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Emilio Marcucci took his first steps into a theater in 2000 as a technician at the Teatro Regio of Turin while attending the University of Architecture. This is where he first met Opera. From 2002 to 2006 he worked as Project Coordinator of external activities of the Teatro Regio, managing the technical phase of many festivals and events such as Settembre Musica, Torino Danza, and Salone del Libro. In 2006 he was appointed Vice-Technical Director and continued his activity devoted to Regio’s external events focusing on the events associated with the Turin Winter Olympics and many others.

Equipped with his technical expertise and creative point of view, he collaborated throughout the following years in the design and execution phases of several scenographic projects for theater, exhibits, and fashion. In 2019 he created along with two other partners the DDS Company (Digital Design and Scenography), providing services for shows and events.

Running parallel to his technical career, he started his operatic studies in 2003 with soprano Aida Claretto Prestia. In 2004 he debuted on stage with the contemporary opera L'Aurora di gerusalemme by Arnaboldi, and participated in the AsLiCo lyrical competition for new talents, eventually to perform in their season. In 2005, he performed his first title role as Falstaff, directed by Maestro Claudio Desderi, with whom he would go on to work on several occasions; as Marcello in La Bohème, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, and Il Signor Bruschino. After many performances and operas, in 2007 he joined the Academy of Pesaro and sang Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims.

In 2008, he left the technical activities at Teatro Regio to devote his professional life to opera.

His career path as performer has also involved directing and teaching. Since 2015, in collaboration with Estate Musicale Frentana in Abruzzo (Central Italy), he has organized masterclasses on several operas of the classical repertoire such as La Traviata, L’Elisir d’Amore, La Bohème, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto--all of which are staged under his direction with the students of the masterclasses, working in close collaboration with local schools for the scenography and costumes, and ultimately performed in simplified versions for schools rather than in full to an open public.

In 2022 he decided to pursue a dream: create an open-air theater among the olive trees in his family’s grove in Abruzzo. Together with Elisa Martinotti and Matteo Sartini, he founded the foundation Il Teatro degli Ulivi to realize this inspirational project (for more, visit www.ilteatrodegliulivi.it).

Aaron McInnis, tenor, hails from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The young tenor began his career in the United States, making his professional debut in the small comprimario role of Nathanael in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann at Pacific Northwest Opera, and has since gone on to sing in Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Austria, gaining a reputation for his “density of timbre” (Olyrix) and a "beautiful, ringing tenor voice" (EntertainmentNewsNW). Aaron has most recently been heard on the stage of Alden Biesen Zomeropera as Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicci. Other recent engagements include Un Pastore/Uno Spirito (L’Orfeo) and Una Naiade (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) at the Wiener Staatsoper, Spoletta (Tosca) with OperaVia, Alfredo (La Traviata) with Pacific Northwest Opera, and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) with Lyric Opera Studio Weimar

Born in Turin where he studied composition, orchestra conducting, piano and chamber music, Federico Santi’s international career started in 2008 when he was awarded the First Prize as well as the Special Prize of the Nice Opera at the 4th International Competition for conductors in Orvieto.

This first major success as a conductor opened the door to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (concert version of Manon Lescaut), the Theater Bunkakaican in Tokyo (La Traviata) and the Opera Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Il trovatore). At the same time, he also started a long-term collaboration with the Mariinsky Theater in St Petersburg, conducting there an extensive italian repertoire including Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucrezia Borgia, Anna Bolena, La favorita, Linda di Chamounix, Gemma di Vergy, La sonnambula, Il Pirata, Beatrice di Tenda as well as I Capuleti e i Montecchi in the frame of the prestigious Festival “Stars of the White Nights”.

Federico Santi has more than 50 operas in his repertoire. He has collaborated with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (I Capuleti e Montecchi, Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Rouen Opera (Viva la mamma, Die Entführung aus dem Serail), the Montpellier Opera (Chabriers Une éducation manquée and Poulenc’s La voix humain), the Opéra Grand Avignon (Peter Grimes and Howard Moody’s Les Rêveurs de la lune), the Opéra Royal de Wallonie de Liège (La bohème and the world premiere of Daniel Schell’s Le sabotage amoureux, based on a novel by Amélie Nothomb), the Forest National in Bruxelles (Nabucco), the Festival of Alden Biesen (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Manon Lescaut, Gianni Schicchi and Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe), the Teatro del Bicentenario in León, Mexico (Madama Butterfly), the Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese (Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci), the Ente Concerti Marialisa de Carolis in Sassari (Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze), the Festival of Alexandria (Don Carlo), the National Opera of Timisoara (Le nozze di Figaro, Tosca), the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre in Moscow (L’Elisir d’amore).

He also dedicates himself to the study and deepening of a vast symphonic repertoire, conducting numerous lyric and symphonic concerts, from Haydn to contemporary composers, with particular attention to German, Russian and French romanticism and post-romanticism.

In addition, Federico Santi is Opera Coordinator and teaches Conducting and Orchestral studies at the Conservatory of Maastricht.

https://federicosanti.com/

Luciano Meloni is an Italian conductor, composer, and music theorist with a deep connection to all kinds of classical music. He performs regularly with many musicians, both instrumentalists and singers. His knowledge as a music theorist helps him interpret the pieces he performs, creating informed, creative and innovative performances. In the past few years, Luciano has been following masterclasses and assisted several opera productions with Maestro Federico Santi, most notably Le Nozze di Figaro and Gianni Schicchi. He is also a prolific arranger, having arranged several operas and symphonies.

