

Musical Director, Composer and Arranger for many artists and Musical Theatre: Beauty and the Beast, Estamos en el Aire, Annie, Jekyll & Hyde, La Jaula de Las Locas, Zorba, My Fair Lady, El Fantasma de la Opera, Victor Victoria, Los Productores, Quisiera Ser, Grease, Spamalot, Cantame Como Paso – TV1, Avenue Q, EL Ultimo Jinete, Sonrisas y Lagrimas, Ay Carmela, Priscilla Reina del Desierto, Lady be Good (Teatro de la Zarzuela), Jesucristo Super Star, Evita, Priscilla Reina del Desierto, Stage Holding 15th Anniversary, Nine, Iba En Serio, El Hombre de la Mancha, Sunset Boulevard, Sensible, Grandes Exitos, 33, El Jovencito Frankenstein, Ghost, El Guardaespaldas, Ghost (Italy & Mexico), El Guardaespaldas, Anfitrión, Eduardo Segundo, ojos de niebla, Bla Bla Coche, La Coartada, En Tierra Extraña, Kinky Boots, El Peligro De Las Buenas Compañías, Charlie And the Chocolate Factory. Arranger/Producer/Composer for the Grammy Award winners Paloma San Basilio, Isabel Pantoja, La Guardia, John Cameron. He is member of Paul Wertico Quartet and he has recorded over 30 CDs as pianist and arranger for various artists. He plays with famous musicians including Juanjo Dominguez, Nestor Marconi, Juan Alberto Pugliano, Mariana, Óscar de la Torre, Ramón Arcusa, Machan Taylor, Mike Rivas, Carlos Marzan, Alberto Favero, Peter Erskine, Paul Wertico, Mark Egan, John Patittucci, Joan Valent, Horacio Banegas, Bruce Pomahac, Paloma San Basilio, Isabel Pantoja, El Dúo Dinamico, Albert Hammond, John Cameron, Barry Mason, La Guardia, Stephen “Spud” Murphy, Michael Ruff, Jorge Javier Vazquez, Isabel Pantoja, Juan Carlos Rubio, Jaime Azpilicueta, Esteve Ferrer, David Steward, Antonio Banderas, Diana Navarro, Omara Portuondo, Pastora Soler. Films: García! HBO Max original series, Velazquez, El Poder y el Arte, El Inconveniente, Intermedio, Veronica (the Movie), All My Guardian Angels, Oscar Desafinado, El Negociador, Todos Mis Padres. TV: García! La Serie – HBO in October, Noches En Blanco y Negro “Antonio Banderas” Amazon, La Ultima Cena Tele5 España, Cantame Como Paso TV1 España, Alcalá Club Telemadrid España, Movete Con Carmen Barbieri 1999 (Canal 2 Televisión Argentina), Tango 2000 1999 (Canal 7 Television Argentina), Siete días 1997 (Canal 7 Televisión Argentina), A la Cama Con Yuyito 1998 (Canal 7 Television Argentina), Tribuna Caliente 1998 (Canal 7 Televisión Argentina), La noche del Domingo 1994 -1998 (Canal 7 Televisión Argentina), Folclorisimo 1996-1999 (Canal 7 Television Argentina), El gran debut 1993 -1999 (Canal 7 Television Argentina). Records: Composer and Producer Flash & Shadow, Producer Canciones Que Me Gustan, Producer Mas Cerca, Composer and Producer Amistad Imperfecta, Frontera Cero, Nada que declarar, Thousand Miles, Indecisión, After Dark, Pasional, Avenue Q, Sound Of Music (RTVE Symphony Orchestra, original Spanish cast), Quisiera Ser (original Spanish cast), My Fair Lady (original Spanish cast), 33 (original Spanish cast), Grandioso Cristo, Sensible, La Buena Gente, Tumbado al Borde de la Luna, 25 años no es nada, Sobre Ruedas, Ahora, Catorce rios pequeños, Iniciando Sesión, Te lo Juro yo, La Bien Paga, Castillito de Arena, La rosa del pecado, Cortes de amor, Nunca fuera Caballero, Ayer hoy y siempre, Frases de Libertad, Denudando el Tiempo, Nos Van a oir, Ritmo Latino. Awards For Best Musical Conductor: Sonrisas y Lagrimas; Iba en Serio and Jorge Javier Vazquez; Broadway World Award for PriscillaRreina del Desierto. Awards For Best Soundtrack: Festival de Sonceca for the Best Soundtrack with Intermedio. Training: National Conservatory Lopez Buchardo. He also studied Composition, Arrangements and Orchestra Conducting.

