Mro Colin Attard, Gaulitana: A Festival of Music artistic director, has been in Italy sitting on an auditioning board following the invitation of the Associazione Lirica Mario del Monaco of Modena. Several up-and-coming singers from various countries lined up for these auditions.
The other auditioning board members were Mro Hirofumi Yoshida, artistic director of Bologna’s Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale and Tokyo’s Sawakami Opera Foundation, Mro Stefano Giaroli, conductor and president of the operatic production house Fantasia in Re, baritone Fulvio Massa, artistic director of Bologna’s Centro Croce Coperta, soprano Gabriella Morigi, composer and accordionist Silvano Ballerini. Another board member was pianist Claudia Rondelli from Parma’s Conservatorio Arrigo Boito, who was also the accompanist. Baritone Marzio Giossi, artistic director of the Associazione Lirica Mario del Monaco chaired the board.
This was a collaboration between Gaulitana: A Festival of Music and the Associazione Lirica Mario del Monaco.

