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Francesca Aspromonte - soprano
Born in 1991, Francesca Aspromonte is rapidly establishing herself as one of the
most interesting young sopranos for the baroque and classical repertoire. After
her studies in piano and harpsichord, she entered the singing class of Maria Pia
Piscitelli. She attended several master classes with Barbara Bonney, Luciana
Serra, Victor Torrez, Gloria Banditelli and she has just completed her studies
at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under the guidance of Boris Bakow. Since 2012 she
is a student of Renata Scotto’s Opera Studio at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia in Rome. Recently she starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Musica,
Speranza and Messaggiera) and Vespro della Beata Vergine with the
Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner on tour in the United States (New
York-Carnegie Hall, San Francisco, Washington, Costa Mesa, Chapel Hill) and at
the BBC Proms in London. Under John Eliot Gardiner she also starred in a
Monteverdi program at Wigmore Hall in London and in Versailles. Among her other
recent engagements: the modern premiere of Cavalli’s L’Eritrea and
Caldara’s Dafne (role title) in Venice under Stefano Montanari in Venice;
“Amore Siciliano” at the Musikfest Bremen and at the Festival d’Ambronay with
Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón; concerts at the Centro di
Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini with Stefano Demicheli; Scarlatti’s La
Giuditta (title role) at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Pasquini’s La
Gloria di Primavera at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, both with Concerto Romano
and Alessandro Quarta; L’isola disabitata by David Perez in Lisbon with
Divino Sospiro; Stradella’s Santa Editta (concert and recording) with
Andrea De Carlo and Ensemble Mare Nostrum at the Festival Stradella. She
participated in the first and second edition of the Accademia Monteverdiana
directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Plans include: a
new production of Rossi’s L’Orfeo (Euridice) with Raphaël Pichon at the
Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and on tour in France; “Amore Siciliano”
with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón in Brugge; revivals of
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespro della Beata Vergine with the
Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in Versailles; concerts and recording
of a Haydn program with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini; Cavalli’s Oristeo at
the Théâtre National de la Criée in Marseille; Le nozze di Figaro in
Wroclaw under Giovanni Antonini; Cavalli’s Erismena (title role)
at the Aix-en-Provence Festival; concerts with the Geneva Camerata and David
Greilsammer in Venice and Geneva.
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Silvia Frigato - soprano
Winner of the “Francesco Provenzale” International Baroque singing competition
in Naples (2007), she furthers her studies under the guidance of Sara Mingardo.
She regularly performs at numerous prestigious concert venues and festivals,
including: Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in
Milan, Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini in Naples, Festival della
Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Misteria Paschalia in Krakow, Festival de Radio
France in Montpellier, to name only a few. Ms. Frigato regularly collaborates
with such artists as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Gianluca Capuano,
Claudio Cavina, Ottavio Dantone, Antonio Florio, John Eliot Gardiner, Lorenzo
Ghielmi, Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken, Stefano Montanari, Federico
Maria Sardelli. Silvia Frigato
recently starred in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the
Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Rinaldo Alessandrini, in Jommelli’s L’Isola
Disabitata at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
After her debut at the Maggio Musicale in Florence with Gluck’s Orfeo ed
Euridice (2014) she returned as Yniold in Daniele Abbado’s new production
of Pélleas et Mélisande under the baton of Daniele Gatti (2015). Silvia
Frigato was chosen by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the first and the second
edition of Accademia Monteverdiana in Sarteano, performing in the opening
concert of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival. Ms. Frigato recently sang
the opening concert at the Trigonale Festival in Austria with La Risonanza and
Fabio Bonizzoni and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Venice.
Future plans: a
concert with music by Anton Webern at the Bologna Festival; Monteverdi’s
Vespro della Beata Vergine with Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi
on tour in France; Paisiello’s Fedra in Catania; Pergolesi’s Stabat
Mater with Sara Mingardo under Rinaldo Alessandrini in Rome at the Accademia
Filarmonica Romana and in Zamora; a revival of the Incoronazione di Poppea at
the Teatro alla Scala; concerts and recording of music by De Feo and Manna with
I Turchini.
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