Rinaldo Rinaldi and Maria Grazia Cervetti both graduated in scenography from the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna. As students and collaborators, their first experiences were with Koki Fregni. As supporters of the “pittura di scena” as a form of art, they have dedicated themselves to experimentation in the scenic field, with the objective of combining the great Italian tradition with new expressive techniques to be applied to large dimensions. Over the years they have expanded their scope as sketch designers to encompass all forms of theatrical expression: opera, ballet, plays, musicals. They have contributed their work to prestigious Italian and European theatres and directors such as Luca Ronconi, Dario Fô, Pierluigi Pizzi, Peter Greenaway, Peter Sellars, Michael Haneke, Graham Vick, Bob Wilson.

Film/theatre/television/advertising professional. He began his teaching career in the field of Special Make Up at the Carlo Rambaldi European Academy of Special Effects. For several years he attended the “Make-up and Theatrical Mask” course that was part of the biennial scenography course at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. He currently teaches the annual course he created for the Accademia alla Scala in Milan and in the various annual programmes of Artistic Make-up: special effects of make-up and masks. Even today he continues his professional collaborations as well as pursuing his passion to transmit the latest artistic techniques to Special Make-up Artists and prepare them for a career in their chosen field.

Musicals as Associate Director: Ghost (Mexico DF, Madrid and Spanish tour), Bodyguard (Spanish tour). Musicals as Resident Director: Addams Family (Madrid and Spanish tour), Young Frankenstein (Madrid), Ghost Spain (Madrid 2019/2020 and 2021/2022, Spanish tour production), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Madrid). Musicals as Casting Director: Bodyguard, Kinky Boots, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Phantom of the Opera. As Stage Director in ESAD: Lucky Stiff, Nunsense, Urinetown, Into the Woods, Spring Awakening, Pippin, Curtains, Wild Party, 9 to 5. She also creates and directs several shows and special events. She directs and is the author of the book of the musical Cada Camino for intellectually disabled performers. She directs the opera La Bohème, two musicals for children La Varita mágica and Los Batautos y el 42 de Septubre and stage concerts of Man of La Mancha and Ragtime. She is also artistic director of the national spot TV for the presentation of the show La Voz 2019 for Atresmedia. Teacher: Musical Theatre acting teacher at the College School of Performing Arts of Murcia (ESAD), Coordinator of Musical Theatre studies and member of the team developing the new Bolonia Programme of studies of the College. Workshops at universities and Performing Arts Schools in Spain, as well as at Regent’s University, London, Rose Bruford College, London (United Kingdom) and JAMU in Brno (Czech Republic). Training: BFA in Performing Arts in Spain, Scholarship to study Musical Theatre at the “American Musical & Dramatic Academic” (AMDA), New York (2000-2002).

Theatre: Choreographer in A Familia Addams (São Paulo, Brazil); Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Madrid). Assistant choreographer and Grisette in The Merry Widow (Italy); Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Italy); Lise Dassin in An American In Paris (Italy); Swing on stage in Mary Poppins (Italy). Assistant choreographer in Dirty Dancing (Italy, West End - London, Spain, Mexico). Assistant choreographer, dance captain, Graziella, Puerto Rican in West Side Story (Italy); Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar (Italy and European tour); Iris Kelly in Fame The Musical (Italy); Ensemble in Sunset Boulevard; Ladies, The Musical; Mrs. Stella/Skunk in Cappuccetto Rosso The Musical; Ensemble in Titanic, the Musical; Sugar a qualcuno piace caldo (Italy). TV: dancer in Crozza nel paese delle meraviglie. Training: SDM - La Scuola del musical, Ballet: Royal Academy of Dance, London, and graduate of Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Seminar with Francesca De Sapio.

