Francesca Aspromonte - Maddalena

Born in 1991, Francesca Aspromonte is rapidly establishing herself as one of the most interesting young sopranos for the baroque and classical repertoire. 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), at the BBC Proms in London and in Versailles. 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 (title role) in Venice under Stefano Montanari; Dido and Aeneas (Belinda) at the Opera di Firenze under Stefano Montanari; “Amore Siciliano” at the Musikfest Bremen and at the Festival d’Ambronay with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón; 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 in Nepi; concerts and recording of Haydn’s Cantata “Solo et pensoso” with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini in Basel and at the Musikverein in Vienna. She participated in two editions of the Accademia Monteverdiana directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

After her great success in Luigi Rossi’s L’Orfeo with Raphaël Pichon in Nancy and Versailles, Francesca Aspromonte’s future plans include: “The seven deadly sins” (music by Claudio Monteverdi) with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (concerts and recording); Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Geneva Camerata and David Greilsammer in Geneva; Pasquini’s La sete di Christo with Concerto Romano and Alessandro Quarta at the Società del Quartetto in Milan; revivals of Amore Siciliano with Cappella Mediterranea in Rotterdam, Maguelone and Geneva; Donizetti’s Requiem at the St. Denis Festival with Garcia Alarcon; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Musikfest Bremen with L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar; revivals of Perez’s L’Isola disabitata in Lisbon with Divino Sospiro; Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Don Giovanni (Zerlina) in Nancy under the baton of Rani Calderon; revivals of Luigi Rossi’s L’Orfeo (Euridice) in Bordeaux and Caen; Francesco Cavalli’s Erismena (title role) in Aix-en-Provence and on tour in Europe with Garcia Alarcon. Ms. Aspromonte will star in solo recitals at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (in the frame of the Monteverdi Festival), in Nice with the Ensemble Baroque de Nice and Gilbert Bezzina; in Stockholm with I Turchini, in Castiglioncello del Trinoro and in Bruneck with Ensemble Cordia.