Rinaldo

The countertenor Carlo Vistoli studied at the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara and at the University of Bologna, and made his stage debut in 2012 as the Sorceress ("Dido und Aeneas"). In 2015, he was admitted to the Baroque academy Le Jardin des Voix under the direction of William Christie, with whom he has collaborated ever since, and he took part in John Eliot Gardiner’s "Monteverdi 450" project. He has appeared, among others, in "Orlando furioso" at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, as Idraspe in Cavalli’s "Erismena" at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in "L’incoronazione di Poppea" at the Salzburg Festival, in "Orfeo ed Euridice" in Robert Carsen’s production in Rome, and in "Semele" in Paris, London, and Milan. He sang Goffredo in "Rinaldo" at the Opéra de Lausanne as well as Tolomeo in "Giulio Cesare" at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Premio "Franco Abbiati". At the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he made his debut in 2022 as Ruggiero in "Alcina" with Cecilia Bartoli under Gianluca Capuano, and sang the role again in 2025 at the Opera in Rome. Again together with Bartoli and Capuano, he performed Pergolesi’s "Stabat Mater" on tour and sang the title role in "Giulio Cesare" at the Vienna State Opera. In 2024, he made his American debut as Arsace ("Partenope") at the San Francisco Opera, where he was also recognized as an emerging artist. At La Scala in Milan, he sang in 2025 in the much-acclaimed world premiere "Il nome della rosa" by Francesco Filidei. Carlo Vistoli has recorded several CDs, including for the labels Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Brilliant, Ricercar, and Arcana.

Christophe Dumaux is one of the leading countertenors of his generation. His international breakthrough came in 2001 as Eustazio ("Rinaldo") under René Jacobs in Montpellier. Since then, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Opéra de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Salzburg Festival, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, La Scala in Milan, and the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. He is one of the most sought-after interpreters of Handel. His signature roles include the title role in "Orlando", Polinesso ("Ariodante"), Tolomeo, the title role in "Giulio Cesare", and Nerone ("Agrippina"). His repertoire also includes Cavalli’s Eliogabalo and Giasone as well as Endimione in "La Calisto", Ottone in Monteverdi’s "L’incoronazione di Poppea", Farnace in Mozart’s "Mitridate", and Orfeo in Gluck’s "Orfeo ed Euridice". At the Zurich Opera House, he has appeared, among others, in Christoph Marthaler’s Handel pasticcio "Sale", as Melindo in Vivaldi’s "La verità in cimento", and most recently as Arsamene ("Serse") and Nerone ("Agrippina"). He regularly works with conductors such as William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm, Gianluca Capuano, Giovanni Antonini, Andrea Marcon, Ivor Bolton, Philippe Jaroussky, Ottavio Dantone, Francesco Corti, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as well as with directors such as Claus Guth, David McVicar, Robert Carsen, Calixto Bieito, Barrie Kosky, David Alden, Christof Loy, Barbora Horáková, and Richard Jones. He can be seen as Tolomeo in DVD recordings from Glyndebourne, Theater an der Wien, and the Salzburg Festival. A solo album with Handel arias was released in 2020.

Karine Deshayes wurde nach ihrer musikalischen Ausbildung bei Mireille Alcantara und Régine Crespin Mitglied der Opéra National de Lyon, wo sie u.a. als Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) und als Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) zu hören war. Regel­mässig gastiert sie an der Opéra national de Paris und sang dort bisher u. a. die Titel­partie in Monteverdis L’in­coronazione di Poppea, Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Romeo (I Capuleti e I Montecchi) Cherubino, Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Angelina (La Cenerentola) und Elena (La donna del Lago). Ausserdem gab sie an dem Haus ihre Rollendebüts als Carmen und als Charlotte in Werther. Sie gastierte an der San Francisco Opera als Angelina (La Cenerentola), an der New Yorker Met als Siebel in Faust, als Isolier in Le Comte Ory, als Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann und als Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, bei den Salzburger Festspielen als Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, am Teatro Real de Madrid als Adalgisa (Norma) und als Angelina, in Marseille als Romeo, in Brüssel als Marie de l’Incarnation (Dialogues des Carmélites) und beim Festival de Radio France als Elvira (I Puritani). In der Spielzeit 2019/20 sang sie Adalgisa am Théâtre du Capitole in Toulou­se, Angelina in Liège, Marguerite in einer konzertanten Aufführung von La Damnation de Faust in der Cité de la Musique in Paris, gab einem Liederabend an der Opéra National de Bordeaux und sang die Titelrolle in Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra beim Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Bereits zum dritten Mal wurde Karine Deshayes 2020 bei den Victoires de la Musique Awards als Lyric Artist of the Year ausgezeichnet.

