Carmen Giannattasio studied singing at the Avellino Conservatory, specialising later at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 2002 she won the prestigious Operalia in Paris, making her debut as Desdemona (Otello) at the Los Angeles Opera. From then on, she began a brilliant career that took her to the most important stages: Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Bavarian State Opera, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, as well as the opera houses of San Francisco, Vienna, Madrid, Berlin, Brussels, Turin, Venice, Naples, Amsterdam, Hamburg and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

She regularly collaborates with maestros such as Paolo Arrivabeni, Maurizio Benini, James Conlon, Myung-Whun Chung , Diego Matheuz, Zubin Mehta, Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniele Rustioni, Pinchas Steinberg and Omer Meir Wellber.

Carmen Giannattasio was chosen by Opera Rara - a record label specialising in the publication of rarely performed operas - for important bel canto recordings such as Rossini's La donna del lago, Donizetti's Parisina and Rossini's Ermione, a performance that won her the praise of leading critics worldwide and the prestigious Gramophone Opera Award 2011.  Her recordings with the British label also include Bellini's Il Pirata (2010) and Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro (2011).

With a repertoire that mainly includes the operas of composers such as Donizetti, Verdi Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Mascagni, in the 2020/21 season Carmen Giannattasio was a guest at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni/Traumdämmerung (from an idea by Johannes Erath), which was followed by Tosca at the Sydney Opera and Alice Ford in a new production of Falstaff in Aix-en-Provence. Highlights of the 2021/22 season include the opening of the Wiener Staatsoper's season with Tosca, a role she also performed at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata and the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Falstaff at the Lyon Opera and La Wally in Munich.

Future engagements will take the artist again to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has been invited to sing Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), and the eponymous roles of La Gioconda and Tosca. Other projects include Eugene Onegin at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Aida in Oviedo and a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York. After singing Tosca at the Comunale in Bologna and on tour in Wiesbaden, she will sing it again in Rome (Caracalla), Albuquerque and Naples in the coming seasons. She will also be engaged in the dittio Tabarro/ Le Villi in Las Palmas.

Carmen Giannattasio has been chosen as brand ambassador for the Bulgari brand and is dressed by designer Antonio Riva. She is also an ambassador for perfume brand Carthusia and Swiss skincare brand La Prairie.

In February 2017, Carmen Giannattasio was awarded the title of Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella della Repubblica Italiana.

May 2024