Donizetti L’elisir d'amore

Since 2019, Gianluca Capuano has been musical director of Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco. In Milan, his hometown, he graduated in organ, composition and conducting at the Conservatory, studied early music performance at the Scuola Civica and graduated with honours in theoretical philosophy at the Università Statale. He dedicates himself to research in the field of musical aesthetics. He is artistic director of the festival “Musica negli horti” in Val d’Orcia. He has been active as conductor, organist and continuist in Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan. In 2006 he founded “Il Canto di Orfeo”, an ensemble dedicated to European Baroque masterpieces, which he conducted for, among others, the Milano Arte Musica Festival (2017) and La morte d’Abel at the Salzburg Festival. In 2016, he conducted Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at the Edinburgh Festival, in Paris and Baden Baden. Since then, many collaborations with Cecilia Bartoli and Les Musiciens du Prince: La Cenerentola in Monte Carlo, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Versailles, Luxembourg; Il turco in Italia, Giulio Cesare, A German Requiem and Their Master’s Voice in Monte Carlo; Ariodante, La donna del lago, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Alcina and a series of concerts at the Salzburg Festival; La clemenza di Tito in Lucerne; La Cenerentola, Il turco in Italia and a Gala Concert in Vienna; L’italiana in Algeri in Zurich; a series of concerts in the most important squares in Europe. Other engagements, are worth mentioning: Catone in Utica, Gli uccellatori, Il matrimonio segreto, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Cologne; Idomeneo and Alcina at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; Pigmalione/Che originali! at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo; Le metamorfosi di Pasquale at La Fenice in Venice; La finta giardiniera in Winterthur, Zurich and Amsterdam; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine in Cremona; L’elisir d’amore and the Weinachtsoratorium in Hamburg; Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Guillaume Tell at the Chorégies d’Orange; Il matrimonio segreto in Amsterdam; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem in Bari; Orlando Paladino, La Cenerentola, Iphigénie en Tauride in Zurich; Il maestro di cappella and Il segreto di Susanna in Genoa; Ariodante and Le nozze di Figaro in Moscow; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Lucerne; Il turco in Italia in Munich; L’elisir d’amore in Vienna. He also collaborates with I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Philarmonisches Orchester Kiel and Concerto Köln.

After graduating in scenography at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, Adriano Sinivia moved to Paris to study at the Annie Fratellini Circus Academy and the École internationale de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau. His creations of Mezz’ora di luna and Una delle ultime sere di carnovale for the Venice Biennale launched his career as performer and creator. The Opéra de Paris gave him his first opportunity as set designer for opera with César Franck’s Stradella at the Opéra-Comique. This was followed by Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Falstaff, Carmen, The Cunning Little Vixen, Les Saltimbanques, The White Horse Inn, La cambiale di matrimonio, Il signor Bruschino, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, La Cenerentola, Die Fledermaus, and many others, at numerous opera houses such as Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg), the Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse), Opéra royal de Wallonie (Liège), the Operas of Bordeaux, Montpellier, Saint-Étienne, Nantes... More recently he directed L’elisir d’amore at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, the Chorégies d’Orange and Lausanne Opera. He has choreographed the opera films Macbeth by Claude d’Anna and La bohème by Luigi Comencini. He also designs sets for the theatre and leads workshops at academies such as the TNS in Strasbourg, the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Lyon, the Haute École in Geneva as well as Stage Entertainment France. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, he directed L’elisir d’amore in 2014 and Il Barbiere di Siviglia in 2017.

Cristian Taraborrelli is a stage director, creative director, set and costume designer. His multiform and innovative artistic skills are deployed in all aspects of his work, ranging from experimental theatre to opera, from creating concepts to staging multimedia events, from video mapping to interactive formats. Born in Rome in 1970 he began working there in the early 1990s on various theatre projects, in particular with Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (a main representative of experimental theatre in Italy). His prolific activities have led him to work with major figures of the international artistic world and European cultural centres. He has worked at the Teatro Nacional São João in Porto, at the Théâtre de l’Odéon and the Châtelet in Paris, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, at the Biennale and the PalaFenice in Venice, at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, La Scala in Milan, at theatres in Parma, Bari, Messine, Genoa, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Malmö, at the Festival Rossini in Pesaro, the Festival d’Avignon, as well as at the Chorégies d’Orange (L’elisir d’amore in 2022). During his experience in opera he gradually began to combine the visual arts with cutting-edge stage design technologies. In 2021, for his staging of Pagliacci at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in collaboration with RAI Culture, he created for the first time on the opera scene an augmented reality experience.

