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Francesca Aspromonte - Soprano
Francesca Aspromonte was born in 1991. After her studies in piano and
harpsichord, she entered the singing class of Maria Pia Piscitelli. She attended
several master classes with Barbara Bonney, Luciana Serra, Victor Torrez, Gloria
Banditelli and she has just completed her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg
under the guidance of Boris Bakow. Since 2012 she is a student of Renata
Scotto’s Opera Studio at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She
already sang in such venues as Opéra de Vichy, Parco della Musica (Rome), Bozar
de Bruxelles, Opéra National de Montpellier, Opéra Royal de Versailles and
appeared in renowned festivals such as Ambronay Festival, Frescobaldi Festival,
Aix-en-Provence Festival, Musikfest Bremen. She collaborates with several
ensembles specialized in the Baroque repertoire such as Leonardo García
Alarcón’s Cappella Mediterranea and Alessandro Quarta’s Concerto Romano. Under
Garcia Alarcón she performed the roles of La Musica in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo,
Rad in Falvetti’s Il Diluvio Universale and Erginda, Giunone and Castore
in Cavalli’s Elena. Recently she sang Maria Vergine in Pasquini’s La
sete di Christo, under the baton of Alessandro Quarta;
the modern premiere of Cavalli’s L’Eritrea in Venice conducted by Stefano
Montanari and directed by Olivier Lexa (Teatro La Fenice production); “Amore
Siciliano” at the Musikfest Bremen and at the Festival d’Ambronay with Cappella
Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón; Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata (Amital)
in Merano and Brixen with Daniel Bayer and the Streicherakademie Bozen; concerts
at the Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini with Stefano Demicheli;
Scarlatti’s La Giuditta (title role) at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana
with Concerto Romano and Alessandro Quarta. She participated in the first
edition of the Accademia Monteverdiana directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Future plans include: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Musica and Speranza) and Vespro
della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner on
tour in the United States (New York, San Francisco, Washington, Costa Mesa,
Chapel Hill) and then in London (BBC Proms) and Versailles; Dido and Aeneas (Belinda)
at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Stefano Montanari; L’isola
disabitata by David Perez in Lisbon with Divino Sospiro; a new production of
Rossi’s L’Orfeo (Euridice) with Raphaël Pichon at the Opéra National de
Lorraine in Nancy and on tour in France; a concert with the Geneva Camerata and
David Greilsammer at the Venice Center for Baroque Music.
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