Opera: Assistant and Associate: Die Fledermaus, Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), L’elisir d’amore, La Fille du régiment (Festival Donizetti Opera 2021), Il piccolo Spazzacamino (Teatro alla Scala).Musicals: Assistant and Associate: Dirty Dancing (West End, UK Tour, German Tour, Italy), Kinky Boots (Spain), Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins (Milan, Rome), Ghost (Spain, Italy, Mexico), Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Milan, Madrid), West Side Story (Milano, Genoa, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), The Bodyguard (Italy, Spain), Newsies (Milan), Priscilla la Regina del Deserto (Italy), Madagascar the Musical (Italy), Piccole donne (Italy). Dance: Assistant and Associate: Gala Roberto Bolle and Friends and On Dance Festival created by Roberto Bolle. Theatre: Assistant and Associate: Molto rumore per nulla, Il Mago di Oz (Turin). Fashion shows: Assistant and Associate: Valentino, Ermenegildo Zegna, Krizia, Dolce&Gabbana, Il Gufo, Pal Zileri, Spyder. Opera as Lighting Designer: Chiara e Serafina (Festival Donizetti 2022, Bergamo), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Rai5, Catania), Le nozze di Figaro (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), L’impresario in angustie, opening work of the 43rd Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano. Musicals as Lighting Designer: Everybody’s Talking About Jaime (Rome), Legally Blonde* (Italy), A Familia Addams* (Sao Paolo), Dimmi Addio Domenica (Compagnia della Rancia), Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie (Tour 2019/2020), Love Story (Tour 2017/2018), Vernia o non Vernia (Tour 2018/2019); Into the Woods (Rome and Festival di Jesi). Since 2016 he has worked with The Bernstein School of Musical Theatre for Bring it On, Dogfight, Something Rotten, Nine, Little Shop of Horrors, Cookies il musical, Footloose, Giardino Segreto, Crazy for You, Bernarda Alba, Assassins, All Shook Up, Le streghe di Eastwick, Big Fish, Spring Awakening, Chicago, Jekyll & Hyde, City of Angels, Oklahoma. Since 2019 he has worked with SDM in Milan for 9to5, Sweet Charity, The Wedding Singer. Dance as Lighting Designer: Coppelia, Cenerentola e Galà di Danza Sondrio. Theatre as Lighting Designer: Buoni a Nulla (Milano), Attimo Fuggente*. He curated the lighting design of D’Incanto, for the re-opening ceremony of the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, and the architectural lighting for Stresa Festival for the Patti Smith Quartet concert at the Tecnoparco in Verbania. Since 2015 he teaches lighting engineering and CAD design at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Training: Lighting Design at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. *Also Co-designer

Ramin Karimloo is currently starring in Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway playing the role of Nicky Arnstein. He portrayed King Arthur in Camelot in Concert (London Palladium), Shams in Rumi: The Musical (London Coliseum), Anatoly in Chess in Concert (Umeda, Osaka and Tokyo), Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert (Tokyo), Doctor Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago: Concert (London Palladium & Cadogan Hall, London), Che in Evita (Tokyo & Vancouver), Anatoly in the 2018 Kennedy Center production of Chess, Gleb Vaganov in Anastasia (Broadway), Tom in Murder Ballad (London), Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden (NYC), White Rabbit Red Rabbit (NYC), Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Toronto, London & NYC), Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, Phantom in Love Never Dies (London), Prince of Broadway (World Premiere at Theatre Orb, Tokyo and the Umeda Arts Theatre, Osaka), Chris in Miss Saigon, Enjolras in Les Misérables, Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. Ramin Karimloo has performed as part of the Festival of Remembrance for BBC1 two years running. In addition to his stage credits, Ramin has toured the world performing concerts both as a solo artist and with his band, Ramin Karimloo & The Broadgrass Band. He has released six solo albums; From Now On & Human Heart with Sony Records and The Road to Find Out: East, The Road to Find Out: South, The Road to Find Out: North and The Road to Find Out: West with Westway Music.

Amelia is a classically trained soprano, actress, singer-songwriter and dancer. She has been blessed with a versatile voice that spans across many genres from opera to Broadway to pop. She has had the honour and privilege of performing alongside many great talents including Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, David Foster, and Kristen Chenoweth. In addition, her powerful vocals can be heard on several movie soundtracks, such as Les Misérables and Il Giorno Più Bello. She recently graduated with honours from both Brown University and Università di Bologna, where she studied Theatre Arts & Performance Studies and Italian Language & History. She also studied acting at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford in association with the Yale School of Drama. She has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, The Barclays Center, CitiField, the FedExForum, and opera festivals throughout Italy. Amelia is incredibly passionate about music in all of its forms and is currently working on her own pop album as well as writing for several up and coming artists. She is thrilled to be debuting debuting at the Monte-Carlo Opera in her dream role of Christine Daaé.

Vinny Coyle studied at Arts Educational Schools in London. His credits during his formative years include Bobby Strong in Urinetown, General Patterson in Big Fish and Scaphio in Utopia, Limited. He was also part of the cast of The Flood at the National Youth Theatre. His theatre credits include Hugo/Alex (cover) in Aspects of Love at the Lyric Theatre, Yash/Davenport in The Government Inspector at the Turbine Theatre, Young Buddy in Follies in Tangier, The Baker/Arthur in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Policeman in The Pit, Raoul (cover) in The Phantom of the  Opera (UK & Ireland Tour), Feuilly/Enjolras (cover)in Les Misérables, The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre), Chris (cover)/John in Miss Saigon on tour in the UK, Grantaire (cover)/Factory Foreman in  Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre.  Credits for ’cast recordings’ include: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella (Original cast album), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (The 2020 cast recording). Other works include: Arnaud de Tilh in Martin Guerre Workshop, Vlad in Drag Addict Workshop, Jason in Jason and the Argonauts Work-shop, Friday Night Is Music Night concert for BBC Radio 2, and various performances at the Olivier Awards.

