La traviata

Marina Monzó was born in Valencia, where she studied flute and singing. In 2016, she made her debut in the title role of "La sonnambula" at the Bilbao Opera and became a member of the Accademia Rossiniana. Since then, she has regularly appeared at the Rossini Opera Festival. She has sung roles including Gilda ("Rigoletto") and Oscar ("Un ballo in maschera") at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Queen of the Night ("The Magic Flute") at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Gilda and Contessa Folleville ("Il viaggio a Reims") at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Zerlina ("Don Giovanni"), Dircé ("Medea") and Ismene ("Mitridate") at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Norina ("Don Pasquale") and Giulietta ("I Capuleti e i Montecchi") at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Giulia ("La scala di seta") and Berenice ("L’occasione fa il ladro") at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Norina and Adina ("L’elisir d’amore") at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Despina ("Così fan tutte"), Musetta ("La bohème"), Oscar and Lauretta ("Gianni Schicchi") at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, Countess Almaviva ("Le nozze di Figaro") at the Santa Fe Opera, as well as at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in "Doña Francisquita" and "Marina". In the 2025/26 season, she will perform in the title role of "Benamor" at the Theater an der Wien, as Cleopatra ("Giulio Cesare") at the Palau de les Arts, as Norina at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, as Zerlina at the Teatro de la Maestranza, as Adina at the Liceu Barcelona and the Bavarian State Opera, as Musetta at the Royal Opera House London and at the San Carlo in Naples, as Gilda at the Semperoper Dresden, and as Nannetta ("Falstaff") at the Opera Rome. In 2022, she was awarded Best Young Singer at the Ópera XXI Award and Best Young Artist at the Ópera Actual Award.

The tenor Bekhzod Davronov comes from Samarkand (Uzbekistan) and studied at the State Conservatory there. He was a member of the opera studio and subsequently an ensemble member at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. In 2021, he won second prize at the Operalia Competition. Recent highlights include Cassio ("Otello") at the Vienna State Opera, Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni") at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Prunier ("La rondine") at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Alfredo ("La traviata") at the Santa Fe Opera, Rodolfo at the Prague State Opera and on tour with the Glyndebourne Festival, Anatol Kuragin in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Prokofiev’s "War and Peace" under Vladimir Jurowski at the Bavarian State Opera, and Aljeja ("From the House of the Dead") at the Ruhrtriennale. In 2024/25, he debuted as Alfredo and Rodolfo at Dallas Opera, sang Edgardo ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Rodolfo and Alfredo at the Semperoper Dresden, Duca di Mantova ("Rigoletto") at the Irish National Opera, and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Leicester ("Maria Stuarda"). In 2025/26, he will make his house debut at the Royal Opera House London as Alfredo and his role and house debut as Roméo ("Roméo et Juliette") at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. He will also return as Edgardo to the Vienna State Opera, as Duca di Mantova and Nemorino ("L’elisir d’amore") to the Bavarian State Opera, and as Rodolfo and Roméo to the Semperoper Dresden.

Baritone Roman Burdenko was born in Russia and studied at the conservatories in Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. He was a prizewinner at international singing competitions in Moscow and Paris, as well as at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia in Beijing (2012) and the Belvedere Singing Competition in Amsterdam (2013). From 2006 to 2011 he was a soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and, from 2017, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He performs on the world’s leading opera stages, including La Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Arena di Verona, the Opéra de Paris, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Opera Amsterdam, and the Salzburg Festival. His repertoire includes Scarpia ("Tosca"), Iago ("Otello"), Tonio ("Pagliacci"), Alfio ("Cavalleria rusticana"), Don Carlo di Vargas ("La forza del destino"), Rodrigo ("Don Carlo"), Alberich ("Der Ring des Nibelungen"), Giorgio Germont ("La traviata"), Jack Rance ("La fanciulla del West"), Amonasro ("Aida"), Tomski ("Pique Dame"), Enrico Ashton ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Barnaba ("La Gioconda"), as well as the title roles in "Rigoletto," "Nabucco," and "Macbeth." Most recently, he appeared as Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as Amonasro at the Opéra de Paris and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and as Michele ("Il tabarro") at the Opéra de Paris. He made his debut at the Zurich Opera House in 2015 as Ford and has since returned as Count Tomski, Alfio, Tonio, Lord Enrico Ashton, and most recently as Macbeth.

