Francesca Maria Cucuzza was born in Palermo in 1995. She approached music
at the age of eight, studying piano at the “Bellini” Conservatory in her
city. She then moved to Modena, where she began studying singing at the
“Vecchi- Tonelli” Conservatory with Tiziana Tramonti.
Under the guidance of Cinzia Forte, she graduated with honours from the
“Girolamo Frescobaldi” Conservatory in Ferrara.
In 2016, she won the international opera competition “Città di Ferrara”
and debuted the role of Ines in Il Trovatore; she was also awarded
the “Daniele Barioni” prize for the youngest performer. She distinguished
herself in other international singing competitions: second prize at the
"Magda Olivero" in 2019; the scholarship and advanced training course for
the role of Adalgisa in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma at the “Toti dal
Monte” in Treviso; first prize in the "emerging voices" category at the
“Fausto Ricci” international opera competition; first prize at the “Gli
amici di Irina” competition at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara.
She was selected by "Europa in Canto" and made her debut at the Teatro
San Carlo in Naples in the roles of the Second Lady and Papagena in Die
Zauberfloete, with performances at the Teatro Comunale Mario del
Monaco in Treviso, Teatro Comunale in Rovigo and at the Teatro Argentina
in Rome. She was Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro
Comunale in Modena and as the winner of the 2018 “Toti Dal Monte”
Competitino, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro on stage at the
Teatro Comunale in Treviso, and then on tour in Jesi and Ferrara. She also
sang as Giovanna in Rigoletto in Busseto and participated in the
production of Traviata for the AsLiCo circuit in the role of
Annina.
She made her debut in the role of Contessa d'Almaviva in Le nozze di
Figaro in Bologna with the Orchestra Senzaspine and at the Teatro
Real in Madrid in concert singing a selection of excerpts from Die
Zauberfloete (Pamina) and as Maddalena in Il Viaggio a Reims
in Valencia, then under the baton of Zubin Mehta sang Mozart's Kronungsmesse
at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where she returned for
Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton). She recently made her debut in
the role of Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni conducted by
Angelo Gabrielli in Diano Marina and Carpi, a role she then reprised in
Bologna at the Teatro Duse with the orchestra Senza Spine and in Livorno
and Lucca under the baton of Alessandro Cadario, while at the Teatro
Comunale di Bologna she sang as Marianna in Il Signor Bruschino.
Recent engagements include: Così fan tutte in Vicenza, Jesi,
Pisa, Modena, Metz (as Despina), and Matera (as Dorabella); Ponchielli’s Il
Parlatore eterno (Aspasia) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Il
Turco in Italia (Zaida) in Rovigo, Ravenna, Jesi, Rimini, and Pisa;
and Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola) in Modena, Piacenza, and Rimini.
Among the engagements for the 2025-26 season: Il Trovatore at the
Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
August 2025