The Italian decorator and costume designer Enzo Iorio was born in Genoa and studied architecture at Naples University. A passionate music-lover, he took part in various research groups before launching into the theatre world in France and Italy. As a video creator he works for advertising, as well as producing documentaries on architecture and the theatre as well as dance creations. At the same time he continues his research on graphic art and designs sets and costumes for plays, modern circus and opera productions, alongside many artists and stage directors. His multiple collaborations have inspired a multifaceted creativity that has led to often surprising projects, at the intersection of different artistic forms. His achievements include the reprise of L’elisir d’amore (a Lausanne Opera production) at the Opéra national de Bordeaux in 2022, Madama Butterfly at the Nagoya Festival (Japan) in 2019, Die Fledermaus at Lausanne Opera in 2018, The Barber of Seville in 2018 and L’elisir d’amore in 2022 at the Chorégies d’Orange. Multitalented and versatile, Enzo Iorio, has also designed exhibition spaces, as well as acting as decorator on photo shoots for brands such as Vogue or Lancel and collaborator for television and cinema (Jan Kounen’s series The Show, Noémie Lvovsky’s Demain et tous les autres jours…).

With more than 250 productions to his credit Fabrice Kebour has become one of Europe’s leading lighting designer. After five years in New York gaining multiple experiences, he returned to Paris and designed his first European productions amongst which Hamlet directed by Terry Hands, as well as several productions offered to him by Gian Carlo Menotti at the Spoleto Festival. Over the past twenty years his work has been seen in the most prestigious international theatres: Comédie-Française and Opéra national in Paris, Vienna State Opera, Bregenz Festival, La Scala in Milan, Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Théâtre royal de la Monnaie in Brussels… He designed Giorgio Barberio Corsetti’s productions Un chapeau de paille d’Italie for the Comédie-Française, Macbeth and Turandot for La Scala, as well as Don Carlo at the Mariinsky. Since 2007 he has been designing most of Sir David Pountney’s productions. He also collaborated with director Claus Guth: La bohème and Bérénice, a world premiere by Michael Jarrell at Opéra national de Paris, and in 2022 Il viaggio, Dante, a world premiere by Pascal Dusapin, at Aix-en-Provence Festival. With Christof Loy he collaborated for Puccini’s Triptych at the Salzburg Festival, La rondine at Opernhaus Zurich (2023), La Voix humaine/Erwartung at Teatro Real in Madrid (2024) and La fiamma at Deutsche Oper in Berlin (2024). He enjoys venturing beyond his main fields that are theatre and opera, and always welcomes new challenges. In 2006 he designed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Asian Games in Doha.

Born in Livorno (ltaly) in 1960, Stefano Visconti studied the piano and then choral conducting with Fosco Corti and Roberto Gabbiano, as well as orchestra conducting with Piero Bellugi and Giancarlo Andretta. He was appointed choirmaster at Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 2007. Before this he was choirmaster at the Teatro Goldoni, Livorno (1991-2001), Choirmaster at the Opéra-Théâtre d’Avignon (2001-2007), as well as Choirmaster at the Festival Puccini, Torre del Lago (1999-2015). From 1984 to 2001 he conducted the Guido Monaco Polyphonic Choir of Livorno which, under his direction, won several national awards (Vittorio Veneto, Arezzo and Florence competitions). In 2000 he founded the Chamber Choir of Tuscany, formed of professionals. He directed the reconstitution of the complete sacred works of Giuseppe Cambini for soloists, choir, and orchestra. Since 2008 he has conducted the choirs of the Sanxay Lyrical Evenings. He is the artistic and music director of the Monte Carlo Chamber Choir. He has made several recordings with Foné, Agora and Kikko Classics, in particular several of Mascagni’s operas (L’amico Fritz, I Rantzau, Lodoletta, Guglielmo Ratcliff, Silvano, Cavalleria rusticana, Iris and Sì). Since 2017 he has directed the coordination of the choirs for the Chorégies d’Orange festival.

Included in the Top Ten rising stars of opera by Opera Wire in 2022, Francesca Pia Vitale has won numerous international awards after graduating in 2020 from the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. During her years of specialization at La Scala, she has performed numerous concerts, taken masterclasses with Luciana D’Intino, Renato Bruson, Eva Mei, Leo Nucci, Ildar Abdrazakov, Nino Machaidze and Marcelo Álvarez, and enriched her studies under the guidance of Vincenzo Scalera, James Vaughan and Michele D’Elia. She made her debut at La Scala as Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore. She then sang there the diptych Prima la musica poi lei parole and Gianni Schicchi under the baton of Ádám Fischer and directed by Woody Allen, the Page in Rigoletto, Clorinda in La Cenerentola for Children, Annina in La traviata, Elisetta in Il matrimonio segreto. She made her debut at the Cagliari Opera House in Hänsel und Gretel, at the Arena di Verona in La traviata, in Padua as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and at the Royal Opera House in Muscat as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. In 2022 she embarked on a successful tour in France playing Lisa in a new production of La sonnambula in Clermont-Ferrand, Vichy, Avignon, Metz, and Reims. She returned to La Scala as Ciomma in Leonardo Vinci’s Le zite ‘ngalera, Sophie in Werther and Silandra in Orontea. She sang La bohème at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and at the Bordeaux Opera, I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and Don Pasquale at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Among her projects: Merope in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin and Vienna, Rigoletto in Hannover and Milan and Il re pastore in Rome.