Siena Licht Miller, a German-American mezzo-soprano, studied voice at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She completed her training with courses at Opera Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Aspen Music Festival. She is a scholarship holder of the Bagby Foundation, 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 parts 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 direction of Robert Spano. She also regularly focuses on art song. She performed in the series "The Song Continues" at Carnegie Hall in celebration of her mentor Marilyn Horne and went on a US recital tour with pianist Kevin Murphy. In the 2020/21 season she was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House, where she appeared in "Maria Stuarda", "Simon Boccanegra", "Viva la mamma", "Salome", "Odyssee", in the ballet "Monteverdi", in "L’italiana in Algeri", as well as Flosshilde in "Das Rheingold". Since the 2022/23 season she has been a member of the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House, where she was most recently seen as Lucilla ("La scala di seta") and Hänsel ("Hänsel und Gretel").

Liliana Nikiteanu studied at the Conservatory in Bucharest. She received her first permanent engagement in 1986 at the Musiktheater Galati. She has won numerous awards, and in 2000, Opernwelt named her "Best Young Singer of the Year." Her repertoire includes over 80 roles, which she has performed in Zurich, where she has been an ensemble member since 1991, as well as in other opera houses, including Octavian ("Der Rosenkavalier") at the Bastille, the Vienna and Hamburg State Operas, Ježibaba ("Rusalka") in Montreal, Sesto ("La clemenza di Tito") in Dresden, Rosina ("Il barbiere di Siviglia") in Vienna and Munich, Dorabella ("Così fan tutte") in Dresden, Munich, Salzburg, and Aix-en-Provence, Fjodor ("Boris Godunow") in Salzburg, Margarethe ("La damnation de Faust") in Brussels, and Dulcinée ("Don Quichotte") at Theater an der Wien. In Zurich, she has performed all Mozart roles of her fach as well as roles such as Ljubascha ("Die Zarenbraut"), Nurse (Dukas’ "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue"), and Fricka ("Das Rheingold"). As a concert singer, her repertoire ranges from Bach to Berio. In Bamberg, she sang Berenice by Haydn under Adam Fischer, in Paris Berlioz’ "Les nuits d’été" under Heinz Holliger, in Copenhagen Verdi’s Requiem, and in Tel Aviv and Haifa Bruckner’s Te Deum under Zubin Mehta. Conductors who have shaped her include Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Franz Welser-Möst, John Eliot Gardiner, René Jacobs, and Philippe Jordan. Most recently, in Zurich, she has performed roles including Tisbe ("La Cenerentola"), Praškowia ("Die lustige Witwe"), Mama ("Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig"), Sir Pumpkin ("In 80 Tagen um die Welt"), as well as in the music-theater evening created for her, "Wie du warst! Wie du bist!"

The Cuban-Colombian tenor Anthony León studied at La Sierra University in Riverside (California) as well as at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (Massachusetts). He has been honored with numerous prestigious awards. In 2024, he was a finalist of the Rising Star Award of the International Opera Awards and received the Richard Tucker Career Grant. In 2023, he won the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition; at Operalia 2022, he was awarded First Prize as well as the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Zarzuela Prize. In addition, he received a Career Development Grant from the Sullivan Foundation and was portrayed, among others, in "Opera News". In the 2025/26 season, he makes his house and role debut at the Teatro Regio di Torino as Belmonte in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" and also sings this role for the first time at Glyndebourne. In addition, he makes his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Ferrando in "Così fan tutte" and returns to the LA Opera, where he sings Fenton in "Falstaff" for the first time. His repertoire also includes roles such as Count Almaviva in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Remendado in "Carmen", Nemorino in "L’elisir d’amore", Tamino in "Die Zauberflöte", Don Ottavio in "Don Giovanni" and Spoletta in "Tosca". From 2022 to 2023, he was a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program of the Los Angeles Opera. Guest engagements have taken him, among others, to the Cologne Opera, to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, to the Santa Fe Opera, to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as well as to the Salzburg Festival.

