ITALIAN SOUNDS

ANNA CIMMARRUSTI, soprano
Anna Cimmarrusti (Bari 1995) graduated with top honors, cum laude and an honorable mention from the “Niccolo Piccinni” Conservatory of Music in Bari. She continued to refine her studies at the Fiesole School of Music, the Opera School of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and the Rodolfo Celletti Academy in Martina Franca. Cimmarrusti has distinguished herself in such prestigious international competitions as the Riccardo Zandonai, Magda Olivero, Tommaso Traetta and the “Citta di Pienza”. Endowed with a rich lyric voice and a beautiful timbre, she stands out for her distinctive musical sensitivity, which allows her to approach leading roles with strong interpretative depth.
Making her debut as Carlina in Le serve rivoli by Traetta, Anna has performed the roles of Clarina in Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio, Serpina in La serva padrona by Pergolesi, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini, Anna in Le Villi by Puccini, Die Vertraute in Strauss’ Elektra which was conducted by Michael Balke at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, and Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Verdi in Florence.
Cimmarrusti took part in the extraordinary gala “Opera in concerto” conducted by Daniel Oren with Ludovic Tézier, for the Teatro Comunale’s symphonic season in Bologna.
She has performed extensively in chamber, symphonic, and sacred repertoire in Italy and abroad, including: the recent Te Deum by Bruckner, conducted by Donato Renzetti at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; a concert dedicated to the Puccini centenary at the Italian Embassy in Berlin; a series of concerts for the Icheon International Music Festival (Korea), the Eutherpe Foundation in Leon (Spain), the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the 50th ‘Festival della valle d’Itria’ in Martina Franca, the 45th Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, the Traetta Opera Festival, and the concert season of the ICO Symphony Orchestra of the Metropolitan City of Bari.
Anna has participated in modern premieres of the oratorio Santa Ferma by Caldara, the Magnificat in F minor by Fago, the Gloria in G and Laudate Pueri by Piccinni, and the Miserere a due voci by Capotorti, recorded for Dodicilune.
She will debut in the role of Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme at the Ticino Musica Festival.
Anna Cimmarrusti holds a degree in Literary Culture of the Modem and Contemporary Age from the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”.

LORENZO MARTELLI, tenor
Lorenzo Martelli (Avezzano 1998) began studying singing at a very young age, graduated in trumpet, and earned a degree in Opera Singing at the “A Casella” Conservatory in L’ Aquila. He has won numerous national and international competitions, including First Prize at the 74th AsLiCo Competition in 2023, and also the Emerging Tenor Award at the Portofino International Opera Competition in that year.
Martelli further refined his training at the Advanced Academy of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Bottega Donizetti in Bergamo, and the Academy of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
He has already collaborated with many renowned conductors – such as Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti Daniel Callegari, Giampaolo Bisanti, Marco Boemi, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Michele Spotti and many others.
Endowed with a bright, ringing timbre and secure upper register, he demonstrates a strong artistic personality in both comic and romantic roles, so that over the course of his career, Lorenzo has performed a wide range of roles: Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at both the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara and the Daegu Opera House in South Korea; and Pippetto in L’ajo nell’ imbarazzo at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. He has appeared as Don Polidoro in La finta semplice at the Teatro Goldoni in Florence and as Remendado in Carmen at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta. In Ferrara, he also distinguished himself as Basilio and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, while at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena he successfully performed the roles of Fenton in Falstaff and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto.
Martelli’s repertoire includes such Mozart roles as Tamino and Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, performed in numerous Italian theaters including the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and venues in Como, Cremona Brescia, Pavia, and Ferrara. He has performed Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Ernesto in Don Pasquale at both the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and in Siena, and also Rinuccio in Gianni
Schicchi at the Teatro Petrarca in Arezzo. As a soloist, his performances include the Coronation Mass K317, the Petite Messe Solennelle, and Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Theatre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels.
In 2025, Lorenzo made his debut as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Romana of Craiova, reprised the role of Monostatos in The Magic Flute at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, and stood out as Professor von Mucker in Der junge Lord at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He also performed the roles of Basilio and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro at the Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liége.
Martelli’s upcoming engagements include: Felice in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at the Opera Royal de Wa!llonie-Liége; Arlecchino in Pagliacci ar the Maggio Musicale Fiorencino in the 2026 season; Rustighello in Lucrezia Borgia, and a repeat of his role as Malcolm in Macbeth at the Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liege.

