We are pleased to welcome soprano Valentina Farcas to the roster of Neil Funkhouser Artists Management. Miss Farcas recently scored a sensation as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.Her performances of Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival and Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montechi at the Ravenna Festival have been released on DVD.
She has appeared with such notable conductors as Riccardo Muti (at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Bruno Bartoletti, Bruno Aprea, Jan Latham-Koenig, Marco Guidarini, Donato Renzetti, Riccardo Frizza, Kiril Petrenko, Ivor Bolton, Gerd Albrecht and Thomas Hengelbrock.
Future engagements include Zerbinetta in Bilbao in October, 2008, Adele in Die Fledermaus with the Netherlands Opera in November and December, 2008, her debut with the Dallas Opera as Musetta in La bohème in February, 2009, Jenny in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in Toulouse, Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Amsterdam, and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Gran Teatre del Liceu and "Il ritorno di Tobia" with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Fabio Biondi.