Earl Carpenter’s theatre credits include Prime Minister in the world premiere of Mandela at the Young Vic; Dubdhara in Schönberg and Boublils’ The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum; Bishop of Digne and Bamatabois in the 2019 Les Misérables – The Stage Concert at the Gielgud Theatre; Lionel Solomon in The Dreamers; Maskewand Turnkey in Moonfleet at the Salisbury Playhouse, Father in the award winning production, Ragtime at the Charing Cross Theatre, London and Morrison in the Singapore Repertory Theatre’s production of Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress. Other musical theatre work has included Commander Khassoggi in Queen’s We Will Rock You, the World premiere of Zorro, Archibald Craven in the Scottish premiere of The Secret Garden, the original West End and touring productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast playing both Beast and Gaston to Bill Kenwright’s Robin, Prince of Sherwood and Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor© Dreamboat. Earl is renowned for his work as Inspector Javert in Cameron Mackintosh’s productions of Les Misérables and Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Production (London, Broadway, Toronto, Paris, Singapore, Manila and throughout the United Kingdom). He has also performed as the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Cameron Mackintosh’s original and 25th Anniversary productions of The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre and throughout the United Kingdom); Ed Parsley in the original cast and Daryl van Horne in The Witches of Eastwick (Drury Lane and Prince of Wales); Joe Gillis in the original UK tour cast of Sunset Boulevard and Peron in Bill Kenwrights’ Evita throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. He was also the Auctioneer in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Cameron Mackintosh’s 25th Anniversary Concert of The Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall) and the Bishop in Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert (02 Arena). Earl has just finished a limited run as the Phantom in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End. He was appointed Patron in 2014 and Associate Artist in 2018 to the UK’s largest independent producing and presenting house, the Mayflower Theatre. Earl is also a Visiting Professor at Solent University.

Stage Credits: Mac in 42nd Street, Lefevre and Monsieur Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera UK, Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd, Derek in Victoria Woods Acorn Antiques, Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls, Claude in The Baker’s Wife, Uncle Freddie in Bent, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd; Madam/Councillor/Old Man in Pacific Overtures; Before the Night is Through; Ko-Ko in Hot Mikado; Claude in The Baker’s Wife, Best Male Performance Nominee The OFFIES; Dames at Sea; Sleeping Beauty; Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls; Mother Superior in Nunsense; Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar; Evita; Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol; South Pacific; Ike Skidmore Oklahoma!; Steward Into the Woods; Frederic in Pirates of Penzance; Julio in Seesaw; Hareton in Wuthering Heights; The Wizard of Oz; The Recruiting Officer; Beauty and the Beast; Killing Rasputin; Happy in Death of A Salesman; The King and I. Ian Mowat regularly plays Dame in pantomime. He is thrilled about his debut at the Monte Carlo Opera. Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Carlotta Giudicelli is a soprano with an international career. She has sung the main heroines of Italian melodrama including Violetta Valéry (La Traviata) during the Verdi Festival at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto, Mimì (La Bohème) at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno, Gilda (Rigoletto), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Musetta (La Bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Magda (La rondine), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Olga Sukarev (Fedora) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Teatro Bellini in Catania, the Teatro Lirico in Lecce, the Teatro Greco in Taormina, the National Theatre of Chisinau. In 2010 she participated in a new production of the Betulia liberata (Mozart) in the role of Cabri, directed by the Maestro Riccardo Muti at the Ravenna Festival and at the Salzburg Festival. She has been invited by different festivals around the world where she has given concerts and recitals: The Muson Festival 2010 in Lagos, Nigeria, the Baghdad National Theatre on the occasion of a project supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Culture, an instrument of Peace”, in Japan in collaboration with the University of Music and Arts of Nagoya playing Clorinda in Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. She has collaborated with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Michele Mariotti, Roberto Abbado, Daniele Rustioni, Omer Welber, Matteo Beltrami, Giulio Daniele Moles and Francesco Ciluffo.

