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VITTORIO GRIGOLO

Tenor

Born in Arezzo and raised in Rome, his musical path started from an early age. As a child, he sang as a soloist in the Sistine Chapel choir, later making his debut as the Shepherd in Tosca alongside Luciano Pavarotti. He made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan at the age of twenty-three, in a concert under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Within a few years, he was appearing around the world with distinguished conductors as of Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel and Antonio Pappano.

He has appeared on the most prestigious city theatre stages as Verona, München, Orange, Berlin, Barcelona, New York, Paris, Zurich, London, Wien. He has performed leading roles in both Italian as French operatic repertoire such as Carmen, Don Carlo, Faust, Il Trovatore, La Bohème, La Traviata, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon, Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette and Tosca.

During the 2023/24 season Vittorio Grigolo will perform Tosca on tour with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, as well as at the Vienna State Opera and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He will be Canio in I Pagliacci at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Manrico in Il trovatore at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

Highlights of the 2022/23 season are appearances at the Teatro San Carlo and Wiener Staatsoper in La bohème, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Tosca and Il trovatore, and returns to Teatro alla Scala for a new production of Les contes d’Hoffmann. Concert appearances include recitals in Milan and Prague, as well as a Gala concert in Tokyo and Buenos Aires. Later that season, he performs Alfredo in La traviata and Cavaradossi in Tosca at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival. At the Ravello Festival, he performs in a concert dedicated to Frank Sinatra.

Vittorio is a successful recording artist with a platinum debut album, a Grammy-nominated recording of Bernstein's West Side Story and four albums with Sony Classical.

MZIA BACHTOURIDZE

Piano

Mzia Bachtouridze, from Tbilisi, Georgia, holds a piano degree from Moscow Conservatory. She began her concert career in Soviet Union's prestigious halls, collaborating with Bolshoi Theatre and conductors like Evgenij Svetlanov, Yuri Temirkanov. At La Scala Theatre, Milan, she worked with conductors like Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev. She now performs as an accompanist at top international musical institutions in Europe and America with acclaimed singers like Ramón Vargas, Elina Garanca, Piotr Beczala, Vittorio Grigolo.

PROGRAM OF THE RECITAL

Vincenzo Bellini

Dolente immagine di Fille mia

Vanne, o rosa fortunata

Malinconia, ninfa gentile

Per pietà, bell’idol mio

Giacomo Puccini

Foglio d’album (for piano solo)

Gioachino Rossini

from Soirées musicales

La danza

Gaetano Donizetti

from Il Duca d’Alba

Inosservato, penetrava… Angelo casto e bel

Giuseppe Verdi

from Macbeth

Coro e ballabile (for piano solo)

from Il Corsaro

Ah sì, ben dite... Tutto parea sorridere

- INTERVAL -

Francesco Paolo Tosti

Chanson de l’adieu

Pour un baiser

‘A vucchella

Ideale

L’ultima canzone

Giya Kancheli

5 miniatures (for piano solo)

Stanislaus Gastaldon

Musica proibita

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Mattinata

Pietro Mascagni

from Cavalleria rusticana

Intermezzo (for piano solo)

Ernesto De Curtis

Ti voglio tanto bene

Manuel Ponce

Intermezzo no. 1 (for piano solo)

Vincenzo D’Annibale

‘O paese d’ ‘o sole