Francesca Aspromonte rapidly established herself as one of
the most
interesting sopranos in the baroque and classical repertoire. After her
studies
in piano and harpsichord, she completed her opera singing studies with
distinction
at the Mozarteum Salzburg under the guidance of Boris Bakow. She has
been one
of Renata Scotto’s students at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Francesca has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall,
Teatro La
Fenice, Theatre de Champs Elysees, Grand Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory,
Zaryadye Hall, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican
Centre,
Wigmore Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Theatre an der Wien, Wiener
Konzerthaus,
Fundaçao Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Teatro Real de Madrid.
She sang with renowned conductors such as Zubin Metha John
Eliot
Gardiner, Ivor Bolton, Christophe Rousset, Diego Fasolis, Ottavio
Dantone,
Giovanni Antonini, Maxim Emelyanichev, Enrico Onofri, Leonardo García
Alarcón,
Raphaël Pichon, Stefano Montanari, Alessandro Quarta, Gustavo Gimeno.
Among her past engagements, it’s worth mentioning: the title
role in
Cavalli’s Erismena at the
Festival
d’Aix en Provence; the title role in Hasse’s Semele at the Innsbrucker Festwochen; Almirena in Rinaldo
with Accademia Bizantina;
Euridice in Luigi Rossi’s L’Orfeo
with Pygmalion; the title role in Caldara’s Dafne
in Teatro la Fenice; Deidamia in Corselli’s Achille
in
Sciro at Teatro Real de Madrid with Ivor Bolton; Angelica in
Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso at
Teatro La Fenice; La
Musica and Messaggiera in Monteverdi’s Orfeo
at the 2015 BBC Proms; the title role in Caldara’s La Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo in Prague with Collegium 1704; the
title role in Porpora’s Iole
at the
Bremen Musikfest; the title role in Haendel's Acis&Galatea in Moscow, Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio
with Zubin Metha in Florence,
plus numerous recitals dedicated to sacred, operatic or chamber music
repertoire.
Most recently she sang as Deidamia in Achille in Sciro (Corselli) at the Teatro Real de Madrid; Carlo
Cemino in Le zite’n galera
(Vinci)
for her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Poppea in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Beaune Festival.
Future plans include: Mozart’s Davidde
Penitente with the RTVE Spanish Symphony Orchestra in Madrid; Orfeo ed Euridice at the Palau
de les
Arts de Valencia; Dido and Aeneas
at
the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Francesca recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony DHM, Alpha
Classics,
Christophorus, Harmonia Mundi, Ricercare, HDB Sonus.
She signed an exclusive recording engagement with Pentatone
Music. Her
debut album “Prologue” (a selection of 17th-century operatic prologues,
from
Monteverdi to Scarlatti) with Il Pomo d’oro ensemble and Enrico Onofri,
has
been worldwide critically acclaimed.
Released in November 2021, her second album for Pentatone
"Maria&Maddalena" portrays the Two Maries through early
18th-century oratorios by Bononcini, Scarlatti, Haendel, Lulier, and
others,
together with violinist Boris Begelman and I Barocchisti under the baton
of
Diego Fasolis.
Since 2019 Francesca teaches interpretation of the Italian
baroque
repertoire at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.