The Trinidad-born soprano Jeanine De Bique studied voice and piano at the renowned Manhattan School of Music in New York. Her wide-ranging repertoire includes roles such as Télaïre ("Castor et Pollux"), Ilia ("Idomeneo"), Violetta ("La traviata"), the title roles in "Alcina" and "L’incoronazione di Poppea", Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni"), Susanna ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Annio ("La clemenza di Tito"), Micaëla ("Carmen"), Agathe ("Der Freischütz"), Helena ("A Midsummer Night’s Dream"), and La Folie ("Platée"). Guest engagements have taken her to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Theater an der Wien, the Opéra National de Paris, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the San Francisco Opera, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and the Houston Grand Opera, as well as to the BBC Proms and the Salzburg Festival. At the Zurich Opera House, she sang Isabel in George Benjamin’s "Lessons in Love and Violence" in 2023. She has worked with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Vienna and Rotterdam Philharmonics, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the London Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and with conductors including Gustavo Dudamel, Herbert Blomstedt, Lorin Maazel, Iván Fischer, Simon Rattle, Manfred Honeck, William Christie, Raphaël Pichon, and Marin Alsop. Her first solo album "Mirrors" with Ensemble Concerto Köln received the Opus Klassik, the Diapason d’or, and the Edison Award in the classical category in 2022, was Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice, and was praised by Fono Forum. Jeanine De Bique was appointed Youth Ambassador for Peace by the National UNESCO Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.

Regula Mühlemann was born in Lucerne. She studied singing with Barbara Locher. In 2018, the soprano was awarded the Opus Klassik as Young Artist of the Year. Highlights of her past seasons include her role and house debut as Susanna (“Le nozze di Figaro”), Adina (“L’elisir d’amore”), and Blonde (“Die Entführung aus dem Serail”) at the Vienna State Opera, Susanna (“Le nozze di Figaro”) during the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin Festival Days under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, as well as her role debut as Ilia (“Idomeneo”) in concert performances at the Baden-Baden Festival Theatre under the musical direction of Thomas Hengelbrock, Gilda in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at Theater Basel, Adele in Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” at the Vienna State Opera and at Teatro Maggio Musicale in Florence under the musical direction of Zubin Mehta, Juliette (“Roméo et Juliette”) at the Lucerne Theatre, Echo (“Ariadne auf Naxos”) at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, and as Pamina in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” in summer 2022, as well as Marie (“La fille du régiment”) at the Opera de Monte Carlo. Regula Mühlemann’s debut album “Mozart Arias” won the German Record Critics’ Award in 2017. Further albums include “Fairy Tales” and “Lieder der Heimat.” She has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Nello Santi, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Pablo Heras-Casado, Ivor Bolton, Christian Thielemann, and Gianandrea Noseda, and has performed in the most prestigious concert halls in Europe. At Zurich Opera House, she most recently appeared as Susanna (“Le nozze di Figaro”) as well as in a lieder recital.

