Francesca Tiburzi was born in Bergamo where she began her lyrical singing studies at the age of fourteen. In 2005, she attended courses in early music at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, performing music from the sacred repertoire of Palestrina, Cavalli, Rossi, Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart. She then specialized in French vocal music with Francois Ogéas, in German Lieder with Mary Lindsey, vocal technique and interpretation with Rosanna Lippi, in- depth seminars on the physiology of the singing voice held by Franco Fussi, and master's courses in advanced artistic training with Katia Ricciarelli, Francesca Patané, Mariella Devia, Aprile Millo, and Yva Barthelemy. In July 2011, she obtained her academic diploma at the Donizetti Higher Institute of Music Studies with top marks and honour. After her diploma, she continued to deepen her study and singing technique following the Barthelemy method with Professor Giuseppina Cortesi. She is currently continuing her advanced training with Mariella Devia and Silvia Silveri.

She is the overall winner of the Salice d'Oro competition (2015), and has gone on to win prestigious competitions including: Etta Limiti international opera competition (2015) second prize; Rosa Ponselle international opera competition (2011) second prize; IV international opera competition Marcello Giordani, third prize; international opera competition Marcella Pobbe (2014) first prize; opera competition Lina Bertasi Aimaro (2009) first prize; she won the study prize 18th edition of the Rotary Club Bergamo Città Alta (2012) as best student of the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali G.Donizetti.

She made her debut in 2013 playing Violetta Valery in La Traviata, followed by important engagements: Tosca (title role) at Opera in Rome, Teatro del Maggio in Florence, Semperoper in Dresden, Lirico in Cagliari, and in Trieste, Udine, Pordenone, San Carlo in Naples and in Jesi; Anna Bolena, La Straniera and Il Pirata at Bellini in Catania; Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Metz Opera where she later returned for Pagliacci, Tabarro, Tosca and Madama Butterfly; La Campana Sommersa and Palla De Mozzi at the Lirico di Cagliari; Pia de Tolomei (Pia) at the Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, at the Goldoni di Livorno, at the Verdi di Pisa; Manon Lescaut (title role) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, where she also took part in the production of Aida (Priestess) for the 2018 Areniana season; Mala Vita (Cristina) at the Wexford Festival Opera, Aida (title role) at the Aspendos Opera festival (Turkey) and at the Prague State Opera; Tabarro at the Aalto Theatre in Essen; and she took part in the production of La Gioconda at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in Catania; Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Metz, Essen, Canada and Cosenza; La Forza del destino in Bologna; Puccini's Trittico at the Taormina Festival; Tosca in Rovigo, Fano, the Grange Festival in London and Metz.

Also active on the concert side, she performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Sassari and at the Teatro Antico in Taormina, the Petite Messe Solennelle at the Filarmonico in Verona, D. Shostakovich's 16th Symphony with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto at the Teatro Verdi in Padua and a series of opera concerts in Taormina.

Upcoming engagements include: Tosca in Copenhagen and La Gioconda in Budapest.

February 2025