Alice Mistroni was born in Ferrara, Italy. She grew up in Sydney and graduated from A.M.D.A. (American Musical & Aramatic Academy) in New York. She moved back to Italy where she began her career. Her credits include: Legally Blonde (Brooke) Disney’s Mary Poppins (Mrs Banks), An American in Paris (Milo), Jersey Boys (Mary Delgado), Shrek (Fiona), Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Marion), Beauty & the Beast (Babette), Lady Oscar, Sugar Some Like It Hot (Susie), No Way to Treat a Lady, Peter Pan (Wendy), Grease (Rizzo). She was one of the street singers in Leonard Bernstein’s opera Mass at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. She has played the role of Eve in the concert tour of the Italian pop star Renato Zero. She has worked both on stage and on screen with many Italian celebrities such as Christian de Sica, Gianluca Guidi, Giampiero Ingrassia, Paolo Ruffini, Claudio Insegno, Marco Giallini and Francesco Paolantoni. Her film and television credits include: Grandi domani, Sospetti, Il commissario Rex 5, Tipi da crociera, Open Space, Love Snack, Arrivederci amore ciao and Fuga di cervelli. She is the Italian voice of Barbie in the cartoon movie, Barbie – La principessa e la povera. She is also an author and has signed the Italian adaptations of many musical theatre librettos such as: Mary Poppins, Newsies, Dirty Dancing, An American in Paris, We Will Rock You and Mamma Mia! (Stage Entertainment production) She is the Faculty and Artistic Director of SDM (La Scuola del musical di Milano), one of the most prestigious musical academies in Italy.

Gian Luca Pasolini debuted in 1999 at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna as Count Almaviva in Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. However, it is his later works that confirmed him as an international artist. In 2006 he was chosen personally by Zubin Mehta to celebrate his 70th birthday, with Carmina Burana at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and in 2007 he was the leading tenor in a modern opera by Fabio Vacchi, Teneke (conducted by Roberto Abbado and directed by Ermanno Olmi) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Among the more than 80 opera roles he has sung, his most notable are Mitridate (Mozart-Mitridate re di Ponto), Arturo (Bellini-I puritani), Percy (Donizetti-Anna Bolena), Riccardo (Verdi-Un ballo in maschera) and Cavaradossi (Puccini-Tosca). He has collaborated with directors and conductors such as Daniele Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Arnoud Bernard, Semyn Bychkov, Cristina Comencini, Myung Whun Chung, Paul Curran, Richard Jones, Jannis Kokkos, Einuntas Necrosius, Kazushi Ono, Donato Renzetti, Emilio Sagi, Dmitri Tcherniakov,  Lothar Zagrosek, Michail Zaniecki, Alberto Zedda and many others. His discography includes Verdi’s Requiem, Anna Bolena by Donizetti, Ero e Leando by Bottesini, and The Gambler by Prokofiev.

Zoe Nochi has been studying singing, dancing, acting and dubbing from the age of 4, perfecting herself at the Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom (London) where she was awarded the “Young Talent” scholarship in 2017. She has been working professionally in musical theatre since 2010: Alice in Wonderland directed by Christian Ginepro; Ragtime directed by Gianni Marras; I Tappers choreographed and directed by Gillian Bruce; The Sound of Music (2011-2013), Rugantino (2021), Mamma Mia! (2021-2023) and Billy Elliot (2023) directed by Massimo Romeo Piparo; Musik Macht Frei with “The Shoah’s Violin” (2023). In 2014 she won the Italian Musical Awards at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan as “the youngest musical revelation”. She was protagonist of the play Bugiardi si nasce by Giorgia Brusco from 2017 to 2018. In 2020 plays the main character, Liz Nash, in Cruel Peter by RaiCinema was released worldwide (Netflix and AmazonPrime) and in Italy, and directed by Christian Bisceglia and Ascanio Malgarini. She also took part in the TV series Petra for Sky Cinema by Maria Sole Tognazzi, alongside the Italian actress Paola Cortellesi.

Matt Bond completed his Master of Arts in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music in 2017. Since then he has appeared in shows including Jekyll & Hyde (English Theatre Frankfurt), Disney’s Broadway Hits (Royal Albert Hall), Comedy of Errors and Festive Tales (Royal Shakespeare Company), Jerry Springer: The Opera (Hope Mill Theatre Manchester) and Making A Murderer: The Musical (Edinburgh Festival) as well as directing BU21 and the brand new AI theatrical experiment PlayAI at Riverside Studios London. He is delighted to be a part of this production of The Phantom of the Opera and thanks his family, friends and agent, Simon, for helping him get here!

