Julia Zenko mezzo-sopran(Elena)
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Artistic experience
Julia Zenko went on a world tour with Gidon Kremer, Horacio Ferrer y José A. Trelles performed the opera -Tango María de Buenos Aires, by Astor Piazzola and Horacio Ferrer. She played the main role (first voice), María. This world tour included the United States, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Greece, Japan, Poland, and Israel. In Austria, the opera was directed by Philippe Arloud. She was invited to be part of the concert of Gidon Kremer in the television program NPS in Holland.
Other recent works include: - Concerts with Lito Vitale and Susana Rinaldi in Tokyo. - The J.V.C Festival that took place in the Carnegie Hall, New York, where she presented "Julia de Buenos Aires;" and shared the stage with Paquito Rivera, Gary Burton, Joe Lovano and Pablo Ziegler among others. - Six concerts in the Festival of Bregenz, and in Viena with Gidon Kremer and the Baltic Kremerata, and in the Festival de Mentón (France). - The Festival of Orvieto, in Italy.

Honors and Awards
ACE, Prensario, Festibuga, Konex, entre otros.

Recordings
2000.- "Mis 30 mejores canciones"
1998.- "Julia de Buenos Aires" música de Piazzolla.
1997.- "María de Buenos Aires," the opera by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, with the violinist Gidon Kremer, Jairo and H. Ferrer.
Between 1983 and 1997 she recorded 10 records.

 
Carlos Vittori tenor (Orestes)

Study
He started his studies of Vocal Technique with Cassini Fermi, and later continued with Diego Sanclemente. He took classes of technique and interpretation with Ricardo Yost. He took classes about "Approaching the Character" given at Teatro Colón, and an acting workshop for lyrical singers directed by Eugenio Troisi. He received two scholarships from Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. In the first one, he developed the roles of the lyrical repertory in operas such as La Traviata y Lucía de Lammermoor; the second scholarship was for his master in: Vocal Technique with Ana Sirulnik; Repertory with G. Valerio; and Stage with P. Benedetti; carrying out the protagonists of Rigoletto, La Boheme y Carmen. He participated in the Theater and Musical Comedy Workshop; took master classes in charge a Mrs. Norma Aleandro, where he developed the role of Güido in the musical Nine. He continues his education at Teatro Colón, where he is doing his "Ciclo de Perfeccionamiento" directed by Reynaldo Censabella in Repertory and by Ana Sirulnik in Vocal Technique.

Music and Theatre
He has interpreted the Oratorio de Navidad, op.12, with the Domine Rerum Orchestra (dir. Fernando Alvarez). This work was later edited in CD. He played Gaston in La Traviata (dir. Carlos Calleja), Don Octavio in Don Giovanni (dir. Fernando Alvarez), and Maese Pedro in El Retablo de Maese Pedro. He participated in numerous concerts organized by Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, in the Salón Dorado of the Teatro Colón and in the Casa de la Cultura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aries. He played Camile in La Viuda Alegre de Franz Lehar, in the concert "From Vienna to Teatro Colón," directed by Richard Edlinger. He played the leading role in Antología de la zarzuela; Einsenstein in El Murciélago (J. Strauss), directed by Richard Edlinger, at the Teatro Colón. During the year 2000, he played the leading role in Les Miserables at Teatro Opera (Buenos Aires), under the stage preparation of Ken Caswell and the musical work in charge of David White and the author Claude Michael Shöemberg. He played Alfredo in the opera La Traviata in Santiago de Chile, Chile. He performed in Messa da Requiem de Verdi, in Buenos Aires and in Rosario, under the direction of Calderón.

 
Susana Moncayo mezzo-sopran (Nélida)

Study
Mezzosoprano studies with Dr. Julio Somaschini and at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires. Studied with Ernst Haefliger (swiss), and with Denise Dupleix (french) through the scholarships of Fundación Leonor Hirsch. Doctor of Phonology, Universidad del Museo Social Argentino. Continued her studies in Germany with Jean Stawsky and Julio Mirón.

Artistic experience
As opera soloist, chamber and oratory, she has performed in numerous theaters in Germany, Italy, Chech Republic and Argentina. She has played Carmen (Bizet); Anna in the Seven Capital Sins (Kurt Weill), Suzuky in Madame Butterfly (Puccini), Lola de Cavalleria Rusticana (Puccini), in Giulio Cesare (Haendel), Cherubino in Bodas de Figaro (Mozart); Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell). Theater plays and musicals: Federico (dir. N. Krass D. Edery), Chau, Carlitos (dir. Serrano), De las raíces y del cielo (dir. O. Rey), Kabarett criollo (dir. B. Gambartes), Flying reserved area (dir. Manfred Killer - Munich).

