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Eleonora Buratto - Mrs Alice Ford
Eleonora Buratto was born in Mantua, and made her operatic debut in the role
of Musetta in La Bohème in 2007, winning the competition “Adriano
Belli” in Spoleto.
She regularly appears in the world’s most prestigious opera houses and concert venues,
such as the Salzburg Festival debut in 2009 with the role of Creusa in Demofoonte by
Jommelli, reprising the role at Opéra Garnier and the Ravenna Festival, all under
the baton of Riccardo Muti. In 2011 she continued her collaboration with M° Muti
taking on the role of Susanna in the world premiere in modern times of I due
Figaro by Mercadante at the Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Salzburg
Festival and at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and then in 2012 with Amelia
in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and in 2013
with Norina in Don Pasquale at Teatro Real in Madrid and at Teatro
dell’Opera di Roma. In 2014 she starred again as Amelia on tour to Japan with
the Rome Opera. At the beginning of 2015 she was Corinna in the Dutch National Opera’s Il
Viaggio a Reims, directed by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Stefano
Montanari.
Lately she made two important debuts :Liù in Turandot at the Teatro
di San Carlo in Naples (March 2015), conducted by Juraj Valčuha and as Contessa
d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (May 2015)at the Rome Opera, in the famous Giorgio
Strehler production. She recently sang Mahler’s Symphony n.2 at the
Opera di Firenze under the baton of Daniele Gatti.
Other notable engagements include: Nannetta in Falstaff conducted
by Zubin Mehta at the Salzburg Festival, Adina in L’elisir d’amore at
Teatro Real di Madrid, Musetta in La Bohème at the Teatro
San Carlo in Naples, at the Montpellier Festival, and at the Teatro Regio in Turin
and on tour in Shangai under Gianandrea Noseda. She was Despina in Così fan
tutte at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and took on the role of Cleopatra
in Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Handel in Modena, with Accademia
Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone. She also took part in Ariadne auf Naxos conducted
by Daniel Harding at the Salzburg Festival.
Among her future engagements, it is worth mentioning her coming
debuts at the Teatro alla Scala as Adina in L’elisir d’amore and
at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Norina in Don Pasquale. Other
plans include Carmen in Madrid and Naples; La Bohème as
Mimì in Zurich, Barcelona and in Amsterdam and as Musetta in Chicago; Don Giovanni in
Aix-en-Provence; Le Nozze di Figaro in Amsterdam; Falstaff (cond.
Riccardo Muti)and Carmen in Chicago.
Highlights of her concert activity include Bach’s Mass in b minor as
well as Mozart’s Mass in c minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
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