Born in Naples in 1996, Valentina Pernozzoli graduated in 2024 at the Conservatorio ‘San Pietro a Majella’ in Naples with Maestro Chiara Artiano. Since 2022, she has been perfecting with the DaltroCanto method of Italian soprano Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi, with whom she still studies.

In 2022, she was selected as an effective student at the Accademia Pucciniana in Torre del Lago, where she took part in productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and La Rondine.

In 2023, she was Zia Principessa in Puccini's Suor Angelica at the ‘Festival di Mezza Estate’ in Tagliacozzo in collaboration with the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento Vocale Adalo.

Winner for the same role in the competition ‘Cantiere All'Opera’ in Padua, in 2024 she made her debut as Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Teatri Kombetari Operas Baletit in Tirana under M° Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli and attended the Mascagni Academy at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno.

Winner of the second edition of the competition ‘Cuore D'Oro’, with the moral patronage of the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation by Nicoletta Mantovani, in the summer of 2024 she also made her debut in the role of Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni and in the role of Zita in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini at the ‘Festival di Mezza Estate’ in Tagliacozzo in collaboration with the Adalo Vocal High Perfectioning Academy.

In September of the same year, she sang in the diptych Cavelleria Rusticana by Mascagni and Gianni Schicchi by Puccini in the roles of Mamma Lucia and Zita conducted by Giandomenico Vaccari, and in October again at the Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce.

Recent engagements include: her debut at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the role of Zita in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini under the baton of Maestro Francesco Lanzillotta; Perosi's Il Giudizio Universale at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari under the baton of Maestro Maurizio Benini; and Falstaff at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno.

Upcoming engagements include: Falstaff (Quickly) at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Il Trovatore (Azucena) at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona and La Sonnambula (Teresa) in concert form at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.