Jolanta Omilian is a graduate of Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She won 1st Prize in International Vocal Competition in Belgrad in 1975. After moving to Italy she perfected her vocal technique in Milan with Prof. Rodolfo Celletti, mainly on Italian belcanto repertoire.
She sang next in the most important Italian theatres and festivals (La Scala, Opera di Roma, Arena di Verona, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in Torino, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Comunale in Genua, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona) and many international stages in Austria and Germany (Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich), Spain and Portugal (Liceu in Barcelona, Las Palmas Opera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Bilbao, Santander, Lisboa); France (opera houses in Limoges, Rouen, Montpellier and Marseille); Swiss (Basel, Zurich, St. Gallen), Japan, Korea (Opera Tokyo, Daegu Opera House); United States (Opera Houston, Opera Dallas, Opera Palm Beach, Art Center Philadelphia), South America (Opera Rio de Janeiro, Opera di Santo Domingo) and many others. .
She took a part in opera music festivals: Festival Arena di Verona, Sferisterio Macerata, Martina Franca, Benevento, Malalatestiana Fano, RAI Roma, Paris Musique, Festival Budapest, Schwetzingen Festival, Menotti Festival dei Due Mondi: Spoleto-Charleston, Festival Internazionale Musica Sacra Virgo Lauretana.
June Anderson is a Grammy Award-winning American coloratura soprano. She is known for bel canto performances of Rossini, Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini.
Juan Diego Flórez is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Sun of Peru.
Daniela Dessì was an Italian operatic soprano.
Roberto Abbado is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor. Currently he is Artistic Partner of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In 2015 he has been appointed music director of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain. From 2018 he's Music Director of the Festival Verdi in Parma. Previously he held the position of Chief Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester.
Mariella Devia is an Italian operatic soprano. After beginning her career as a lyric coloratura soprano, in the finale part of it she also enjoyed considerable success with some of the most dramatic roles in the bel canto repertoire.
Dano Raffanti is an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian baroque and bel canto repertory.
Marietta Sacchi was an Italian operatic soprano who had an active career during the 1820s and 1830s.
Maria Dragoni is an Italian operatic soprano active international career in major opera house from 1984 to present.
Frank Lopardo is an American operatic tenor who was born in Brentwood, New York. Early in his career he specialized in the repertoire of Mozart and Rossini and later transitioned to the works of Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Bellini.
Maxim Vyacheslavovich Mironov, is a Russian tenor, best known for his interpretation of the bel canto repertoire. In 2001, he joined the Helikon Opera Theatre in Moscow, where he made his operatic debut in André Grétry's opera Pierre le Grand. Mironov won the 2nd Prize at the Neue Stimmen international singing competition in Germany in 2003. In Europe Mironov has performed in many opera houses.
Nino Machaidze is a Georgian operatic soprano. She performs in 19th-century Romantic repertoire, primarily in operas by Rossini and Verdi as well as French operas. Beginning her career at La Scala, she gained international attention after being cast as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the 2008 Salzburg Festival, after which she earned the nickname "Angelina Jolie of Opera" from the Austrian press.
Antonino Fogliani is an Italian conductor.
Jessica Pratt is an English-born Australian operatic soprano. She studied further in Europe: at the Rome Opera, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and in Milan. Pratt is most recognised for her portrayal of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, which she has performed over 100 times worldwide.
Ștefan Pop is a Romanian operatic tenor. He is considered among today's leading lyric tenors and he is best known for bel canto repertoire. He has won several prizes including, in 2010, Plácido Domingo's Operalia competition and the Seoul International Music Competition.
Malvina Pereira was a Brazilian soprano. She is thought to be the first opera singer from Brazil to have had an international career.
Ayres Borghi-Zerni was an Italian operatic soprano who had a distinguished international career from 1914 till 1928.
Michele Mariotti, born in 1979 in Urbino, near Pesaro, is an Italian conductor, the direttore musicale since 2014 of Teatro Comunale di Bologna. A graduate in composition of Pesaro's Conservatorio Rossini, where he also studied orchestral conducting, he made his professional opera debut with Il barbiere di Siviglia in Salerno on Oct. 12, 2005. As of April 2017, his repertory included nine Rossini and eight Verdi operas, an extraordinary achievement, as well as symphonies of Beethoven, Bruckner and Schubert, the Rossini Stabat mater, the Mozart Requiem and the Verdi Requiem.
Michele Pertusi is an Italian opera singer (bass) born in Parma on January 12, 1965.
Mario Cassi is an Italian baritone.
Silvia Tro Santafé is a Spanish lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano. In her early career she was best known for her interpretations of Handel and became notable for her performances of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and in recent years Verdi.
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