Wagner The Flying Dutchman

Acclaimed by The Sunday Times for his “consistently theatrical and idiomatic conducting,” Gianluca Marcianò enjoys an international reputation, the result of roles as varied as principal conductor of the Orchestra della Magna Grecia in southern Italy, principal guest conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the Al Bustan Festival in Lebanon. These experiences transcend borders, enriched by his involvement in the Opera for Peace organization and a degree in political science at the University of Pisa. As a guest conductor, has appeared at prestigious venues such  as the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Shanghai Arts Festival, and the English National Opera. In opera productions and symphonic concerts, he has collaborated with artists such as Sir Bryn Terfel, Elina Garanča, Sumi Jo, Joseph Calleja, and Gautier Capuçon, and conducted orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Filarmonica Toscanini. Being a specialist in grand opera, Gianluca Marcianò's repertoire includes some of iconic Italian works: Aida, Tosca, La Forza del destino, Turandot, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto. This season, he will conduct The Barber of Seville at Grange Park Opera, and will make his debut at Monte-Carlo.

D-wok is a creative studio specialized in performance design, innovative stage formats, event production, and advanced video design systems. For over a decade, its creative director, Paolo Gep Cucco, has worked in close collaboration with stage director Davide Livermore, contributing to a significant evolution in operatic aesthetics. Together, they have designed four season-opening productions at La Scala in Milan, as well as numerous stagings at leading opera houses around the world, including the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Opera House in Muscat (Sultanate of Oman), and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, where D-wok designed the video for Giulio Cesare and Das Rheingold (2024/2025). Their work spans major events, live performance, opera, concerts, museum exhibitions, and television, with a distinctive approach in which performance, technology, and projection media become emotionally charged with narrative elements. Among their most acclaimed projects are the full digital set designs for the 2021 season of the Arena di Verona. D-wok has also developed a bespoke augmented reality system built on the Unreal Engine—the only cinema-grade software of its kind in Italy—which was notably used by RAI for the world premiere of A riveder le stelle, the opening production of La Scala in December 2020.

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.

As a major figure in the Wagnerian repertoire, Albert Dohmen has established himself as one of the most outstanding interpreters of his generation, particularly in roles such as Wotan, Hagen, King Marke, and Daland. Acclaimed as one of the finest Wotans of his generation, he has performed the role in numerous complete Ring Cycles in Bayreuth, New York, Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, Trieste, and Vienna. He regularly appears on the world’s most prestigious stages – the Paris Opera, Covent Garden, the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, and the opera houses of Zurich, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and New York – under the baton of conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev, and James Levine. In 2021, he sang the role of the Doctor in Wozzeck at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. This season, he returns as Daland, a role he has recently performed in Trieste, Luxembourg, and Brussels. His discography includes A Florentine Tragedy by Zemlinsky with Riccardo Chailly, as well as Fidelio, Die Frau ohne Schatten, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg conducted by Sir Georg Solti.

After a dazzling start to her career, Asmik Grigorian quickly established herself as “one of the fiercest dramatic talents on the opera scene” (The New York Times). The Lithuanian soprano regularly performs on the world’s greatest stages: the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the Salzburg Festival and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In addition to this list of prestigious venues, she has won numerous awards, including “Best Female Role” at the Austrian Music Theater Awards (2019) and “Female Performer of the Year” at the Opus Klassik Awards (2023). Building on her internationally acclaimed career, Asmik Grigorian has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, Franz Welser-Möst or Yves Abel and leading directors including Dmitri Tcherniakov, Romeo Castellucci or Robert Wilson.This season Asmik Grigorian will perform Desdemona in Otello at the Teatro Real Madrid, Salome at the Hamburgische Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper, an American tour of the Verdi Requiem with Maestro Welser Most, Madama Butterfly at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the MET. She will also continue to perform her theatrical concert Una diva is born, which features songs by the Beatles, Sting, Lady Gaga and her most well- known arias. If this production of Der fliegende Holländer marks her debut in Monte-Carlo, she is no stranger to the role of Senta, having first sung it at the legendary Bayreuth Festival in 2021.