Luciano is currently based in the Netherlands, where he studies Music Theory with Professor David Lodewyckx and Professor Inge Pasmans at Conservatorium Maastricht. At the Conservatoire Royal de Liège he studies Écriture Classique with Professor Edward Vanmarsenille and Professor Fabien Moulaert

With an artistic upbringing at La Scala, working aside the world’s greatest conductors, (Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Myung Wung Chung, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Oren, Gustavo Dudamel, Georges Pretre...), Paolo Spadaro is extremely adept in both the operatic and symphonic spheres. He is a regular guest of theaters, festivals, and orchestras at the international level such as Teatro alla Scala di Milano, la Fondazione Arena di Verona, la Dresdner Philharmonie, l’ Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Zagabria, i Cameristi della Scala, il Festival dei due mondi di Spoleto, il Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro, il Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Austria, la Jerusalem Symphony orchestra, la Zagreb Philharmonic orchestra, Alden Biesen Zomeropera in Belgio, l’ Orchestra dell' Accademia della Scala, l’ Orchestra Milano classica, l’Opera giocosa di Savona, la Beer-Sheva Sinfonietta… www.paolospadaro.it

The concert pianist and coach was born in Montebelluna, Italy, and began studying piano at three years of age. She studied with Professor Fausto di Cesare in Rome, Italy, and would go on to study concert piano and pedagogy in Seoul, South Korea, and as a coach of operatic literature with Professor Maksimilijan Cencic in Vienna, Austria. At the conclusion of her studies, she taught as a lecturer at the Superior National Music University in Quito, Ecuador. Gathering experiences on stage and behind the scenes as a concert pianist and coach, Ms. Lee has worked across Europe, Asia, and South America. She now lives in Vienna, Austria, and works as a coach at the Wiener Staatsoper.

Graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatorio Morlacchi di Perugia, and in Vocal Studies from the Conservatorio A. Casella di L’Aquila with the highest marks, he went on to graduate in Literature from the Università di Roma Tor Vergata. After his academic studies, he began to work intensely as a tenor soloist, engaging with important academies and theaters in Italy and around the world (Argentina, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, USA, Japan, and in Africa), interpreting principal roles of the great european and italian operatic repertoire; ranging from Verdi to Puccini to Donizetti. At the time in which he began his piano studies, he studied composition and choral conducting, which would lead him to start a choir in 2001, Armonia Mundi, that he leads to this day. This choir is the core of the operatic and concert organization, Primadopera, which he himself founded. His activity as a composer spans from ventures in the choral realm such as the mass Emmanuel for soloists, chorus, and orchestra; I 30 Affreschi Orchestrali for symphonic orchestra; the operas La Notte di Euridice and Il Sogno di Sandy; and numerous compositions for solo piano and film.

Davorin Mori is a Vienna based slovenian pianist and conductor.

He made his breakthrough at the Opening Festival of Salzburger Festspiele in 2016, where he conducted Karen Asatrian´s Mass Prayer Wheel for Jazz ensemble and Choir. The live recording of the concert was released by Universal Austria.

As guest Conductor he regularly cooperates with RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Among others he also conducted the RSO Vienna, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Armenian Symphony Orchestra, KONSE Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Choir Vienna, Barock Orchester and Choir of Cappella Albertina Wien with whom he performed G. F. Hädels Messiah and F. Mendelssohns Elias in the Franciscan Church Vienna. At the Opera Festival Oper im Kulturglashaus he conducted the operettas The Merry Widow by F. Lehár and The White Horse Inn by R. Benatzky.

He is founder and Artistic Director of Camerata Sinfonica Austria. With the orchestra he performed on many major festivals and concert halls in Austria such as Klassik im Burghof, St. Pauler Kultursommer, Oper in Kulturglashaus, among others.

In 2023 a CD and LP were released by Skip Records Hamburg, which he recorded together with this chamber orchestra and the accordionist Klaus Paier.

More info on Davorin Mori at http://www.davorinmori.com/

Alexandra Hauser began playing the violin at the age of 5 with Prof. Lucine Balikian at the McGill Conservatory in Montreal. After studying at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal (with Josée Aidans and Helmut Lipsky) and at the Schulich School of Music (McGill University, with Axel Strauss), Ms. Hauser completed her Bachelor's degree with Lena Neudauer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in December 2020 in Munich. In February 2023, Ms. Hauser completed her master's degree at the University of Music and Theater in Munich with Lena Neudauer and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Michael Frischenschlager. Ms. Hauser has won several prizes at national and international competitions, which permitted her to perform in European concert halls as well as in Canada and the US, with her repertoire extending from Baroque to the 21st century. As a passionate orchestra musician, Ms. Hauser has performed under the direction of renowned conductors such as Kent Nagano, Markus Poschner, Thomas Dausgaard, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Alexis Hauser, Marcus Bosch, Louis Lavigueur and Jean-Marie Zeitouni. Since September 2022, Ms. Hauser has been playing in the 1st violin group of the Bruckner Orchester Linz.