Daniela Schillaci
Soprano
Graduated in singing from the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with top marks, she won the Giuseppe Di Stefano competition in Trapani in 1998 as the best young singer.
She immediately began a brilliant career that saw her debut in Così fan tutte (Despina) at the Opera Giocosa in Savona; Werther (Sophie) in Spoleto; Un ballo in maschera (Oscar) in Venice and Catania; La sonnambula (Lisa) in Rome, Messina and Palermo; Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (Elena) in Messina and at the Opéra de Lausanne; Turandot (Liù) in Seoul; I Lombardi alla prima crociata at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Ariane et Barbe-bleu, Thaïs and Peter Grimes in Turin, Elektra and Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Il telefono di Menotti in Catania; Carmen at the Rome Opera, the Arena di Verona and Ascoli Piceno; La serva padrona in Florence and Rome.

As the years went by, she tackled an increasingly demanding repertoire: La vedova allegra, in the roles of Valencienne at the Filarmonico in Verona and Hanna Glawari at the Regio in Turin, at the Teatro Verdi in Padua, in Bassano del Grappa and in Rovigo; Stiffelio (Lina) in Catania; Falstaff (Alice) in Lisbon and Shanghai, on the occasion of the opera's debut in China; La Bohème (Mimì and Musetta) at the Opera in Rome, Florence, Trieste, Messina, Venice, Bari, Düsseldorf, Essen, Ekaterinburg, Catania; Pagliacci in Krasnojarsk, Catania and Shanghai; La Traviata (Violetta) in Messina, Trapani, Catania, Palermo, Ekaterinburg, Lisbon, Shanghai; Norma (Norma) in Catania, Taormina, Cagliari, Seville, Rovigo and Naples; Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) in Ekaterinburg, Turin and at the Arena in Verona, directed by Franco Zeffirelli; Aida in Almatá and at the Teatro Antico in Taormina.

She has collaborated with renowned conductors such as: Roberto Abbado, Gianpaolo Bisanti, Roberto Gianola, Julian Kovatchev, Nello Santi, Antonio Pirolli, Alain Lombard, Fabio Mastrangelo, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Plácido Domingo, Seiji Ozawa, Yutaka Sado and with directors such as Robert Carsen, Paul Curran, Willy Decker, Hugo De Ana, Francesco Esposito, Yannis Kokkos, Stefano Poda, Franco Zeffirelli. He recorded Paisiello's Il Socrate immaginario for Bongiovanni.

She performs intensively in concerts, including the gala evening 'La corona di pietra' at the Arena di Verona alongside Plácido Domingo. She also took part in several galas at the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg and in the prestigious Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, conducted by Fabio Mastrangelo.

Among the productions of recent seasons are: Il Trovatore, Macbeth, Attila and Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Bellini's La straniera (Alaide), La Traviata, Carmen, Pagliacci in Catania; Madama Butterfly, La forza del Destino, Nabucco, Aida, I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Giselda), Un ballo in maschera at the National Theatre in Split; Norma in Rennes; Nabucco at the Arena di Verona (conducted by Daniel Oren); Madama Butterfly in Modena; Un ballo in maschera in Reggio Emilia; Macbeth at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (conducted by Marco Armiliato); Carmen at the Arena di Verona; La Traviata and Turandot in Catania.

His future engagements include: Macbeth at the Comunale in Bologna and in Prague; Stiffelio at the Filarmonico in Verona.

April 2024