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Oksana Dyka

She won the 2003 Marseilles International Opera competition which lead to her performance as Tosca at the National Opera of Montpellier in 2005, a role which she sang again that year at the Estonian National Opera opposite Sergei Leiferkus as Scarpia, at the Dalhalla Opera Festival in Sweden; in 2008 she sang that role at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and at the Arena di Verona.

Vladimir Atlantov

Video record of his performances: Sadko - Bolshoy, 1975; The Queen of Spades - Bolshoy, 1982; Otello - Arena di Verona, 1982; Khovanshchina - Vienna, 1989; The Queen of Spades - Vienna, 1991.


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Éva Marton

Since 1983, she has performed the role over a hundred times including at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Arena di Verona, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera, Opera Company of Boston under Sarah Caldwell (in 1983), Barcelona, and Houston Grand Opera.

Juan J. Colomer

His classical work, as a composer or orchestratror, has been performed and recorded by James Levine, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Christian Lindberg, Vienna Symphony orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, Orchestra & choir of the Arena di Verona, Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, Orquesta de Castilla y León and Spanish Brass.

Salvatore Sciarrino

He has composed for: Teatro alla Scala, RAI, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Stuttgart State Opera, Brussels La Monnaie, Frankfurt Opera Theatre, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Suntory Hall.