SARA MINIERI, soprano
Sara Minieri (Asola, 1997) graduated in operatic singing and piano from the Liceo Isabella d’Este in Mantua. She possesses a broad, wide-ranging, and powerful voice combined with the ability to perform the dramatic coloratura passages.
Minieri made her debut in 2015 in the role of Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Teatro Sociale in Mantua, and in 2016 as Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro Bibbiena in the same city. Winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the Pietro Boni Competition in Rivalta sul Mincio, she joined the Accademia Verdiana of the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2023 and has performed in numerous concerts and opera galas scheduled during the Verdi Festival in 2024. Also in that year she performed the role of Nella in Gianni Schicchi for the Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni in Modena.
In 2025, Sara performed in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the ensembles of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara and in Mozart’s Requiem in D minor for the Fondazione Rocca dei Bentivoglio, in collaboration with the Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni in Modena.
She was part of the cast off CEREMONY, an innovative production combining opera and contemporary music, created by the Fondazione Leone Magiera as part of the Bel Canto Festival’25 at the Teatro Pavarotti-Freni in Modena.
Minieri has also represented the Fondazione Leone Magiera at a concert for the International Izmir Festival in collaboration with the the ltalian Consulate in Izmir, and at a concert organized by the ltalian Culrural Institute in Warsaw. At the end of 2025, she made her debut with the Orchestra Senza Spine and the Regional Choir of Emilia-Romagna in Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K. 339 and Saint- Saens Oratorio de Noel.

GIULIO RICCO, baritone
Giulio Ricco (Parma, 2001) made his debut in 2021 at the Teatro Regio in Parma, playing the role of the Notary in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, He followed this in 2022 with the leading role of Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara under the direction of Daniel Smith, – a role he reprised the same year at the Daegu Opera House in South Korea.
In 2023 Ricco took on the role of Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the Teatro Magnani in Fidenza, confirming his affinity with the Donizetti repertoire. In that same year, he performed the role of Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’ Amore, appearing in Lucena, Spain, and at the Teatro Comunale in Taranto.
In 2025, Giulio toured Andalusia performing the role of Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale, and sang the role of the first Priest in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara as well as later at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza under the direction of Massimo Raccanelli.
Despite his very young age, Giulio is an ltalian bass-baritone who is establishing himself on the national and international opera scene thanks to his vocal solidity and strong stage presence. He is pursuing an artistic path focused on the comic repertoire and the bel canto style, which he approaches with his natural musicality, elegance, and a lively theatrical flair.

ALESSANDRO ZILIOLI, piano
Alessandro Zilioli (Brescia,1996) graduated from the Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza.
He has attended masterclasses and advanced courses with important teachers including Aldo Ciccolini and Roberto Cappello.
In 2020, he was admitted to the course for Accompanists at the Accademia del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Since then, he has collaborated regularly with such noted institutions as the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, the Opera de Tenerife and the Teatro Grande in Brescia.
As a collaborative pianist, rehearsal pianist and stage pianist, Zilioli has taken part in numerous productions from the great operatic repertoire (Tosca, Gianni Schicchi, La Fanciulla del West, Norma, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Turandot) as well as in lesser-known works such as Der Zwerg by van Zemlinsky and The Little Sweep by Britten.
Alessandro has collaborated with many important conductors, including Michele Spotti, Alessandro Bonato Riccardo Frizza, Carlo Boccadoro, Corrado Rovaris and Francesco Ivan Ciampa.