The bass Nahuel Di Pierro was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied voice at the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón and appeared there as Masetto (“Don Giovanni”), Figaro, Colline (“La bohème”), and Guglielmo (“Così fan tutte”). After joining the Paris Opera Studio and the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, he went on to perform at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dutch National Opera, in Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and regularly at the Paris Opera, as well as at the festivals in Salzburg, Glyndebourne, and Beaune. His roles include Leporello (“Don Giovanni”) in Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, and Tel Aviv; Colline and Masetto at the Royal Opera House in London; Osmin (“Die Entführung aus dem Serail”) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Guglielmo at the Edinburgh Festival; the title role in “Le nozze di Figaro” at the Houston Grand Opera; Seneca (“L’incoronazione di Poppea”) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Osmin at the Zurich Opera House and in Geneva; and Claudio (“Agrippina”) also in Zurich. Recent concert highlights include Handel’s “Messiah” and Paisiello’s “Missa Defunctorum” in Salzburg, Bach’s “St John Passion” and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” in Paris, Mozart’s “Requiem” in Versailles, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Regio di Torino, in Valencia, and at the Wiener Festwochen, as well as Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His discography includes recordings of the baroque operas “Les Paladins” and “Ercole Amante,” as well as Mozart’s “Betulia liberata” and “Requiem.” He also released the album “Anclao en Paris,” dedicated to the tango music of his hometown Buenos Aires.

Christophe Dumaux is one of the leading countertenors of his generation. His international breakthrough came in 2001 as Eustazio ("Rinaldo") under René Jacobs in Montpellier. Since then, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Opéra de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Salzburg Festival, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, La Scala in Milan, and the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. He is one of the most sought-after interpreters of Handel. His signature roles include the title role in "Orlando", Polinesso ("Ariodante"), Tolomeo, the title role in "Giulio Cesare", and Nerone ("Agrippina"). His repertoire also includes Cavalli’s Eliogabalo and Giasone as well as Endimione in "La Calisto", Ottone in Monteverdi’s "L’incoronazione di Poppea", Farnace in Mozart’s "Mitridate", and Orfeo in Gluck’s "Orfeo ed Euridice". At the Zurich Opera House, he has appeared, among others, in Christoph Marthaler’s Handel pasticcio "Sale", as Melindo in Vivaldi’s "La verità in cimento", and most recently as Arsamene ("Serse") and Nerone ("Agrippina"). He regularly works with conductors such as William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm, Gianluca Capuano, Giovanni Antonini, Andrea Marcon, Ivor Bolton, Philippe Jaroussky, Ottavio Dantone, Francesco Corti, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as well as with directors such as Claus Guth, David McVicar, Robert Carsen, Calixto Bieito, Barrie Kosky, David Alden, Christof Loy, Barbora Horáková, and Richard Jones. He can be seen as Tolomeo in DVD recordings from Glyndebourne, Theater an der Wien, and the Salzburg Festival. A solo album with Handel arias was released in 2020.

The French countertenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian is considered one of the most exciting young vocal talents of our time. He graduated from the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the Conservatoire de Paris. He regularly appears at renowned opera houses, concert halls, and festivals throughout Europe. He made his debut as Polinesso ("Ariodante") under the direction of Gianluca Capuano at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and as Didymus ("Theodora") he performed alongside Joyce DiDonato, Lisette Oropesa, and Michael Spyres at the Theater an der Wien, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and La Scala in Milan. He sang Ottone ("L’incoronazione di Poppea") at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in Rennes, and in Cologne. As Ulisse in Porpora’s "Polifemo," he was seen under Emmanuelle Haïm at the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra de Lille, and the Opéra Royal de Versailles. In 2025, he sang Endimione in Cavalli’s "La Calisto" at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. On the concert stage, he has appeared in "Tamerlano" with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs, as well as in Domènec Terradellas’ "Merope" with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin under Francesco Corti. In the 2025/26 season, he will perform the title role in "Orlando" at the Opéra Lausanne, Ottone ("Agrippina") at the Opéra de Rouen, and Bach’s "St. Matthew Passion" on tour with Raphaël Pichon and the Ensemble Pygmalion. In 2022, CD recordings were released of Purcell’s "Royal Odes" with Le Banquet Céleste, and Handel’s "Theodora" with Joyce DiDonato, Lisette Oropesa, Michael Spyres, and Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev.