Francesca Aspromonte quickly established herself as one of the most interesting interpreters of the classical and baroque repertoire.

After studying the harpsichord, she was a pupil of Renata Scotto at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and graduated singing cum laude at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has performed on such stages as Carnegie Hall, Theatre de Champs Elysees, Opéra de Versailles, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Teatro La Fenice, Wiener Musikverein, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Teatro Real de Madrid working with John Eliot Gardiner, Ivor Bolton, Ottavio Dantone, Christophe Rousset, Diego Fasolis, Giovanni Antonini, Maxim Emelyanychev, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Raphaël Pichon, Enrico Onofri, Stefano Montanari, Alessandro Quarta, Gustavo Gimeno.
Her past engagements include the eponymous roles in Cavalli's Erismena at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Hasse's Semele at the Innsbrucker Festwochen, Caldara's Dafne in Venice, Caldara's La Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo with Vaclav Luks, Porpora's Jole at the Bremen Musikfest; then La Musica and Messaggiera in Monteverdi's Orfeo with Gardiner at the BBC Proms 2015; Euridice in Rossi's Orfeo with R. Pichon; Angelica in Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso with D. Fasolis; Almirena in Haendel's Rinaldo with Ottavio Dantone; Fidelio at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale; Rinaldo at La Fenice in Venice; Haydn's Lo Speziale in Eisenstadt; Dido and Aeneas in Palermo; plus numerous solo recitals with sacred, operatic and lieder repertoire.
Recently, she performed a series of concerts with a programme dedicated to Handel conducted by Laurence Equilbey and the Insula Orchestra at the Seine Musicale in Paris and the Pasua Festival in Aix-en-Provence and Boccherini's Stabat Mater conducted by Enrico Onofri in Clermont Ferrand.
Acclaimed in Vivaldi's L'Orlando Furioso at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, her engagements in the coming months include Corselli's Achille in Sciro at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Li Zite 'ngalera for her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Festival de Beaune and a series of Baroque concerts in Malta for the Valletta Baroque Festival.
Francesca has made recordings for Alpha Classics, Outhere, Ricercare, Christophorus, HDB Sonus and the CD of Händel's Serse for Deutsche Grammophon with Il Pomo d'oro and M. Emelyanychev where she performs Atalanta, won the International Classical Music Awards 2020 as best opera recording. Francesca has an exclusive record deal with Pentatone. Her debut album "Prologue" (an anthology of opera prologues from Monteverdi to Scarlatti) with Il Pomo d'oro directed by Enrico Onofri, was critically acclaimed worldwide; her second album with "Maria&Maddalena" with Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti was recently released Since 2019, he has been teaching interpretation of the Italian Baroque repertoire at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

October 2022