Winner of the Concorso Internazionale di Canto Barocco "Francesco
Provenzale", Silvia Frigato regularly collaborates with conductors such as
Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Gianluca Capuano, Claudio Cavina, Ottavio
Dantone, Antonio Florio, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Philippe
Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken, Vaklav Luks, Stefano Montanari, Federico
Maria Sardelli and many others.
Engagements in past seasons include: Il Vespro della Beata Vergine
with Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists conducted by Gardiner;
L'Incoronazione di Poppea at La Scala and L'isola Disabitata
by Jommelli and by Haydn in Naples with Alessandrini and in Seville with
Onofri; Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Debussy's Pelleas et
Melisande at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Pergolesi's
Stabat Mater in Rome and Bilbao; La Serva Padrona at the
Purtimiro Festival in Lugo; the complete lieder by Anton Webern at the
Bologna Festival; De Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro at the
Teatro Regio in Parma and La Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo in
Prague and Dresden.
She is a regular guest at La Fenice in Venice, where she performed
Martinu's Mirandolina (title role), L'Incoronazione di Poppea;
La sonnambula (Lisa), Krenek's Cefalo e Procri, Pergolesi's
Stabat Mater, Mozart's Il Re Pastore, Valtinoni's Pinocchio,
Battistelli's Le Baruffe, Gluck's Orfeo e Euridice and
Haendel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.
She starred in the "Monteverdi 450" project of the Monteverdi Choir
conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, on tour in the world's most important
theatres, which was followed by: La Clemenza di Tito and a concert
on music by Debussy with Maestro Moretti at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, then repeated at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Haendel's Atalanta
(title role) at the Donau Festwochen; Stradella's Amare e Fingere
(concert and recording) with the Ensemble Mare Nostrum conducted by De
Carlo, with whom he also performed La Susanna in Warsaw, La
Forza dell'amor paterno (concert and recording), Il Trespolo
tutore (Ciro) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; the concert "Et
manchi pieta'" at the Europa Festival in Rome and at the Reggia di Caserta
with the Ensemble Arcadia and Anagoor; Handel's Messiah with the
Orchestra Toscanini conducted by Onofri; Haendel's Apollo and Daphne
in Helsinki with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra; Pelleas et Melisande in
Parma, Modena and Piacenza; L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Budapest,
Geneva and Vicenza; Bach's Oster-Oratorium and Bononcini's Stabat
Mater in Boston with Rinaldo Alessandrini and the Handel and Haydn
Society Orchestra; an all-Monteverdian programme with Gardiner on tour in
Italy; Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Staatsoper in Hannover,
"Polittico Monteverdiano" at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, San
Giovanni Battista (Erodiade figlia) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in
Genoa with Mare Nostrum; a 17th-century recital at the Sale Apollinee of
the Teatro La Fenicewith Ars Cantandi by Accademia Bizantina.
Upcoming engagements include: Alcina (Oberto) at the Teatro
dell'Opera in Rome; Bach's cantata Amor Vincitore in Stuttgart;
and Dixit Dominus by A. Vivaldi and Magnificat by J. S.
Bach for the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
She teaches Renaissance and baroque singing at the Santa Cecilia
Conservatory in Rome.
October 2024