Jeremy was most recently seen playing Sir Alexander Fleming – the discoverer of penicillin – in The Mould That Changed the World, which enjoyed sell-out runs at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Atlas Theater in Washington, DC and The Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. His extensive musical theatre credits have included roles as diverse as English aristocrats (Me and My Girl and Jekyll & Hyde), music hall performers (Tonight at 8:30), New York cops and Salvation Army officers (Guys and Dolls) and Jewish immigrant tailors (Rags: The Musical). Jeremy Rose last worked in Italy more than 30 years ago when he played Frank’n’Furter in a UK touring production of The Rocky Horror Show in Milan. His theatre credits include: Karl in Laura (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Cousin George in Bless the Bride (Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London), Alfred Moulton-Barrett in Robert and Elizabeth (Chichester Festival Theatre), Jean-Michel (cover) in La Cage aux Folles (London Palladium), Jacey Squires in The Music Man (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Frank’n’Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour), Apostle in Jesus Christ Superstar (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Ensemble in The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance for The New D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (UK Tour), Tamino in The Magic Flute (European Tour for Music Theatre London), Rabbi Sherman in Bar Mitzvah Boy (Upstairs at the Gate), Sir Danvers Carew in Jekyll & Hyde (English Theatre, Frankfurt), George Pepper, Jasper Featherways, etc. in Tonight at 8:30. (Jermyn Street Theatre, London), Sir John Tremayne in Me and My Girl (Frinton Summer Theatre), Lieutenant Brannigan/Arvide Abernathy in Guys and Dolls (The Mill at Sonning) Jack in Rags, The Musical (The Park Theatre, London), Sir Alexander Fleming in The Mould That Changed The World (Edinburgh Fringe 2022 and US Tour).

Mark Biocca is a Scottish-Italian actor, dancer and singer and has worked all over Europe, Canada and America. After graduating from the Royal Ballet School of London he danced with the Northern Ballet in the UK and then as a soloist in Canada with both the Royal Winnipeg and Alberta Ballet companies. In 2011 he returned to Europe to join Companhia Nacional de Bailado in Lisbon and then the Hungarian State Ballet in Budapest. Mark performed in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony, on London’s West End in INALA, at the Alvin Ailey Theatre in New York in O Primo Basilio and as a guest principal dancer with the Macedonian Ballet of Skopje. Since returning to Italy in 2018 he has become one of the most accomplished musical theatre performers having played: Bernardo in West Side Story, Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain, Adam in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Patchy the Pirate, in Spongebob and Skimbleshanks in Cats. In 2023 he played the main character in the short film Singing in front of the Colosseo and toured Germany with An American in Paris. Mark Biocca is very active artistically as a coach, choreographer and director having collaborated with Arts in English, Ellington Club, Lux events and Lo Spazio Theatre.

Nicola Ciulla is an eclectic artist. He graduated in vocal studies as a tenor from the Conservatory of Palermo. From an early age he had begun with ballet and his interest then turned to acting with Ilza Prestinari. His vast repertoire spans both choral and solo works, from sacred music: Gregorian chant, lauds, motets, cantatas, oratorios and masses, to secular music: madrigals, musical comedy and canzonetta. As an actor he has starred in various shows: The Importance of Being Earnest and They Were All My Children, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Life of Galileo (Brecht) directed by Antonio Calenda and Il fiore del dolore by Mario Luzi. Thanks to an internship at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, he was part of the cast of the musical Guys and Dolls. He has been present in various Italian productions such as Il Conte di Montecristo, Alice in Wonderland, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Newsies, a musical by Disney, directed by Francesco Bellone. Since 2016 his roles as actor at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan have include working with various directors such Robert Carsen, Debrah Warner, Davide Livermore, Mario Martone, Leo Muscato. As a director he has staged La Dirindina (Scarlatti) and Don Chisciotte (Padre Martini), The Errors of Amadè (Gregoretti), Rosalba e Il Maestro (D’Amico), Tutta colpa degli uomini (Nandini). He was also assistant director for L’Ape musicale (Da Ponte).

Actor and songwriter, Luca Gaudiano was born in Foggia, Italy in 1991. He has been passionate about music since he was a child, when he received an acoustic guitar as a gift from his father. After completing his classical studies, he graduated from the Da.Re.C Academy under the artistic direction of Maestro Gino Landi. He made his debut with the musical Rent in 2016 at the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome. In January 2017, he was Will in Green Day’s American Idiot directed by Marco Iacomelli; in September of the same year he played Lucifer in the opera S. Michele – L’angelo dell’Apocalisse, directed by Andrea Palotto. During the 2019/2020 season he played the Subway Ghost in the musical Ghost directed by Federico Bellone. On March 5, 2021 he won the 71st Sanremo Festival in the “New Proposals” category. In the 2022/23 season he released his first album L’ultimo fiore produced by Adom and distributed by Sony Music Italia / Epic records; at the same time, he played the protagonist “Boy” in Once-Una volta nella vita with Compagnia della Rancia directed by Mauro Simone.

