Rachele Stanisci - Abigaille

Winner of the Maria Caniglia Prize and As.Li.Co international contest, Rachele Stanisci starred in La Bohème (Mimì and Musetta) and Il Turco in Italia (Fiorilla) on tour in Italy. In the following seasons she was regular guest in theaters such as : Opera Royale de La Monnaie in Brussels; Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Dresden Semperoper, Festival in Wiesbaden, Opéra de Montpellier, La Fenice in Venice, Opera in Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Teatro Regio in Turin.
Amongst her recent engagements it is worth mentioning: Luisa Miller (Luisa) in Sassari (dvd edited by Bongiovanni); Suor Angelica, Manon Lescaut, Turandot and La Bohème in Palermo; Marin Faliero (Elena) at the Festival Donizetti in Bergamo (cd and dvd by Dynamic); Don Carlos (Elisabetta, five acts version) at the Hamburgische Staatsoper; Norma in Bilbao and in Beijing; Il Trovatore in Las Palmas, Lisbon and Trieste; Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) at the Festival in Avenches; Francesca da Rimini at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, Daniel Oren conducting; Les vêpres siciliennes (Hèléne) at the San Carlo in Naples under Gianluigi Gelmetti and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London under Antonio Pappano; Beatrice di Tenda in Catania, Henning Brockhaus directing; world's première of Marco Betta's Natura Viva (Beatrice) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Manon Lescaut in Athens; Macbeth at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Gala concert at the Liceu in Barcelona; Un ballo in maschera and Verdi's Requiem in Trieste (under Gianluigi Gelmetti); Anna Bolena in Catania; Nabucco in Lima; Un ballo in maschera in Tel Aviv under Zubin Mehta; Aida (title role) in Pisa. In Verona she performed Turandot (Arena) and Iris and Attila (Teatro Filarmonico).
Plans include: Les vêpres siciliennes (Hélène) at the Covent Garden in London under the baton of Antonio Pappano; Falstaff (Alice) in Beijin; Verdi's Requiem in Lisbon; revivals of Aida in Livorno.