CASSI, MARIO (b 1973 )Mario Cassi made his operatic début in 2001 with Laboratorio “Voci in Musica” by Musica per Roma Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Signor Lupo in Henze's Pollicino. He has been the winner of several important international competitions, including the 2002 Toti Dal Monte and Viotti (special Prize Cesare Bardelli), the Placido Domingo Competition, Operalia 2003 (Zarzuela Prize), and the Spiros Argiris 2004 (second prize). He continues under the guidance of Bruno de Simone and Alessandra Rossi De Simone, and graduated in Economics at Florence University. His career has brought collaboration with leading conductors and directors, and his operatic repertoire ranges from Handel, Porpora and Mozart to the contemporary, with special attention to Italian bel canto works. In addition to appearances throughout Italy, he made his début at Lausanne in 2005 in Salieri's La grotta di Trifonio, also recorded with Les Talens Lyriques, and in 2006 sang Achilla in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, with Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Liège, among other appearances in 2007, continuing with Valentino in Faust in Valencia and Mercurio in La Calisto in Paris.
JANUARY 2009
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