Soprano Lavinia Bini graduated in singing with honor from the
Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence and she won the Renata Tebaldi
International Competition in San Marino.
Lavinia Bini made her debut as Despina in Così Fan Tutte at the
Eurofestival in Rome and participated in the production of Il Barbiere
di Siviglia in Fermo, directed by Damiano Michieletto.
Prestigious engagements followed: Serpina in La Serva Padrona
and Livietta in Livietta e Tracollo in Bologna and Martina Franca;
Zerbine in the world’s premiere in modern times of Pergolesi’s Servante
Maitresse at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi (Juliette
Deschamps directing); Elena in Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze
and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino in Florence (Sergio Alapont conducting and Andrea Cigni
directing); Donna/ Sirena in Händel’s Rinaldo in Ravenna, Reggio
Emilia and Ferrara (Ottavio Dantone conducting and Pierluigi Pizzi
directing); Mercadante’s I Due Figaro at the Teatro Colòn in
Buenos Aires (Riccardo Muti conducting and Emilio Sagi directing); Elvira
in L’Italiana in Algeri in Bari in the production signed by
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; Adina in L’Elisir d’amore for the As.Li.Co
circuit in Italy (Brescia, Cremona, Como, Pavia and Trento); Carolina in Il
Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa in Ravenna and in Lucca, Julian
Kovatchev conducting; Valencienne in Die Lustige Witwe in Verona;
Don Giovanni as Zerlina at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Donna Anna
in Don Giovanni at the Salzburger Landestheater.
Other recent engagements include: Gilda in Rigoletto in Liège;
Rosetta in Tutino's La Ciociara in Cagliari; Don Pasquale
in Cagliari and in Tokyo; Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi in Modena,
Como and Cremona; Viclinda in I Lombardi alla prima crociata,
conducted by Michele Mariotti and Adina in L'Elisir d'amore at
the Regio di Torino, at the Comunale di Bologna and at the Maggio Musicale
in Florence (Cavea); Elvira in L'italiana in Algeri at the Théâtre
des Champs-Élysées with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Zerlina in Don
Giovanni staged at the Comunale di Bologna, the Sferisterio di
Macerata and the Arena di Verona where she returned to perform Carmen,
while at the Teatro Filarmonico she was the protagonist of Il segreto
di Susanna and La voix humaine; the world premiere of
Battistelli's 7 Minuti in Nancy; Vinci's L'ammalato
immaginario at the Martina Franca Festival; Carmen at the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Casanova and Albertolli with the
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at La
Scala in Milan and in Muscat; La Bohème in Trieste, Haifa and Tel
Aviv; Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Massimo in Palermo; Petite
Messe Solennelle in Taranto and Così fan tutte in Muscat; La
Boheme with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Il Barbiere di
Siviglia in Muscat; Mozart's Requiem in Gorizia; Le
Maschere in Wexford; Idomeneo in Stuttgart; and Puccini's Trittico
at the Opéra National de Paris.
Among the engagements for the 2025–26 season are: Così fan tutte
at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; L’elisir d’amore at the
Teatro Comunale in Bolzano; her debut in Falstaff at the Teatro
Petruzzelli in Bari; and Un ballo in maschera at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino.
August 2025