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,
Carmen Giannattasio has recently been a guest at the Teatro Massimo in
Palermo in Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni/Traumdämmerung (based on an
idea by Johannes Erath); at the Sydney Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper and
in Bologna, Wiesbaden and Rome (Caracalla) in Tosca; in
Aix-en-Provence and Lyon as Alice Ford in a new production of Falstaff;
in Munich for La Wally; at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where
she was invited to sing Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), and the title
roles of La Gioconda and Tosca; at the Teatro Massimo
in Palermo in Eugene Onegin and at the Carnegie Hall in New
York for a series of concerts.
Future engagements include, among the others: Tosca in
Hamburg, Albuquerque and Naples; Aida in Oviedo; La
Fanciulla del West in Bologna and the diptych 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.
August 2024