Adriana Di Paola – mezzo

Winner of Santa Chiara Contest in Naples, she made her debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Il viaggio a Reims) and at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto (Amelia al Ballo). After that she was invited in Valencia where at the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia she performed Le nozze di Figaro (Marcellina) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Driade), Andrew Davis conducting. Ms. Di Paola sang also in I Vespri Siciliani at the Festival Verdi (2010) in Parma, where she also performed in La Forza del Destino under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti and then Rigoletto in Valencia. On the concert side she sang Die Schöpfung by Haydn at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek; Der Krönungsmesse with Omer Meir Wellber again in Valencia; Brahms’ Alto Raphsody and the Debussy’s Demoiselle élue in Cagliari; Petite Messe Solennelle in Rome; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in San Sebastian; Pergolesi’sStabat Mater in Ravenna and Jerusalem. She took part at the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang in Die Zauberflöte, 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 where she returned singing Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater accompanied at the piano by Antonio Pappano, who chose her also for an extraordinary event on Brahms’ music at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Adriana Di Paola made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos, Vladimir Jurowski conducting, as Cornelia in Giulio Cesare in Egitto in Klagenfurt and more recently Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Monte- Carlo.

Future plans: I Vespri Siciliani (1861) at the Teatro Real de Madrid, James Conlon conducting; Die Zauberflöte and Rota’s Mysterium in Bari; Dido and Aeneas at the Opera in Florence; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Arnalta) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting and Bob Wilson directing.