Andrea Zese

In 2004 Andrea Zese appeared with the Plovdiver Symphoniker in Heidelberg, Mosbach and Kaiserslautern, in programmes shared with Rossella Redoglia, Roberta Mattilli, Stoyan Daskalov and Milcho Borovinov. His Hannover appearance that year, with Lance Ryan, involved State Opera Stara Zagora and the Sofia Festival Choir. He studied at the Rovigo Conservatory and afterwards with Rina Malatrasi, Gino Bechi and Paolo Vaglieri, and made his debut as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at Marsala in 1991. His Verdi parts include Rigoletto, Macbeth, Amonasro, Giorgio Germont and Renato, sung at the Arena di Verona, La Fenice and the Teatro Regio in Parma, and he appears in sacred repertoire by Puccini, Verdi, Fauré and Dvořák and has given masterclasses in St Petersburg, Tokyo and Yerevan.