Jonas Kaufmann (born 10 July 1969) is a German operatic tenor. He is best known for his performances in spinto roles such as Don José in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the title role in Don Carlos. He has also sung leading tenor roles in the operas of Richard Wa...

Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires in 1942 and began learning the piano under the guidance of his parents. In 1952, the family emigrated to Israel. At the age of 11, he took lessons in conducting with Igor Markevitch in Salzburg and continued his training with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He ...

Antonio Pappano is Music Director of The Royal Opera, a position he has held since 2002. During his tenure he has conducted an extensive repertory, including works by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Ravel, Berg, Shostakovich and Britten, as well as the world premieres of Birtwist...

Christof Loy (born 5 December 1962) is a German stage director especially for opera, whose work received several awards. A freelance director, he has staged operas from Baroque to premieres of new works at major European opera houses and festivals. He is known for directing works by Mozart.

Marianela Núñez (born 23 March 1982) is an Argentine-British ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, London. She has three brothers, all older than she is. Her mother sent her to ballet classes when she was three. At first, she took dance classes at her teacher's garage. A...

Franco Zeffirelli has proven himself as a talented director of operas, plays and feature films. He has found the most success in the opera house. Though critics haven't always been in favor of his flamboyant staging, his audiences have been bedazzled by it. In fact, his elaborate set designs have...

William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944) is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in baroque and classical repertoire and is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.

The recipient of the 2021 Opus Klassik as Singer of the Year has become an acclaimed fixture on the most important stages of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Teatro alla Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Berlin State Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, and the Opéra de Paris. Her...

Luca Pisaroni (born 1975) is an Italian operatic bass-baritone, known for his roles in Mozart's operas, but who has steadily expanded his repertoire into the Baroque as well as moving beyond into Rossini.

After his musical training in Milan, Buenos Aires and New York, Pisaroni's professional ope...

Natalia Petrovna Osipova (born 18 May 1986) is a Russian ballerina, currently a principal ballerina with The Royal Ballet in London. Osipova began formal ballet training at the age of nine at the Mikhail Lavrosky Ballet School. From 1996 to 2004, she studied at the Moscow State Academy of Choreo...

Gary Avis MBE is an English ballet dancer who is currently a Principal Character Artist and Senior Ballet Master with The Royal Ballet, London. Avis was born in Ipswich. He was first trained in musical theatre, and had performed in the Royal Variety Performance. He did not start ballet until he w...

Explore the collection of titles featuring Alessandro Fantoni, Tenor.

Alessandro Ravasio is a bass musician.

He started his musical studies in early childhood, playing the piano and the saxophone.

When he was 18, he discovered his passion for singing, and finally graduated at Scuola Civica di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan in 2017. His repertoire mostly consists ...

Hailing from Marignane in the South of France, Mastrosimone boasts an impressive professional career. He began as a dancer with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Switzerland, moving on to work with European companies such as Alias Compagnie in Geneva and Les Jeunes Ballets de France in Paris and even p...

The art of Valery Gergiev is in great demand throughout the world. The maestro is a vivid representative of the St Petersburg conducting school and a former pupil of the legendary Professor Ilya Musin. While still a student at the Leningrad Conservatoire, Gergiev won the Herbert von Karajan Compe...

Steven McRae was raised in the Sydney suburb of Plumpton the son of a drag racer He started dancing at age seven, after watching his older sister in her dance classes. He studied tap as well as ballet He was soon being entered for the performing-arts competitions in Australia known as eisteddfods...

Xabier Anduaga is a Spanish operatic tenor. He was both joint first prize winner of the Operalia competition held in Prague in 2019 and joint recipient of the prize for zarzuela there. Xabier Anduaga was born in 1995 in San Sebastián, Spain and studied at the Musikene College of Music. In 2016 he...

The Italian bass, Salvo Vitale, had studied at the Scuola Civica di Milano, be fore he studied singing with E. Abumradi, E. Martelli and A. Goussev and attended the master-classes in Baroque singing held by Alan Curtis. In the 2000-2001 season, under the musical direction of Roberto Gini, Salvo V...

Konstantin Derri, born in Kryvyi Rig (Ukraine), Konstantin began his musical career studying piano, graduating from Kryvyi Rig music college (Piano) in 2007. In 2009 Konstantin entered the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia (Valencia, Spain) under the tutelage of Professor Ana Luisa Cho...

The bass Adam Palka was born in Poland in 1983 and had his early musical training at the Gdańsk Music Academy, where he took part in the first performance of Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s Comedy of the Dumb Wife. He established an international reputation with concerts in Germany, France, Italy, Russ...

Born in Montpellier, Charvet lived in New-York for up to five years. She began studying music at the age of six and sang in the choir of Claire Marchand then at the Maîtrise de Radio France where she took part at the age of 9, in the choirs, in her very first opera, the musical tale of Julien Jo...

Born in Canada, she studied at Brandon University and the University of Michigan. From 1994 to 2011 she was a member of the San Francisco Opera. Here she accompanied the world premieres of Conrad Susa's THE DANGEROUS LIAISIONS, Jake Heggie's DEAD MAN WALKING, Sir André Previn's A STREETCAR NAMED ...

Pieczonka was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and grew up in Burlington, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1985, and from the Opera School of the University of Toronto in 1988. She made her professional stage debut with the Canadian Opera Company in 1988 singing The...

Adrian Sâmpetrean was born 1983 in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and finished his vocal studies at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of his home town (Professor M. Sâmpetrean). He is winner of various singing competitions (International Singing Competition Hariclea Darclée, International Singing Competitio...