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FERRUCCIO
FURLANETTO
(
Don Quichotte
)
Previously at Lyric:
Fiesco/
Simon Boccanegra
(2012-13); title role/
Boris
Godunov
(2011-12).
The Italian bass, regarded internationally for
more than four decades as one of the world’s
most celebrated artists, has enjoyednumerous
triumphs as Don Quichotte, which he
considers his favorite role. His portrayal
has been hailed at Toronto’s Canadian
Opera Company, San Diego Opera, St.
Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre (CD),
Madrid’s Teatro Real, and Palermo’s Teatro
Massimo. Major projects this season include
reprises of his incomparable portrayals of
Verdi’s Phillip II (Vienna, Milan, Tokyo),
Rossini’s Don Basilio (Covent Garden),
and Shostakovich’s Boris Timofeyevitch
(Salzburg).
Recent successes include Fiesco
(Met, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg),
Prince Gremin (London, Vienna), and
Banquo (Vienna). Furlanetto, who initially
established himself internationally as one
of his generation’s foremost Mozartians,
today boasts a repertoire of roles as diverse as
Mustafà/
L’italiana in Algeri
(Vienna), Boris
Godunov (Lyric, Moscow, Vienna, Paris,
St. Petersburg), Thomas Becket/Pizzetti’s
Murder in the Cathedral
(Milan, San
Diego), and Émile de Becque/
South Pacific
(Vienna). His recitals include appearances
at San Diego Opera, La Scala, and the
Vienna State Opera. Highlights of the bass’s
vast discography include the Mozart/da
Ponte operas, Schubert’s
Winterreise
, all of
Furlanetto’s signature Verdi roles, Boito’s
Mefistofele
, and a solo album of Mussorgsky
and Rachmaninoff songs. Among the bass’s
many honors is the
Opera News
Award
(2015).
CLÉMENTINE
MARGAINE
(
Dulcinée
)
Lyric debut
Th e me z z o - s op r a no
is one of the most
acclaimed among the new
generation of French singers. Recognized
internationally as a remarkable interpreter of
Bizet’s Carmen, Margaine has starred in that
role in ten major houses, including those of
Berlin, Munich, Naples, Sydney, Toronto,
and Washington. Her many other successes
onstage in recent seasons have included Sara/
Roberto Devereux
(Bilbao), Dido/
Les Troyens
(Geneva), Charlotte/
Werther
(Buenos Aires),
and Siébel/
Faust
(Paris). Later this season she
will reprise her Carmen (Opéra National de
Paris, Dresden’s Semperoper, Metropolitan
Opera), and Sara (Bavarian State Opera).
The mezzo began her career with the
ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
where she returns regularly in leading roles,
among them Berlioz’s Marguerite and Saint-
Saëns’s Dalila. Margaine has been heard on
the major stages of Rome and Budapest,
and has portrayed both Orfeo/
Orfeo ed
Euridice
and Phèdre/
Hippolyte et Aricie
at
the Festival International d’Opéra Baroque
de Beaune. Major concert appearances
include Donizetti’s
La favorite
(a triumph
at the 2015 Caramoor Festival), Phébé/
Rameau’s
Castor et Pollux
(Montpellier),
Verdi’s
Requiem
(Budapest), and Mahler’s
Kindertotenlieder
(Dijon, Chalon sur
Saône). The mezzo is a past recipient of
the Concours International de Marmande’s
Special Jury Prize.
NICOLA ALAIMO
(
Sancho
)
Lyric debut
Among the Italian
baritone’s recent successes
in bel canto opera have
been Taddeo/
L’Italiana
in Algeri
(Metropolitan Opera), Don
Geronio/
Il turco in Italia
(Pesaro’s Rossini
Opera Festival), and Neri/Giordano’s
La
cena delle Beffe
(La Scala). Highlights of
his upcoming season include title role/
Simon Boccanegra
(Luxembourg, Antwerp),
Germont/
La traviata
(London), Count di
Luna/
Il trovatore
and Francesco/
I masnadieri
(both in Monte Carlo), and title role/
Don
Pasquale
(Vienna). In addition to Alaimo’s
international acclaim in such comedic roles
as Falstaff (La Scala, Opéra de Marseille),
Bartolo (Opéra National de Paris, Rossini
Festival, Palermo’s Teatro Massimo), and
Dandini (Salzburg Festival, Opéra National
de Paris, Rossini Festival), he has also
received acclaim for his dramatic portrayals,
including
Paolo/
Simon
Boccanegra
(Metropolitan Opera), Riccardo/
I Puritani
(Turin’s Teatro Regio), and Miller/
Luisa
Miller
(Liège’s Opéra Royal de Wallonie).
He has given recitals at the Rossini Opera
Festival and has been heard in concert with
James Levine (
Simon Boccanegra
, Boston
Symphony Orchestra) and Riccardo Muti
(
Don Pasquale
, Ravenna Festival). As a
teenager, Alaimo won the Giuseppe Di
Stefano Competition in Trapani, later
performing there as Dandini/
La Cenerentola
.
He recently received the prestigious “Premio
Abbiati” award from the Association of
Italy’s Music Critics.
DIANA NEWMAN
(
Pedro
)
Previously at Lyric:
Woglinde/
Das Rheingold
(2016-17); Milliner/
Der
Rosenkavalier
, Beatriz/
Bel
Canto –
world premiere
(both 2015-16).
A second-year Ryan Opera Center member,
the American soprano will be heard at
Lyric later this season in
The Magic Flute
and
Carmen
. She is an alumna of the
University of Southern California (title
role/
L’incoronazione di Poppea
, Pamina/
The Magic Flute
, Miranda/
The Tempest
,
Lauretta/
Gianni Schicchi
, Belisa/
The Love
of Don Perlimplin
). Newman has also been
heard as the Page/
Rigoletto
with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic. Extensive concert
appearances include Schneider’s
Winter