Adriana Di Paola - mezzo

Winner of Santa Chiara Contest in Naples, she debuted at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, after that she was invited in Valencia where at the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia is starred in Le nozze di Figaro and Ariadne auf Naxos, Andrew Davis conducting. Ms Di Paola sang also Ninetta in I Vespri Siciliani at the Festival Verdi (2010) in Parma, where she also performed as Curra in La Forza del Destino under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. On the concert side she sang Die Schöpfung by Haydn at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek; Der Kronungsmesse with Omer Meir Wellber again in Valencia; Brahms’ Alto Raphsody and the Debussy’s Demoiselle élue in Cagliari; La Petite Messe Solennelle in Rome; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in San Sebastian. Last summer she took part at the Young Project Artists at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang in Der Zauberfloete, Carmen and Giulio Cesare and where she gained great success singing the closing recital of the Project. Ms. Di Paola recently starred in Gianni Schicchi with the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Rigoletto in Valencia, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Ravenna and Jerusalem. Adriana Di Paola had just made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos, Vladimir Jurowski conducting.

Plans include: Giulio Cesare (Cornelia) in Klagenfurt; I Vespri Siciliani (1861) at the Teatro Real de Madrid, James Conlon conducting; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Arnalta) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting and Bob Wilson directing.