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