Ausgewählte Lieder von Otar Taktakischwili, Peter I. Tschaikowski, Sergej Rachmaninow, Franceco Paolo Tosti, Manuel De Falla
Team
Anita Rachvelishvili
Mezzosopran
Anita Rachvelishvili comes from Tbilisi, where she studied singing at the State Conservatory and became a member of the opera ensemble. The mezzo-soprano's international career began in 2009 with her sensational success as Carmen at the season opening of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, alongside Jonas Kaufmann as Don José. She has since embodied that role at other leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Semperoper Dresden and in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Toronto, Rome, Turin and Verona. Other roles with which she has delighted audiences include Amneris (Aida), Dalila (Samson et Dalila), Eboli (Don Carlo), Azucena (Il trovatore) and Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana). Concert appearances have taken her to Carnegie Hall in New York, among other venues.
Vincenzo Scalera
Klavier
Vincenzo Scalera was born as a child of Italian-American parents in New Jersey, USA, and began playing piano at the age of five. He completed his training at the Manhattan School of Music. As a musical assistant, he worked at the New Jersey Opera. In Italy, he continued his studies and was engaged in 1980 as a répétiteur and pianist at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he assisted conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Carlos Kleiber. Guest engagements took him to important festivals, including Edinburgh, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Orange, Salzburg and Pesaro. He accompanied numerous leading lieder interpreters, including Carlo Bergonzi, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Leyla Gencer, Vittorio Grigolo, Sumi Jo, Katia Ricciarelli, Renata Scotto, Cesare Siepi and Lucia Valentini Terrani. He has a long-standing artistic partnership with Juan Diego Flórez.