Mauro Trombetta’s series of master-classes became the first significant event in the new year at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. Since 2002 – the year of the opening of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre there have been organised artistic meetings and master classes directed by coryphaei of the world art among whom were Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Pokrovsky, Teresa Berganza, Mimi Coertse, Paata Burchuladze, Placido Domingo, Riccardo Muti, Dennis O’Neill, Tomas Hampson, Peter Stein… Those lessons are invaluable artistic exprience, additional resources for your singers to grow, necessary for their own artistic expeiments. Certainly, these series of master-classes led by the leading Italian musician and peagogue became an important stage in the singers’ education. Mauro Trombetta heads international competitions, he was the artistic director of the Arena di Verona festival and Bellini Theatre in Catania and now – head of the Rome Opera House. Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre would like to thank the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow for its support and organisation of the master-classes in which apart from the Opera Centre soloists there also participated students of the Moscow State Conservatory and Moscow State Institute of Music named after A. Schnittke.
Mauro Trombetta
Mauro Trombetta graduated from Conservatorio di Torino. He studied vocal performance with Elio Battaglia, composition with Enrico Correggia, and conduting with Alberto Peyretti and Fulvio Vernizzi. At the age of 24 he debuted as baritone and performed for 10 years in some of the best Italian and European theaters (including Hamburg, Zagreb, Lugano, Vienna, Lilla, Nizza, Bologna, Roma, Torino). Tombetta took part in numerous concert recordings for TV and radio in Torino and Rome. He is also engaged in many operatic events and festivals both in Italy and abroad (Novara, Savona, Susa, Bergamo, St. Etienne, Lyon and many others). Trombetta works a lot as a conductor performing concerts in Assisi, Torino, Lugano, Verona, Udine. He published a volume of rare religoius music pieces of Saverio Mercadante from the archives of Novara Cathedral. At the age of 30 Trombetta begins his administrative career as a coordinator of theatre events occupying the position of artistic secretary of Teatro Regio di Torino. Later he worked as a head of artistic administration of all’Opera di Roma, then he became the artistic director of Arena di Verona and later served as artistic director of Teatro Bellini in Catania, then he returned to Arena di Verona till 2002. Since 2003 Trombetta has been the Artistic Director of the Rome Opera House. For seven years he served as curator of opera and symphony events in Teatro Carlo Coccia in Novara, and then was appointed as Director of Civico Istituto Musicale Brera in Novara. Trombetta led vocal and theatre management workshops in Italy (Portogruaro, Pescara, Foggia, Lamezia Terme), USA (Pittsburg, Palm Beach), Iceland (Reijkjavik), Turkey (Istambul, Ankara) and Germany (Bad Mergentheim). He is a president and jury member of many international music competitions (Pamplona, Madrid, New York, Roma, Spoleto, Monaco, Vienna, etc.) Trombetta published many articles on musical theory and vocal performance. He is a professor of singing in the A. Peri Music College in Reggio, Emilia. In 2008 Mauro Trombetta was a jury member at the International Opera Singers Contest of Galina Vishnevskaya.