Marco Vinco is an Italian bass-baritone. A principal interpreter of Rossini and Mozart roles at international theaters and festivals including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra National in Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Staatsoper in Vienna, the Salzburg Festival, the San Francisco Opera, the New National Theater in Tokyo, and, in Italy, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and the Fondazione Arena di Verona. Since October 2016 he has been President of the Accademia Salieri in Legnago, and since December 2018 he has been Director of the National Artistic Pole – Verona Accademia per l’Opera Italiana, established in 2008 on the initiative of MIUR-AFAM.

Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, university professor, is director of Palazzo Madama in Turin and president of the Ateneo di Scienze Lettere ed Arti in Bergamo. A former member of the Superior Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Ministry of Culture (2019-2022), he was honorary director of the Civic Museums of Vicenza (2015-2018) and for the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome he curated the exhibitions Antonello da Messina (2006), Giovanni Bellini (2008), Lorenzo Lotto (2011), Tintoretto (2012) and Titian (2013), as well as numerous exhibition projects in Italy and abroad. He is the author of more than three hundred publications and important monographs. His popular appearances related to the national artistic heritage on major Italian and foreign radio and television channels are numerous.