German tenor and composer Daniel Behle was named Singer of the Year in 2020 for his MoZart recording released by Opus Klassik. Equally acclaimed in concert, lieder and opera, he has emerged in recent years as one of the most exciting Wagnerian tenors of his generation. His repertoire ranges from baroque masterpieces to works of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2024, he performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in the Christmas Oratorio and received the German Record Critics’ Honour Award for his life’s work. Highlights of his 2025/2026 season include Mendelssohn’s Elias with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Daniele Gatti, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestre National de France in Paris, and Bruckner’s Te Deum in Rotterdam and Vienna with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He will also appear in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Stuttgart State Opera. In recent seasons, he has performed Lohengrin in Amsterdam and Stuttgart, La Clemenza di Tito at the Salzburg Festival, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) in Milan, Zurich and Vienna, as well as Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at Covent Garden, and at the Bayreuth Festival in Tannhäuser and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Alongside his singing career, Behle is also an accomplished composer. His first operetta, Hopfen und Malz, premiered in 2023 in several German theatres, and he is currently working on a second piece, Le Papillon.

Although Welsh, Angharad Lyddon began her professional career in London, at the English National Opera in 2015, after studying at the Royal Academy of Music. At the English National Opera, she performed a wide range of roles, from a daughter of Akhenaten (Philip Glass) to Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Benjamin Britten). In a career which has been mainly British, Angharad Lyddon has also performed on the renowed stage of the Glyndebourne Festival, notably in the role of Marcellina in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (2025). She has also gave a piano recital at the prestigious Wigmore Hall (2022). Her Wagnerian career has been marked by the roles such as Flosshilde (Götterdämmerung) at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, and Mary (Der Fliegende Holländer) for Holland Park Opera. In concert, Angharad Lyddon has performed under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner in Bach's Cantatas and in Mendelssohn's Elijah, alongside Sir Bryn Terfel. In 2025, Angharad Lyddon will make her debut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Der Fliegende Holländer (Mary). Another major highlight of her season will be the her return to her national opera company, the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, in Blaze of Glory (Branwen), where she made her debut in 2023.  

Trystan Llŷr Griffiths is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the National Opera Studio, and was a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera House. Since his debut, the Welsh tenor has maintained a close relationship with the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, where he has performed Mozart roles such as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte). He also played Tamino at the Opéra National du Rhin. Trystan has won numerous awards, including second prize in the Paris Opera Competition at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He was named “Voice of Wales” by Decca Records, selected from over 600 singers selected in a televised competition broadcast by S4C. In 2024, he became an honorary patron of LARS (Loud Applause Rising Stars), a unique non-profit organization that identifies, encourages, and supports talented young singers in South Wales. His debut in the role as the Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer in Monte Carlo, where he will perform for the first time, comes a few months after a major success on stage at The Grange Festival in the role of Alfred in Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II). This same season will also see another important debut, in the role of Spoletta in Tosca (Puccini) at La Monnaie in Brussels.

Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel made his stage debut in 1990 as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) with Welsh National Opera. Since then, he has pursued an exceptional international career, performing on the world’s most prestigious opera stages. Winner of the Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1989, he has distinguished himself in a wide repertoire, ranging from Mozart to Wagner. His most notable roles include Wotan in the Ring Cycle at Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera, Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Scarpia (Tosca), Méphistophélès (Faust), Balstrode (Peter Grimes), and the Dutchman, which he recently performed at the Vienna State Opera and ABAO Bilbao. During the 2024/25 season, he appeared in Tosca in Zurich, as well as in Boris Godunov and Peter Grimes at Covent Garden. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, he has performed several recitals, sung the roles of Falstaff (2010) and Scarpia (2015), and returns this season as the Dutchman. He has received numerous honours, including the title of Austrian Kammersänger, the Queen’s Medal for Music, and was knighted in 2017 for his services to music.