Born
in 1988, one of most talented sopranos of her generation, Anna Maria Sarra
attended the training courses at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in
Rome with Renato Scotto, at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto
Zedda and at the Scuola dell’Opera Italiana in Bologna. She
also was a member of Junges Ensemble at the Theater an Der Wien (2012/13
season).
A winner of several vocal competitions, including
the International Lyric Contest AsLiCo (Como), she also attended masterclasses held
by Claudio Desderi, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Luciana Serra, Raul Gimenez, Bruno
Bartoletti, Francisco Araiza and Sonia Prina.
Despite her young age, she has already sung in some
of the most prestigious theaters in the world, including Theater an der Wien, Teatro
Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Aix- en- Provence Festival, Teatro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino in Florence, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples,
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Teatro Massimo in
Palermo.
She worked with such conductors as Michele Mariotti,
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Micheal Guttler, Marco Angius, Ottavio Dantone and
stage directors as Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Damiano Michieletto, Henning
Brockhaus and Emma Dante.
During
the past seasons she sang: Berenice in Rossini's L'Occasione fa il ladro
in Savona and Lisboa; in Bologna, at the Teatro Comunale, she performed Elvira
in L'italiana in Algeri and also Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
and Salve Regina, and Bach's Matthaus Passion; Mendelssohn's Elias in
Verona (Teatro Filarmonico); Elena and Anaide in Il Cappello di paglia
di Firenze for the Aslico tour and in Florence Teatro dell'Opera;
Drusilla in L'incoronazione di Poppea in the Innsbrucker Festwochen
der Alten Musik; Giulia in La scala di seta at the
Aix-en-Provence Festival; Margret in R. Strauss' Feuersnot and Zerlina
in Don Giovanni in Palermo at the Teatro Massimo.
Recently
she performed: L’elisir d’amore (Adina) at the Teatro Carlo
Felice in Genoa; Quatre Chansons Françaises by Britten and Die
Zauberflöte (Pamina) at La Fenice in Venice; Adam's Le Toréador (Caroline)
and Un ballo in maschera (Oscar) at the Teatro Massimo in
Palermo; La bohème (Musetta) at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples and at the Teatro Municipal de Sao Paolo; Die Bassariden (Autonoe)
at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and The Merry Widow (Valencienne)
in Naples. She also made her Opéra de Touloun’s debut with The
Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill; afterwards she was at the Teatro
Regio in Turin singing Carmen (Frasquita); A Midsummer
night’s dream (Tytania) at the Theaters of Como, Bergamo, Pavia,
Brescia, Reggio Emilia and Cremona; Un ballo in Maschera (Oscar)
at the Opéra de Toulon and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Musica/ Euridice
in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Rinaldo
(Armida) in Cremona and on tour (Ottavio Dantone conducting); L’elisir
d’amore in Florence (Palazzo Pitti) and in Fermo; Auber’s Frà
Diavolo in Rome and Palermo; Guillaume Tell and Don
Pasquale in Palermo; Il cappello di paglia di Firenze in Naples;
Mozart's Requiem in Toulon.
Among
her future plans: Euridice in Porpora’s Orfeo under George Petrou in
Martina Franca (Festival della Valle d’Itria) and Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio
at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.
April
2019