Featured Artist
Lorenzo Passerini
Lorenzo Passerini was born in Morbegno in 1991. He graduated with honours in trombone at Como Conservatory in 2009. He then took a masters degree at Aosta Conservatory, graduating in 2014 with full honours again. As a trombonist, he has toured worldwide under the baton of famous conductors such as John Axelrod, Andrey Boreyko, Fabio Luisi and Riccardo Muti. At the same time as starting his career as a trombonist, he began studies in conducting in 2010 with Ennio Nicotra. He also undertook tuition from John Axelrod, Massimiliano Caldi, Gilberto Serembe, Pietro Mianiti, Oleg Caetani and Antonio Eros Negri. He
Featured Artist
Damiana Mizzi
Italian soprano Damiana Mizzi began her musical training at the age of 8, studying piano. She went on to attend the Nino Rota Music Conservatory in Monopoli (Bari) earning her diploma under Maria Grazia Pani, and completed her studies with Amelia Felle and now with Mariella Devia. In 2008 she obtained the Master Degree in Performance of the solistic repertoire at Nino Rota Music Conservatory. She has participated in Master Classes with Natale De Carolis, Manuela Custer, Stefano Giannini, Domenico Colajanni, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Daniela Barcellona, Tiziana Fabbricini, and recently with Renata Scotto at the Opera Studio in the Accademia Nazionale
June 17, 2020
GM Art&Music Signs Tenor Celso Albelo for General Management
With his truly genuine bel-canto voice, Celso Albelo is currently one of the most courted tenors on the international opera circuit. Born in Santa Cruz in Tenerife, he trained in the conservatoire in his home town and at the Escuela Superior de Canto Reina Sofía in Madrid before being accepted at the Busseto Academy. His international career has taken him
April 6, 2020
Jessica Pratt on the cover of OperaLife
Our beautiful and wonderful Jessica Pratt is interviewed by Alessandro Bugno, talking about opera, her childhood, her family, her hobbies for this month's release of OperaLife magazine. You can read the full interview here: https://operalife.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=987&Itemid=607
March 6, 2020
Maria Agresta on the cover of OperaLife magazine
Maria Agresta is interviewed by Alessandro Bugno, talking about opera, her hobbies, her socia media, family, for OperaLife magazine. A beautiful image of our charming and gentle Maria. You can read in full here: https://operalife.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=961&Itemid=594
February 17, 2020
Aleksandra Kurzak's new album "Desire" to be released on 8th May on Sony Classical
Sony Classical has announced the forthcoming release of Aleksandra Kurzak's new album Desire on 8th May 2020. For her first solo album by Sony, Aleksandra celebrates the great romantic heroines of the operatic repertoire she loves, from Tosca to Leonora, Adriana or Tatiana... ❝ These heroines speak directly to my soul and to my heart, since I was a child.
February 6, 2020
Four GM's artists nominated finalists for Opera Award prizes
Four GM's artists nominated finalists for Opera Award prizes, in three different categories. Maria Agresta as Best Female Singer, Riccardo Frizza as Best Conductor, Zuzana Marková and Xabier Anduaga as Best Young Singer. The shortlist was compiled by an impressive international jury drawn from a range of backgrounds including critics, opera directors, conductors and designers, chaired by John Allison, editor
January 23, 2020
Track from Jessica Pratt's album Serenade has been used in an American series
The American series 'The Morning Show', with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, used a track from Jessica Pratt's album Serenade with pianist Vincenzo Scalera, for background music in a scene with Jennifer Aniston. The aria is Malinconia, ninfa gentile by Vincenzo Bellini. You can find the scene here: https://youtu.be/fCGf0fv0ccg
January 14, 2020
GM Art & Music signs Elizabeth DeShong for Management
GM Art & Music is delighted to announce the signing of the management for american mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong. Opera News wrote of Elizabeth DeShong's performance as Sesto in the Los Angeles Opera's production of La Clemenza di Tito: "Elizabeth DeShong took pride of place as Sesto. Completely unrecognizable in her beard and dingy armor, DeShong sang with the range, expressiveness
December 30, 2019
M° Nicola Luisotti Among the Winners in the Second Edition of the Opera XXI Awards
Nicola Luisotti is one of the winners of the Second Edition of the Opera XXI Awards. The jury chose to award M° Luisotti for Best Musical Direction for his Turandot at Teatro Real in Madrid in 2018. https://www.plateamagazine.com/noticias/8015-nicola-luisotti-sondra-radvanovsky-christof-loy-leonor-bonilla-opera-de-butxaca-o-la-casa-de-bernarda-alba-entre-los-galardonados-en-la-segunda-edicion-de-los-premios-opera-xxi
December 30, 2019
Airam Hernández wins Schaunard Award
Airam Hernández has won Schaunard Award, presented by magazine Place de l'Opera, for best individual performance of the year. Fifteen opera experts nominated twelve artists for the prize, this year for the seventh time. "It is a great honor for me to receive the Schaunard Award for this production, " Airam said. "It was a pleasure to sing this wonderful
December 2, 2019
Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna On the Cover of "Das Opernglas"
Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna are pictured together on the front page of the December issue German magazine "DasOpernglas". The feature includes a 6-page illustrated joint interview by Ursula Ehrensberger. "A happy couple in life, experiencing dramatic relationships together on stage, as in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. A conversation about a singer life for two." The magazine (in German) is available in