From a child soloist at the Sistine Chapel (Rome), with the Schola Puerorum, to the world’s most prestigious opera houses, Vittorio Grigolo is today one of the most important tenors on the opera scene, with a career marked by unforgettable artistic encounters. At the age of 13 he performed as the Shepherd Boy in Tosca at the Rome Opera House alongside Luciano Pavarotti. Aged 23 he became the youngest tenor to inaugurate the season at La Scala in Milan. In 2010 he made his international debut portraying Rodolfo in La bohème, becoming a new star of the New York Metropolitan Opera. His career on the most prestigious stages has risen continuously. The past months have seen him perform Cavaradossi in Tosca on tour with the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, as well as at the Vienna State Opera and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Canio in Pagliacci and Don José in Carmen at the Staatsoper of Hamburg, Manrico in Il trovatore at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Rodolfo in La bohème at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Vienna State Opera, Tosca and Il trovatore at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Les Contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala, La traviata and Tosca at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival, Des Grieux in Manon at the Vienna State Opera. He has given numerous recitals and concerts, including the Concert de Paris under the Eiffel Tower before 800,000 spectators. He performed as Alfredo (La traviata) at Zurich Central Station and Nemorino at Malpensa Airport (Milan). On-screen appearances include the RAI live broadcast, as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, directed by Marco Bellocchio, alongside Plácido Domingo and Ruggero Raimondi. His career story is one of talent, passion, and dedication.

Born in Benevento, the Italian baritone Davide Luciano studied with Gioacchino Zarrelli with whom he still continues to work today. He has performed at prestigious venues internationally, including New York Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and at renowned festivals such as the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and the Salzburg Festival. His engagements of the past season include Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le nozze di Figaro and Manon Lescaut at Vienna State Opera, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at Metropolitan Opera, Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de perles at Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the title role in Don Giovanni at Deutsche Oper in Berlin. Recent engagements also include Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at La Scala, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. He made his Met debut as Belcore and returned there for La bohème. He debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Don Giovanni, conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Davide was a member of the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro. He has regularly appeared at Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where his roles have included Don Giovanni, Rossini’s Figaro, Marcello, Belcore, Cecil (Maria Stuarda), Don Profondo (Il viaggio a Reims) and Nottingham (concert performances of Roberto Devereux). During the 2024/25 season he performs in Don Pasquale and L’elisir d’amore in Vienna, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Met, Le nozze di Figaro in Liège and Munich.

Winner of the 2016 Abbiati Prize, Italian bass-baritone Nicola Alaimo is one of the most appreciated and versatile performers on the international music scene today. He is a regular guest of such prestigious venues as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Arena di Verona, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Salzburg Festival, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Monte Carlo Opera, Paris Opera, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opernhaus Zürich and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Very successful was his performance in title role of Guillaume Tell, which he portrayed in Paris, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Munich, Brussels and at Chorégies d’Orange. Recent highlights include a tour with La Cenerentola, Il turco in Italia and a Rossini Gala alongside Cecilia Bartoli and conducted by Gianluca Capuano, a triumphant Falstaff with John Eliot Gardiner in Firenze and with Myung Whun Chung in Venice, his iconic Melitone in La forza del destino in Paris, an acclaimed Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) in Salzburg, Falstaff in Tokyo, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena di Verona, Roberto Devereux in Geneva, Adriana Lecouvreur in Madrid, Madama Butterfly in Florence, La traviata in Venice and the title role of Gianni Schicchi in Monte Carlo. His plans include Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Metropolitan Opera, Guillaume Tell in Liège and Adriana Lecouvreur in Toulouse.

Aitana Sanz combined piano and singing studies in her hometown Valencia, Spain and obtained her Master’s Vocal Performance Degree with Honours in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst under the tutelage of the baritone Florian Bösch and the soprano Krassimira Stoyanova, with whom she continues to study. She has also studied with the soprano Isabel Rey since the beginning of her training. In 2019 she made her debut at Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) as the Voice from Heaven (Don Carlo). She returned there in 2022 and debuted in the role of Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), replacing Jessica Pratt’s cancellation due to illness. That same year came her Italian debut as Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims) with the Accademia Rossiniana at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and her debut in the United States, as Oscar (Un ballo in maschera) in Maryland. In 2023 she made her Salzburg Festival debut as a Young Singers Project member with Le Feu and Le Rossignol (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges), and also at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence as Frasquita (Carmen) and as Pamina (The Magic Flute – reduction for schoolchildren). In 2024 she sings Solveig in a concert version of Peer Gynt. Future engagements include Elisetta (Il matrimonio segreto) at the Pérez Galdós Theater. Her awards include first prize in the International Giulio Neri Competition, second prize in Concorso Città di Pienza, third prize in the Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition.