Mariangela Sicilia - Adina

One of the most up-and-coming Italian sopranos of her generation, she won the Tito Schipa lyric contest in Lecce, for L’Elisir d’amore. Mariangela Sicilia was lately appreciated as Vivetta in Cilea’s L’Arlesiana both at the Wexford Festival Opera and at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi for the opening night of the season. Ms Sicilia also performed Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; L’Italiana in Algeri and La Donna del Lago and Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Orfeo ed Euridice in New York; L’Elisir d’Amore in Madrid; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Ravenna and Tel Aviv (broadcast by the Italian National Television); La Pietra del Paragone in Paris, Jean Christophe Spinosi conducting.

Future plans: L’Elisir d’Amore in Brussels; La Bohème (Musetta) and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Opéra National de Paris; Guillaume Tell at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Battistelli’s Il Medico dei Pazzi (world première) in Nancy; Petite Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Alberto Zedda.