Chorus
The Teatro alla Scala Chorus is synonymous with prestige and artistic quality, in Italy and worldwide.
The level of excellence attained is the fruit of the patient and meticulous work carried out over the years by chorus masters with the greatest sensitivity.
Important names should be mentioned: Vittore Veneziani, called by Toscanini in the immediate post-war period; Norberto Mola; the very strict Roberto Benaglio, a real sound engineer, between the 60s and 70s; Romano Gandolfi with Claudio Abbado.
More recently, Giulio Bertola, at the top of his skills, succeeded in giving as much importance to the symphony as to the opera repertoire. Then, in the 90s, Roberto Gabbiani gave Riccardo Muti a choir with gothic strings. He also strengthened the modern repertoire (Dallapiccola, Petrassi, Penderecki...) and the ancient (Gesualdo da Venosa), as well as Richard Strauss’s.
With Bruno Casoni, the current chorus master and a wise expert of voices (including treble ones), we get to that typical opera stage sound, powerful and moving at the same time.
Although the chorus mainly performs the opera repertoire, its flexibility allows it to face different types of concert: from the choral-symphony repertoire to chamber music, from the polyphonic repertoire to musicological researches, to the contemporary 20th century repertoire, with especially-composed pieces. Among these repertoires, it is worth mentioning the Mottetti and the Tres sacrae cantiones by Gesualdo da Venosa, the Missa Super iniquos odio habui by Luca Marenzio, the Missa L'homme armé by Carissimi and, above of all, the Messa da Requiem by Verdi, which is considered the highlight of the Chorus repertoire.
Over the years, the Chorus, as well as all the other companies of the Teatro alla Scala, has taken part in numerous and successful European and world tours in Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan and Korea.
Members of the Chorus
Chorus Master
Alberto Malazzi
Assistant Chorus Master
Giorgio Martano
Repetiteurs
Marco De Gaspari
Salvo Sgrò
Sopranos I
Gabriella Barone
Lucia Ellis Bertini
Chiara Butté
Margherita Chiminelli
Silvia Chiminelli
Tiziana Cisternino
Valentina De Vecchi
Stefania Ferrari
Injeong Hwang
Azusa Kubo
Rossella Lampo
Barbara Rita Lavarian
Rossella Locatelli
Silvia Mapelli
Roberta Salvati
Cristina Sfondrini
Sopranos II
Emilia Bertoncello
Maria Blasi
Rossana Calabrese
Silvia Del Grosso
Nadia Engheben
Annarita Fratangeli
Sara Garau
Elisabeth Ann Kilby
Sarah Park
Serena Pasquini
Alla Samokhotova
Silvia Spruzzola
Mezzo-Sopranos
Olivia Antoshkina
Giovanna Caravaggio
Marzia Castellini
Eleonora De Prez
Anna Maria di Micco
Alessandra Fratelli
Stefania Giannì
Valeria Matacchini
Maria Miccoli
Kjersti Ødegaard
Victoria Shapranova
Romina Tomasoni
Agnese Vitali
Contraltos
Eleonora Ardigò
Claudia Bocca
Laura De Marchi
Annalisa Forlani
Patrizia Molina
Amor Lilia Perez Lopez
Giovanna Pinardi
Daniela Salvo
Julija Samsonova
Olga Semenova
Vittoria Vimercati
Tenors I
Luigi Albani
Danilo Caforio
Lorenzo Decaro
Massimiliano Di Fino
Luca Di Gioia
Renis Hyka
Jae Ho Jang
Nao Mashio
Michele Mauro
Antonio Murgo
Joon Ho Pak
Mariano Sanfilippo
Angelo Scardina
Giorgio Giuseppe Tiboni
Flavio D'Ambra
Marco Pollone
Tenors II
Giovanni Carpani
Ramtin Ghazavi
Andrzej Glowienka
Massimiliano Italiani
Ki Hyun Kim
Giovanni Manfrin
Alessandro Moretti
Paolo Sala
Enrico Salsi
Andrea Semeraro
Young Hoon Shin
Mauro Venturini
Baritones
Guillermo Esteban Bussolini
Giuseppe Capoferri
Corrado Cappitta
Bruno Gaudenzi
Marco Granata
Devis Longo
Pier Luigi Malinconico
Alberto Paccagnini
Andrea Panaccione
Niccolò Scaccabarozzi
Alessandro Senes
Lorenzo B. Tedone
Giorgio Valerio
Basses
Davide Baronchelli
Lorenzo Cescotti
Sandro Chiri
Yonghoon Cho
Emidio Guidotti
Ernesto Morillo
Alessandro Perucca
Alberto M. Rota
Pietro Toscano
Shengato Xiao
Michele Zanchi
Gabriele Valsecchi
Chorus supervisor
Vito Marinaccio