Antonio Orler studied at the ArtVoice Academy in Venice and the MDM Academy in Milan. He attended musical theatre masterclasses with Perrin Manzer Allen, Stephanie Tschoeppe, Paul Glaser and Cheryl Porter. He took singing lessons with Michel Cerroni and Erika Peder and opera singing lessons with Sherman Lowe. His theatre credits include Casanova Opera Pop (Italian tour), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Milan), Rocky (Hamburg and Stuttgart); First Date (Italian tour), Red Riding Hood (Italian tour), L’Acqua Cheta (Italian Tour); Titanic (Italian tour); Sister Act (Milan); Giulietta e Romeo (Italian Tour). Television credits include The Gallery (Sold Out, SKY TV, 2 seasons); CaMe-RiNo (Tauron Entertainment). He has recorded Giulietta e Romeo and took part in the workshops of Giulietta e Romeo and Titanic, the Musical. Antonio Orler was one of 68 artists selected across Italy for the Sanremo Giovani 2018 song contest with the song “Qualcosa di unico”. He is an active singer with the Orchestra Ritmico Sinfonica Italiana directed by Diego Basso and teaches musical theatre at the Torino Musical Academy.

Chiara Vergassola was born in La Spezia, Italy. She began vocal and dance training at the ”Royal Ballet Academy”, participating in professional productions at the Teatro Civico di La Spezia (Pinocchio, Metropolis). She continued her studies in Musical Theatre, attending internships with national and international professionals such as Mary Setrakian at the Susan Batson Studio in New York. She had roles in television and film (Dalia de las Hadas, La direzione del tempo), and was then admitted to the SDM Academy (La scuola del musical di Milano), where she graduated in 2021 with the show La famiglia Addams as Morticia Addams, directed by Claudio Insegno. In 2022, she starred as Justina in Vlad Dracula.

Marianna debuted at the age of 18 with the Compagnia Teatro dei Sogni, in Excalibur, the Sword in the Rock in the role of Geneva. The following year she played Danielle (Cinderella) in The True Legend of Cinderella with the Chi Chi Company. She frequently collaborated with the BIT Company of Turin (Sybille in The Frog Prince, All That Musical, A Christmas Carol). She joined the 10toBroadway (production Palco5) and the Eclipse concerts as a singer, joining the vocal group ’The Barry’s, under the direction of Angelo Fernando Galeano. In recent years, after graduating from AMTA London (now ICTM), she played Pilar in the London production of Legally Blonde at Stockwell Playhouse. She was also Dance Captain in this production as well as in Christmas Carol. Back in Italy she collaborated with the director Stefano Genovese in the productions: Moulin Rouge (Satine), The Wiz (Addaperle) and Hercules (Terpsichore). In 2022 she made her screen debut appearing in La Bella Estate and My Brilliant Friend. In 2022 and 2023 she played the singer in the show Swing, Love and Fantasy (Company Umberto Scida, Stage 5), She collaborated with the trio ’Bluedolls’ in shows with the orchestra ’Walt Disney, Magic and Music’ and played Jerusha Abbot in the first Italian version of Daddy Long Legs.

Martina Cenere was born in Naples in 1991 and began studying modern singing and music theory at a very young age. Since 2009 she has performed as soloist for live music events and shows. Over the years she has nurtured a strong passion for musical theatre, and in 2012 she continued her artistic training at the SDM – La Scuola del Musical – in Milan. She graduated in 2014 in the leading role of Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde musical. The same year she began working as a performer for the director Federico Bellone in Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and in Newsies in 2015. From 2016 to 2018 she starred in the Italian production of West Side Story in the role of Rosalia. In 2017 she was chorister and performer in the theatrical tour The Compass and the Heart by Amedeo Minghi. From 2018 to 2020 she was artist and performer for the theatre productions of “Workinmusical” including Murder Ballad – Omicidio in Rock (tour 2019/2020). In 2020 she took part in the 63rd Spoletos’ Festival dei Due Mondi in the role of La Musica in the opera L’Orfeo, favola in musica by Claudio Monteverdi and Alessandro Striggio, under the musical direction of Ottavio Dantone and the stage direction of Pier Luigi Pizzi. During the 2021 season and later on tour, she was actress and performer in the cast of the musical Pretty Woman produced by Stage entertainment Italia. In 2020, she began her opera singing studies at the Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory in Avellino.