 
Rodolfo Valss bariton (Soriano)

Study
He studied lyrical song with Noemi Souza and popular repertory with Sergio Tulian. He studied Jazz Dance with Moira Chapman, and theater body expression with Paulina Ozona. At the Conservatorio Nacional he studied Stage.

Artistic experience
In his 20 years of experience in comedy, he has performed in numerous plays, and in the most important produccions in Argentina of musical-comedy. He has performed protagonist roles in Chicago as Billy Flynn, in Les Miserables as Monsieur Thenardier, in Cinderella as El Padre Rey, in La zapatera prodigiosa as Federico García Lorca, in El Jorobado de París as Cardenal Claudio Frolo, in Irma la dulce as Bob, in Street 42 as Julian Marsh, in El diluvio que viene as Padre Silvestre y in Eva as Mario. He performed in Beauty and the Beast as Maurice, en Mamá es una estrella as Robert, in La loca de la colina as El proletario, in Tango-Tango as singer, in La mujer del año as Phill Morris and in Annie as Berth Heaty.

Honors and Awards
1987 Revelación Actor Comedia Musical 1989-1990 Best Singer of the Season, Viña del Mar, Chile. 2001 Nominated as Best Actor of Musicals of the decade. KONEX.

 
Carlos Rivarola dancer (Morales)

Study
Carlos Rivarola began dancing folk at the age of 8 and made his professional debut when he was 15 at the Mar del Plata Teatro Auditorium with Mariano Mores, Hugo del Carril and María Ester Gamas, among others.

Artistic experience
In the 70´s he performed on TV and at the fanciest Buenos Aires cabarets, sharing stage with artists of the stature of Roberto Goyeneche, Armando Pontier, Carlos Acuña, Oscar Aleman, Panchito Cao, Roberto Rufino, Alberto Castillo, Roberto Grela, Tania, Juan Carlos Copes, Elvira and Virulazo, Sexteto Tango and Virginia Luque.
In 1975, he went on a tour with his partner María around Peru, Colombia and Venezuela performing a Nélida Nelson´s show. Later they formed the Buenos Aires Ballet together with other dancers. In the 1980´s Bergara Leumann invited them to appear on La Botica del Tango. Three years later they were summoned to join the cast of "Tango Argentino" by Héctor Orizolli and Claudio Segovia. With this show he made a debut at the Chatelet theatre in Paris and traveled through France, Italy, Canada and arrived at Broadway in 1985.

Carlos has been travelled to Japan every year since 1984, alternating Tango dance seminars with performances with artists Mariano Mores, Sexteto Tango, José Colángelo and Leopoldo Federico. In 1986 he staged and directed the first show formed exclusively by Japanese dancers, musicians and singers. In 1996, Carlos presented and directed with his partner María "Los Grandes del Tango Argentino", a show produced specially for Japan, with the appearance of Juan Carlos Copes, María Nieves, Nélida and Nelson, Mayoral and Elsa María, Carlos and Inés Borquez and the Color Tango Orchestra, among others.
The couple María and Carlos choreographed the films "Tango Bar" and "Naked Tango" and performed in both pictures.

He has held conferences in Japan, Italy, Spain and New Zealand.

Carlos is currently a professor at the Dramatic Arts Department of the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte.
He and his partner María are the patrons and founders of several clubs and Tango academies in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka
Carlos is member of the Academia Nacional del Tango.

Publications
In Argentina, they published the book "Así se baila el Tango Argentino" written by the couple and distinguished journalist and Tango researcher Yoyi Kanematz.

Jorge Nolasco actor (Vicente)

Study
He has been formed as an actor by Lito Cruz and Diana Alvarez. He studied singing with Mariano Moruja and Marcela Pietrovsky. He also has been trained in Musical Comedy Acting with the following teachers: Ricky Pashkus, Carlos Gianni and Mariano Moruja.

Artistic experience
He has participated in diferent television productions of Argentina since the year 1991, like: Ilusiones, Primicias, Campeones , Las chicas de enfrente, Verdad consequencia, Socios y más, Aprender a vivir, Pan caliente, Mujercita, Chiquititas, Videomach, Grande Pa, etc. In theatre he took part in the following producctons, like: Tus besos fueron mios (Betty Gambartes), El sol en la cara, Cuesta abajo, La casita de los viejos, El reñidero. Creativ Works: In the year 1993 he has been directing the TV-show El último tren in Channel 15 of Argentina. He worked like Stage Manager in La feria de las estrellas organized by the Teatro Gral.San Martin.

 
Guliana Rosetti dancer (the woman of the dancesalon)
 
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