Virginia Tola – Abigaille

Winner of the Operalia Prize in Barcelona Mrs Tola began a career that brought her to important theaters such as: Colòn in Buenos Aires, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Teatro Real in Madrid, Washington National Opera, Opéra in Monte Carlo, Arena in Verona, La Monnaie in Brussels, Los Angeles Opéra, Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome, Regio in Turin and the opera houses in Klagenfurt, La Plata and Santa Fe. After her successes as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Contessa d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Violetta in Traviata, Desdemona in Otello, Luisa Miller (title role) and Mimì in La Bohème, she has recently added new roles to her repertoire singing Lina in Stiffelio, Abigaille in Nabucco, Nedda in Pagliacci, Amelia in Un ballo in Maschera. Mrs Tola lately sang Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Desdemona in Otello in Modena and Piacenza and Lina in Stiffelio in Monte-Carlo. Besides her opera appearances, Ms. Tola usually performs in concerts all over the world. Many of her worldwide performances include massive opera and zarzuela concerts with Placido Domingo, in venues that had included cities such as Moscow, Quebec, Baden-Baden, Shanghai, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Barcelona, Halle, Mexico City, Benidorm, Taipei, Granada, Lisbon, San Antonio, Chengdu, Astana, Caracas, La Romana, Zacatecas, Tampico, Trondheim, Sonderborg and Guadalajara, among others. Ms. Tola’s discography includes Ginastera’s Don Rodrigo and Milena and Bacalov’s Triple Concerto on Delos International.

Among her future plans it is worth mentioning Un Ballo in Maschera in Buenos Aires, Don Giovanni in Oviedo and a series of lyric concerts beside Placido Domingo in Japan.