Robert Ediogu made his debut in the musical theatre world in the original Italian cast of Madagascar, then Hairspray, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the original Italian cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the original Italian cast of Everybody’s Talking about Jamie. In addition to his theatrical career, he also works for various TV Shows as an actor and dancer for National RAI and MEDIASET networks.

Stefania Fratepietro is a singer, actress, dancer, producer and teacher. She has trained in Italy and abroad and has more than 40 shows under her belt. She has performed the leading roles in the most important musical and theatre productions: Beatrice in La Divina Commedia, Tosca in Tosca, Mercedes in Il Conte di Montecristo, Mimì in Rent, Ermengarda in Hello Dolly, Penelope in Odysseus, Serena in Fame, Jannyanydots in Cats, Carlotta in The Mission, Svetlana in Chess, Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Francesca in Paolo and Francesca, Grease, La piccola bottega degli orrori, Gastone, Promesse Promesse and many others. She has worked with directors, actors, composers and important productions such as Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, Marco Frisina, Gino Landi, Dino Scuderi, Enrico Lamanna, Johnny Dorelli, Loretta Goggi, Marco Simeoli, Lorella Cuccarini, Giampiero Ingrassia, Renato Greco, Saverio Marconi, Fabrizio Angelini, Stefano Genovese, Gianluca Guidi, Massimo Venturiello, Giovanni Maria Lori, Davide Garattini, Tosca. She has performed with several prestigious opera houses including La Fenice in Venice, the Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan, the Cairo Opera House, also in Alexandria in Egypt, Seoul, Harbin in China, Monte Carlo. Producer and performer of three award-winning shows Hello Love Hello, Tenco and Dalida Between Music and Love, Ti amo sei perfetto ora cambia and Tomorrow Morning. Winner of two Best Actress Awards, she is also vocal coach at the new Marvel Cartoon Network Park in Dubai (IMG), the Premium Projects in Doha in Qatar and at several academies in Italy.

Arianna Galetti is an Italian musical performer based in London. She is known for playing the lead role of Scaramouche in the European tour of We Will Rock You alongside world famous popstar Anastacia. Her credits also include playing Annette u/s Stephanie Mangano in Saturday Night Fever, Mimì in Rent, ensemble u/s Morticia in The Addams Family, Sara Conte Tacchia. She is currently playing Goddess 3 in “Rock Goddess”, UK’s leading female rock group and is incredibly excited to join the Phantom family!

Jessica Lorusso is a musical performer and a songwriter. She was born in Milan and started playing the piano at age 7. Immediately after she began to sing. She studied vocal technique at CPM Music Institute in Milan and graduated in foreign languages from the Catholic University of the Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 2014 she graduated in musical theatre from the Scuola del Musical (SDM) in Milan. In 2015 she made her debut with the musical Sister Act directed by Saverio Marconi. She was back-up singer for Eros Ramazzotti during the world tour “Perfetto” in 2016/2017. After Stage Entertainments’ “Life is Musical”, she competed in the talent show “The Voice” in Italy (2019). During the 2019/2020 theatre season she played the role of Fox in the musical Pinocchio Reloaded directed by Maurizio Colombi. Starting in 2022, she has played Girl in Once – Una volta nella vita, directed by Mauro Simone (Compagnia della Rancia). With five singles released by Ada Warner Music Italy, she is currently working on her first EP.

Born in Trieste, Margherita Toso started practising ballet from a young age. She later discovered her passion for singing and acting. At the young age of 18, she ranked third at the musical competition “DanzaInFiera” in Florence, from which she also earned a scholarship. She completed her studies at the “Bernstein School of Musical Theatre”, graduating with honours in 2017. She debuted in Lerner and Loewe’s Gigì in the title role, touring across Italy. She then joined the cast of Mary Poppins, directed by Federico Bellone and the following year she played Judy Turner in the musical A Chorus Line, directed by Chiara Noschese, both at Teatro Nazionale in Milan. At Teatro Sistina in Rome she returned to the show Mary Poppins taking on multiple roles as ensemble, understudy, and eventually playing the leading role. Margherita Toso began her experience abroad in Austria in 2021, in the production of West Side Story. She also starred as Francisca at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch, a large open arena on the Neusiedler Lake which hosts up to 6000 bystanders. In 2022, she embarked on a German cruise ship, marking her debut as a solo singer. Following this, she performed at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in the original opera written by Academy Award winner Nicola Piovani Amorosa Presenza, and in Macbeth directed by Henning Brockhaus. She is thrilled to join this new production of The Phantom of the Opera and to debut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.