Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Italian conductor Gianluca Capuano has been Principal Conductor of Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco since 2019. The ensemble was founded by Cecilia Bartoli, with whom he enjoys a close artistic collaboration. He studied organ, composition and conducting at the Milan Conservatory, and pursued early music studies at the Scuola Civica in the same city. Holding a degree in theoretical philosophy from the University of Milan, he also engages in research on musical aesthetics. In 2006, he founded Il Canto di Orfeo, a vocal ensemble with which he has performed La morte d’Abel at the Salzburg Festival, La clemenza di Tito on tour and at the 2023 Whitsun Festival. Since their Norma in 2016, he has regularly conducted Cecilia Bartoli and Les Musiciens du Prince in Salzburg, Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam, Luxembourg and Paris. Among his notable engagements are: Catone in Utica, Il matrimonio segreto, and Gli uccellatori in Cologne; Guillaume Tell in Orange; Iphigénie en Tauride and Orlando paladino in Zurich; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Palermo and Vienna; Idomeneo at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi in Lucerne ; and La cenerentola at La Scala in Milan . He conducted the first two albums in the “Mentored by Bartoli” collection for Decca. In 2022, he was awarded the Premio Abbiati for Conductor of the Year. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, he has conducted La Cenerentola, Il turco in Italia, Giulio Cesare, Ariodante, Ein deutsches Requiem, Their Master’s Voice, La donna del lago, Alcina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La clemenza di Tito, Das Rheingold, Vespro della Beata Vergine and Die Walküre.

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.

Italian choir conductor Luca Scaccabarozzi pursued advanced piano studies in Florence, winning prizes in piano competitions as both a soloist and chamber musician. Trained in choral conducting in Milan and Arezzo, he completed a second-level diploma in choral conducting and composition at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto and also holds a degree in philosophy. He won first prize at the Romano Gandolfi International Choir Conductors Competition (Parma, 2021) and has since been awarded Best Conductor in several national choral competitions, as well as first prizes in national and international competitions with ensembles such as the Ensemble vocale Mousiké and the Torino Vocalensemble.He collaborates as choir master with Ensemble LaBarocca (Milan) and has worked with the Choir of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano and Ars Cantica, performing at major festivals such as MITO SettembreMusica, the Stresa Festival and the Monreale Festival of Ancient Music. Founder and conductor of the Zephyrus Consort, he also leads the Regina del Rosario Choir (Arcore) and the Le Dissonanze Choir (Monza), and appears regularly as a guest conductor with choirs and orchestras throughout Italy, including the Romanian National Choir “Madrigal” in Bucharest. Alongside his conducting activity, he is active as a singer and has performed with leading ensembles in major European theatres and at the Salzburg Festival with Cecilia Bartoli. He currently teaches choral practice and conducting at the “A. Vivaldi” Conservatory in Alessandria and gives masterclasses in Italy and abroad.

Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli made his stage debut in 2012 in Dido and Aeneas. Since then, Carlo Vistoli has performed on major international stages, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Staatsoper Berlin, and La Scala di Milano, working under the direction of leading conductors and directors such as Gianluca Capuano, Giovanni Antonini, Emmanuelle Haïm, Davide Livermore, and Robert Carsen. Giants like Händel and Vivaldi occupy a central place in his repertoire. For Händel, he notably sings the title role in Giulio Cesare in Egitto (with Cecilia Bartoli in Monaco and Vienna), Ruggiero in Alcina (Florence then Rome, with Cecilia Bartoli), Arsace in Partenope (San Francisco), as well as major oratorios such as Messiah (Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris) and Il Trionfo del Tempo (Moscow and Paris). In Vivaldi, he performs Orlando furioso, both in the title role (Paris) and as Ruggiero (Venice). His repertoire also includes 17th-century Italian works, with Angelo Custode in La Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo by Cavalieri (Vienna) and Alidoro in L’Orontea by Cesti (Milan). Carlo Vistoli has developed a special connection with the role of Orfeo by Gluck, which he has performed in two major productions (Damiano Michieletto in Berlin and Robert Carsen in Rome and Valencia). During the 2025/26 season, Carlo Vistoli will perform Il Trionfo del Tempo by Händel with Thibault Noally and Les Accents at the Opéra du Rhin, and with Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico at Bozar; Alcina under the direction of Philippe Jaroussky (Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona); a tour of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée; Tamerlano by Vivaldi (title role, concert version) with Les Accents in Paris; a revival of Giulio Cesare with Cecilia Bartoli at the Opernhaus Zürich; and Tancredi by Rossini in the title role in Rome. Carlo Vistoli has recorded for several labels, including Harmonia Mundi, Brilliant Classics, Tactus, Arcana, La Musica, and Bongiovanni. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, he notably performed in Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto alongside Cecilia Bartoli during the 2023/24 season. 

Born in Saint-Raphaël, French soprano Mélissa Petit studied voice in her hometown and in Nice before joining the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg Staatsoper. After five seasons with the company, she joined Zurich Opera in 2015, where she sang roles including Sophie (Werther), Marzelline (Fidelio), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Frasquita (Carmen), and Créuse in Charpentier’s Médée. Since 2017, she has pursued a freelance career, acclaimed for roles such as Gilda (Rigoletto), Micaëla (Carmen), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Ilia (Idomeneo), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier). She has appeared in Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, Düsseldorf, Beijing, Bregenz, Limoges, and Paris. A regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, she has performed Bellezza, Servilia, and Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) and has taken part in several gala concerts alongside Cecilia Bartoli. She works frequently with baroque ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Il Pomo d’Oro, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Accents, and Pygmalion, and also explores concert repertoire. In 2023, she sang the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen, Mozart’s Mass in C minor in Salzburg, and recorded a solo album dedicated to Pauline Viardot. She made her debut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 2024/2025 in Das Rheingold (Freia, Woglinde) and returns this season as Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice.

New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she studied with Yvonne Kenny. A recipient of numerous awards, she has been a Britten-Pears Young Artist and won the Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award in 2025. She made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as First Siren (Rinaldo), followed by appearances at the Salzburg and Whitsun Festivals as Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice) alongside Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano. She also performed Amore in Bordeaux under Raphaël Pichon, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at the 2025 Aix-en-Provence Festival, as well as Galatea (Polifemo) and Maria (West Side Story) at the Opéra du Rhin. She has sung Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) at Glyndebourne and Dido (Dido and Aeneas) in Bath. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, she made her debut in 2023 as the Voce dal cielo (Don Carlo). She opens the 2025/2026 season with woman.life.song in Birmingham, then performs Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and makes her debut with Pinchgut Opera in Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio. She is supported by both the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major Foundations.