Agostina
Smimmero graduated in Canto Lirico with highest honors at the
Conservatorio "S. Pietro a Majella" in Naples.
Winner
of several national and international opera contests, she won at the
“International Singing Competition Montserrat Caballè” (first Italian singer
awarded in the history of this contest). Furthermore: First Prize at the 2nd
International Contest “Simone Alaimo”; First Prize at the “Marcello
Giordani” Contest; finalist at the Opera Contest “Città di Bologna”; Special
Prize at the International Contest “Ravello Città della Musica”.
Her
repertoire includes already performed roles such as: Santuzza in Cavalleria
Rusticana conducted by S.
Alapont and directed by A. Cigni; Azucena in Il Trovatore, performed in the Saragozza Auditorium and at the
Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon; La Baronessa di Champigny in Nino
Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze at the Florence Opera conducted by A. Battistoni and
directed by A. Cigni; Maddalena in Rigoletto in Lisbon; Mercedes in Carmen at the Auditorium La Verdi in Milan, with A. Gazale
conducted by J. Bignamini; Fenena in Nabucco in
Teramo, Chieti, Jesi and Ancona; Berta
in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Benevento on tour with the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples.
She has
collaborated with directors such as: Andrea Cigni, Francesco Esposito,
Enrico Stinchelli, Lucas Simon, Stefano Vizioli, Nicola Zorzi;
and conductors as: Andrea Battistoni, Sergio Alapont, Martin Andrè,
Maurizio Benini, Jader Bignamini, Salvatore Caputo, Alessandro Fabrizi,
Antonino Fogliani, Juan Luis Martinez, Donato Renzetti, Ramon
Tebar. Active also in the concert side, she sang with Jaume Aragall,
Andrea Bocelli, Paata Burchuladze, Montserrat Caballé, Fiorenza Cedolins, Sergi
Giménez, Nicola Martinucci, Montserrat Marti, Joan Pons, Roberto Servile at the
Gala of the Voice at Teatro Dante Alighieri in Ravenna.
Most recently
she sang Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Madrid National Orchestra and in
Milan with I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra; Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria
Rusticana at Chiusi's Festival
Orizzonti in Tuscany, at the Massimo in Palermo, Matera and Bologna; Respighi’s
La Campana Sommersa in Cagliari; Nabucco in Las Palmas; took part in the production of Suor
Angelica at the Teatro di San
Carlo in Naples; Un ballo in maschera (Ulrica)at the Regio in Parma, at the San
Carlo in Naples, in Nantes, Rennes, Piacenza, Ravenna, Ferrara and Cagliari; Falstaff
(Quickly) in Cagliari; Il Trovatore (Azucena) in Oviedo; La
Gioconda (La Cieca) in
Barcellona, Piacenza, Modena and Reggio Emilia; gala concerts in
Barcelona and Brescia, Gianni Schicchi in Brescia, Pavia, Como, Cremona; Nabucco (Fenena) at the Regio in Turin; Cavalleria Rusticana, Petite Messe Solennelle in Verona; Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Salerno; La Gioconda in Toulouse.
Plans include: Rigoletto in Muscat; Cavalleria Rustica at the Teatro Regio in Turin and other important production in Italy and France.
November 2021