Master Class
Marco Camastra (bariton)
2009 Summer Music Festival
Masterclass for Opera Singing
M° Marco Camastra.
MARCO CAMASTRA, baritone, is the winner of many international competitions, and among them : the "Ferrante Mecenate" in Adria, the "Toti dal Monte" in Treviso, the "Francesco P.Neglia" in Enna and the Prize "Carlo Tagliabue" in Parma.
He made his debut in 1987 at the Opera Theatre of Sanremo singing in Madama Buttterfly (Scharpless) and in Elisir d'Amore (Belcore). His great ability in the comic roles and belcanto has gained him international appraisal. He performed in the best Italian theatres such as Teatro alla Scala of Milan , Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, Arena of Verona, Teatro Regio of Turin, Teatro Verdi of Trieste, Teatro Comunale of Bologna ,Teatro dell'Opera of Rome, Teatro Bellini of Catania, Teatro La Fenice of Venice, Teatro Regio of Parma and the historic Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, and abroad in many cities such as Wien, Berlin, Tokio, Rotterdam, Seul, Lugano, Nancy, Cannes, Monte-Carlo, Tel Aviv, Tenerife, Lima, Bangkok, Tirana, Tallin and La Valletta.
His repertoire includes operas such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, L'Italiana in Algeri, Don Pasquale, L'Elisir d'Amore, Linda di Chamounix, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni, Cosi' fan Tutte, La Boheme, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Romeo et Juliette, Carmen and L'amour des Trois Oranges. He also sang under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Zubin Metha, Daniel Oren, Placido Domingo, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Bruno Bartoletti, Riccardo Chailly, Nello Santi, Renato Palumbo, Gary Bertini, Bruno Campanella, Maurizio Arena, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Roberto Abbado, Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Aprea, Arturo Sacchetti, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Alain Lombard, Herbert Soudant, Garcia Navarro, Alain Guingal, and with the producers Franco Zeffirelli, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Pier'Alli, Gilbert Deflo, Ugo Gregoretti, Zhang Yimou, Filippo Crivelli, Giuliano Montaldo, Lamberto Puggelli, Denis Krief, Hugo De Ana, Gino Landi and Federico Tiezzi.
Later then repertory more merely lyric-theatrical, with Operas that ranged from '700 to the contemporary music, he sang in a lot of Operettas in the most prestigious International Festivals,and he has a large activity in the range of Sacral Music and in particular we remember the execution and recording of a large number of Oratorios by Lorenzo Perosi. He recorded also La Pietra delParagone by Bongiovanni , Carmen, Turandot by TheCompanion Classic and in DVD, Turandot by EMI, Carmen by Fondazione Arena di Verona, Adriana Lecouvreaur by Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Madama Butterfly by Festival di Torre del Lago.
He performed the Messa in Sol maggiore by Schubert in Sala Nervi in Vatican in the presence of His Holy Father Pope John Paul II. Recently he sang Turandot at Teatro Massimo of Palermo conducted by Nello Santi, Manon Lescaut at Deutsche Operberlin conducted by Renato Palumbo and Don Giovanni in the roule of Leporello under the baton of Stefano Ranzani and directed by Filippo Crivelli, Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze at Teatro Piccinni of Bari, Turandot at Teatro "G.Verdi" of Salerno and Manon Lescaut at Teatro dell'Opera of Rome under the baton of Donato Renzetti, Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro Regio of Turin under the baton of Bruno Campanella, Carmen at Arena of Verona conducted by Daniel Oren and Lucia di Lammermoor in the production by Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Gianluca Martinenghi.
Teacher : Marco Camastra (bariton)
Pianists accompanist : Inseon Lee, Yeami Ra
Period : 8 – 15 August 2009
Ending date for applications : 25 July
Place : Convento di S. Antonio dei Cappuccini - Lugnano in Teverina (Terni)
Final Concert : Wednesday 12 August h. 21.30
Chiesa di S. Maria Assunta - Lugnano in Teverina (Terni)
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