Olga Peretyatko, born in St. Petersburg, studied singing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and then belonged to the opera studio of the Hamburg State Opera. In 2007, she was a prize winner at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition. This was followed by engagements at the Komische Oper, the Deutsche Oper and the State Opera in Berlin, the State Operas in Munich and Dresden, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Met, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Vienna State Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Rossini Opera Festival. She worked with renowned conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev and Alberto Zedda. She attracted international attention in 2009 as the Nightingale in Robert Lepage’s acclaimed production of Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, which was seen in Toronto as well as at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the New York City Opera and Amsterdam. Her repertoire includes, among others, Lucia di Lammermoor, Alcina, Matilde di Shabran, Elvira (I puritani), Violetta (La traviata) and Donna Anna. Olga Peretyatko has released six albums and won several awards, including the “OPUS Klassik” (2018), the “ECHO Klassik” for best solo album (2015) and the “Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana.” Recently, she was heard in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Hamburg State Opera performing all four female roles, as Maria (Mazeppa) at the Baden-Baden Festival, as Gilda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, as Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Liù (Turandot) and Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles) at the State Opera Unter den Linden, as well as Maria Stuarda at the Sydney Opera House.

Siena Licht Miller, German-American mezzo-soprano, studied voice at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She completed her training with programs at Opera Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Aspen Music Festival. She is a scholarship holder of the Bagby Foundation and a prizewinner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Marilyn Horne Rubin Foundation, and the Gerda Lissner Foundation.

Highlights of her career so far include role debuts as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and one of the two solo roles in the world premiere of Denis and Katya by Philip Venables at Opera Philadelphia. At the Aspen Opera Center, she sang the title role in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges under the baton of Robert Spano.

She also regularly dedicates herself to song repertoire. She appeared in The Song Continues recital series at Carnegie Hall in honor of her mentor Marilyn Horne, and toured the United States with a recital alongside pianist Kevin Murphy.

In the 2020/21 season, she was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich, where she performed in Maria Stuarda, Simon Boccanegra, Viva la mamma, Salome, Odyssee, in the ballet Monteverdi, in L’italiana in Algeri, and as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold. Since the 2022/23 season, she has been a member of the ensemble at Zurich Opera House, where she recently appeared in Barkouf, Salome, Anna Karenina, Lakmé, La rondine, Die Walküre, and Götterdämmerung.

She also sang the title role in Handel’s Serse at Theater Winterthur.

Levy Sekgapane, born in Kroonstad, South Africa, studied singing at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. During his studies, he participated in various opera productions in South Africa, including La bohème, The Rake’s Progress, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. In the 2015/16 season, he was a member of the Young Ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden. After winning the Operalia singing competition in 2017, guest engagements took him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra national de Paris, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Donizetti Festival Bergamo, and the Salzburg Festival. In the 2021/22 season, he sang, among others, in the world premiere of The Time of Our Singing by Defoort at La Monnaie in Brussels, Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Vienna State Opera and in Malmö, Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) in Los Angeles, Lindoro (L’italiana in Algeri) in Zurich, Ernesto (Don Pasquale) at the Hamburg State Opera, a song recital together with Lawrence Brownlee, as well as a soloist in a Rossini gala at the Vienna State Opera. In 2019, his solo debut album with Rossini arias was released with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Giacomo Sagripanti.

The baritone Enrico Marabelli was born in Pavia, Italy. He made his operatic debut as Ford in «Falstaff» in Como, Italy, as a winner of the AsLiCo singing competition. Since then, he has performed at some of the world’s major opera houses and has worked with conductors such as Bruno Campanella, Nicola Luisotti, Enrique Mazzola, Kazushi Ono, Daniel Oren, and Alberto Zedda. His key roles include Don Bartolo in «Il barbiere di Siviglia», Fra Melitone in «La forza del destino», as well as appearances in «L’elisir d’amore» at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. At Teatro alla Scala in Milan, he appeared as Masetto in «Don Giovanni», and at La Monnaie in Brussels as Ford and in «La sonnambula». At the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he portrayed Dandini in «La Cenerentola». Further engagements have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Germano in «La scala di seta», to the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv as Mercutio in «Roméo et Juliette», and to the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago for «Tosca» and «Madama Butterfly». He has also appeared in «Il viaggio a Reims» and «La pietra del paragone» at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and in «Il turco in Italia» at the Theater an der Wien. Most recently, he has sung the roles of Gianni Schicchi and Enrico VIII («Anna Bolena») in Hong Kong, Lescaut («Manon Lescaut») at the Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa, Sergeant Sulpice («La fille du régiment») at Grange Park Opera, as well as Fra Melitone and Dulcamara («L’elisir d’amore») at Theater Bonn.

Nahuel Di Pierro is from Buenos Aires. He studied singing at the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón, where he performed roles such as Masetto (Don Giovanni), Haly (L’italiana in Algeri), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Colline (La bohème), and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte). After engagements in the Paris Opera Studio and the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, he appeared at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, in Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and at the festivals in Salzburg, Glyndebourne, and Beaune, as well as regularly at the Paris Opera. His repertoire includes Leporello (Don Giovanni) in Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, and Tel Aviv; Colline and Masetto at the Royal Opera House; Osmin at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Guglielmo at the Edinburgh International Festival; and Lorenzo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In the 2022/23 season, he sang Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Houston Grand Opera and Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona. In concert, he has performed with the Ensemble Matheus, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, and Le Concert d’Astrée and appeared with the Orchestre National de Paris under Kurt Masur, James Conlon, and Daniele Gatti, as well as with the Orchestre de Paris under Louis Langrée, Jérémie Rohrer, and Bertrand de Billy. At the Opernhaus Zürich, he has been heard as Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Créon (Médée), Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and in Il viaggio a Reims, King Arthur, Le Comte Ory, and Semele.

Martin Zysset was born and raised in Solothurn. He trained in clarinet and simultaneously completed vocal studies, which he complemented with masterclasses by Ernst Haefliger and Edith Mathis. In 1990/91 he was a member of the International Opera Studio (IOS) and in the same year received a scholarship from the Migros Cooperative Union as well as an award at the Pro Arte Lyrica competition in Lausanne. Since 1992, he has been a regular guest at the Summer Festival in Selzach. He has been engaged at the Opernhaus Zürich since the 1991/92 season, where he developed a broad repertoire ranging from buffo to dramatic roles, including Pedrillo, Monostatos, Spoletta, Incredibile (Andrea Chénier), Jaquino, Kudrjasch (Katja Kabanowa), Cassio, Peppe, Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Spalanzani, Tamino, Tybalt, Dancaïro, Arturo, Knusperhexe, Brighella, as well as the male lead in Udo Zimmermann’s Weisse Rose. He achieved great success portraying the title role Simplicius in the rediscovered operetta by Johann Strauss, which was also released on CD and DVD. Guest performances took him throughout Europe, to Shanghai, and with productions of Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro, Fidelio, and Tannhäuser (Walter) to San Diego. He recorded Lehár’s operetta Paganini for Bavarian Radio. Most recently at the Opernhaus Zürich, he sang roles including Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Tschekalinski (Pique Dame), Triquet (Jewgeni Onegin), the Chief Eunuch (Land des Lächelns), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Spoletta (Tosca), Dormont (La scala di seta), the White Minister (Le Grand Macabre), the Devil/Narrator (Die Geschichte vom Soldaten), the Third Jew (Salome), Schmidt (Werther), and Feri (Die Csárdásfürstin).