Evan Gray is a Swiss bass-baritone from Winterthur. He began his musical training as a treble with the Zürich Boys’ Choir and later transitioned to the bass voice. After initial vocal studies at the Winterthur Conservatory, he continued his education at the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. His roles to date include the Forester ("Das schlaue Füchslein"), Figaro ("Le nozze di Figaro"), and Leporello ("Don Giovanni"). As an accomplished recitalist, he has performed Schubert’s "Winterreise" and Vaughan Williams’ "Songs of Travel" multiple times and has collaborated with artists such as Julius Drake and Robert Holl. From 2023 to 2025, he was a guest at the Marlboro Music Festival, where he developed a close artistic relationship with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who has invited him back for the summer 2026 edition. Since the 2025/26 season, Evan Gray has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zürich Opera House.

Stanislav Vorobyov comes from Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He was a member of the International Opera Studio and has been an ensemble member at the Zurich Opera House since the 2018/19 season. Here he has appeared, among others, as Colline ("La bohème"), Alidoro ("La Cenerentola"), High Priest ("Nabucco"), Notary ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Reinmar von Zweter ("Tannhäuser"), Faust ("The Fiery Angel"), Zaretsky ("Eugene Onegin"), Cesare Angelotti ("Tosca"), Fifth Jew and 1st Nazarene ("Salome"), Lord Rochefort ("Anna Bolena"), Doctor Grenvil ("La traviata"), Crébillon ("La rondine"), Zuniga ("Carmen"), Roberto ("I vespri siciliani"), Roucher ("Andrea Chénier"), Police Commissioner ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Marchese Calatrava ("La forza del destino"), Tom ("Un ballo in maschera"), Brühlmann ("Werther"), as well as Faust ("The Fiery Angel"), Gold Dealer ("Cardillac") and Méphistophélès ("La Damnation de Faust"). In addition, he sang Don Basilio ("Il barbiere di Siviglia") at the Bregenz Festival, Nourabad ("Les Pêcheurs de perles") at Opera Flanders and in Luxembourg, as well as Ombra di Nino ("Semiramide") at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. At the Bregenz Festival he appeared as Uncle Bonzo in "Madama Butterfly" and as Il capitano/L’ispettore in Giordano’s "Siberia". In 2024, he also appeared as Colline ("La bohème") at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater and at the ROHM Theatre Kyoto.

Martin Zysset was born and raised in Solothurn. He trained in clarinet while simultaneously pursuing vocal studies, which he complemented with masterclasses with Ernst Haefliger and Edith Mathis. In 1990/91, he was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House and at the same time a scholarship recipient from the Migros Cooperative Union as well as a prizewinner in the Pro Arte Lyrica Competition in Lausanne. Since 1992, he has been a regular guest at the Summer Festival in Selzach. He has been permanently engaged at the Zurich Opera House since 1991. Here, he has developed a broad repertoire of both buffo and dramatic roles, including Pedrillo, Monostatos, Spoletta, Incredibile ("Andrea Chénier"), Jaquino, Kudryash ("Káťa Kabanová"), Alfred ("Die Fledermaus"), Tamino, Tybalt, Dancaïro, Arturo, Knusperhexe, Brighella, as well as the male lead in Udo Zimmermann’s "Weiße Rose." He performed Simplicius in the operetta of the same name by Johann Strauss, which was also released on CD and DVD. Guest appearances have taken him across Europe, to Shanghai, and with "The Magic Flute," "Le nozze di Figaro," "Fidelio," and "Tannhäuser" to San Diego. For the Bayerischer Rundfunk, he recorded the Lehár operetta "Paganini." In Zurich, he has most recently sung roles including Don Basilio ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Tschekalinski ("Pique Dame"), Triquet ("Eugene Onegin"), the Chief Eunuch ("The Land of Smiles"), Goro ("Madama Butterfly"), Spoletta ("Tosca"), Dormont ("La scala di seta"), the White Minister ("Le Grand Macabre"), the Devil/Narrator ("The Soldier’s Tale"), the Third Jew ("Salome"), Schmidt ("Werther"), Feri ("Die Csárdásfürstin"), and Don Curzio ("Le nozze di Figaro").