EKATERINA SEMENCHUK
https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/opera_women/semenchuk_ek1
In the past seasons, she sang at the Metropolitan Opera the roles Marina (Boris Godunov) and Polina (The Queen of Spades), as well as her first Azucena (Il Trovatore) in Valencia under the baton of Zubin Mahta. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden she has sung Olga (Eugene Onegin) and at the Berlin Staatsoper she was Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino) and Polina (The Queen of Spades), all these under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim. With Valery Gergiev, she has performed Didon (Les Troyens) at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Among many other impressive appearances, worth mentioning also her performances as Fricka (Die Walkure) with the Los Angeles Opera.
In 2013, her performance as Eboli (Don Carlos) directed by Peter Stein and conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano made a splash at the Salzburg Festival.
Verdi Il Trovatore/Stride la vampa/ Ekaterina Semenchuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24HdVdYjg84
Don Carlos Salzburg 2013 Nei giardin del bello Eboli Semenchuk Ekaterina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYvHgoPuG7E
Verdi Aida Judgment scene. Semenchuk Ekaterina as Amneris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8PMHPoJWyI
Neshat, Netrebko und der „Aida“-Spagat
http://orf.at/salzburgerfestspiele17/stories/2402107/
Mezzo Backstage - Metropolitan New-York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEMv6mtWR18&t=29s
New York Metropolitan Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFM5rmX16A&t=11s
What Happens Just Before Show Time At the Met Opera | The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdUScE7VZq8
Times Lapse Video: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera | The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOwHmjASrgs
Metropolitan Opera Side Stage Wagons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bo_eTTvBU&t=139s
Tech breathes new life into Metropolitan Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8_TjRecpEM
Metropolitan Opera House Moves (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk-6CnnmO6k
Inside the old Metropolitan Opera House, beautifully dressed patrons 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEkzi2bch0
Metropolitan Opera House ends 83 years of music with gala performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CojCtPM6NUI
nx 34263 "opera" 2 shots crowd outside net, sign "save the met," man in formal clothes arrives, girls has hand kissed, crowd in lobsy, lucia albanese, leontyne price, cesare siepi, regina resnick, renate tebadi & fausto clevs, fernando corena & roberta peters, anna moffo, 2 shots rudolph ring talks to audience, 2 shots orchestra, tilt interior. (47 ft 1:10, shot 4/16/66) albanese, lucia lleontyne, prince cesare, siepi resnik, regena tebaldi, renate clevs, fausto cohena, fernando peters, roberta moffo, anna bing, rudolh crowds - theaters metroplitan opera house
Curtain Call in The Met Opera's 50th Anniversary at Lincoln Center 05.07.17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhSzndFPb3k&t=1s
Francesco Meli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Meli
Francesco Meli (born 1980 in Genoa) is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. He began his vocal studies at age 17 with Norma Palacios at the Conservatorio di Musica "Niccolò Paganini" in Genoa. He later became a pupil of mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiucci. In 2002 he debuted in Verdi's Macbeth and as the tenor soloist in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle and Puccini's Messa di Gloria, broadcast by RAI (the Italian state broadcasting company) from the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He has gone on to sing leading roles in La Scala, The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Regio di Torino, London's Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Lyon, Zurich Opera, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. In 2017, he will make his debut as Verdi's Don Carlo at La Scala and as Radames in Salzburg next to Anna Netrebko's Aida
Il trovatore - 'Di quella pira' (Francesco Meli/Lianna Haroutounian, The Royal Opera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNCn2Haitc
Francesco Meli - L'elisir d'amore, una furtiva lagrima, e Traviata, de' miei bollenti spiriti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVThA-nKyU
Luca Salsi
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Salsi
Luca Salsi (San Secondo Parmense, 1975) è un baritono italiano, distintosi in particolare nel repertorio verdiano
Luca Salsi - La Traviata : « Di Provenza il mar » (Verdi) - Live @ Concert de Paris 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnW-bI-kt8
LUCA SALSI e JIHYE SON - RIGOLETTO - Si, Vendetta (Bis del concerto Teatro Regio Parma 2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk0LpUDvRDs
Luca Salsi canta la cavatina del Barbiere di Siviglia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ft5u65_Owk