Margherita Maria Sala
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Margherita Maria Sala is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Lavinia in this new production of Agostino Steffani's Amor vien dal destino, which is followed by her debut at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, singing the title role in Vivaldi's Ottone in villa. Other projects during the 2025/26 season include concerts with Giulio Prandi marking the 300th anniversary of Scarlatti's death at places including the Ambronay Festival and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and her return to the Berlin Academy for Early Music to sing Marc’Antonio in Hasse's Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra. Engagements since 2021 have taken her to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, for Handel's Oreste under Maxim Emelyanychev, Bradamante & Aristea in Vivaldi's Orlando furioso & L’Olimpiade under Jean-Christophe Spinosi. She's a regular guest at the Festwochen for Early Music in Innsbruck, performing in works including Pasquini's Idalma, the italian version of Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Olimpiade (at the Theater an der Wien, Opera de Nice and in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall) and Cornelia in Giacomelli's Cesare in Egitto. Other recent highlights included de’ Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo at the Theater an der Wien, Handel's Rodelinda (Bertarido) at Theater Kiel, Monteverdi's Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Penelope) at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona and Terradella's Merope mit der Akamus under Francesco Corti at the Berlin State Opera, Theater an der Wien, the Teatro Real in Madrid and Liceu in Barcelona. Recent concert work has included Handel's Messiah in Versailles and Barcelona, La Resurrezione with Concerto Copenhagen in the Konzerthaus in Vienna, in Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at the Handel Festival in Halle and Bach Festival in Lausanne. She also sang in Mozart's Requiem at the Rudolfinum in Prague under Vaclav Luks and in his La Seine Musicale. She, Riccardo Muti and the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra performed Vivaldi's Magnificat in Lourdes and Loreto and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. This winner of the 2020 Cesti International Singing Competition, the audience prize and special prize at the Resonane Festival, graduated from her studies as a chorus master at the Accademia Biennale di Formazione per Direttori di Coro in Bellinzona under Marco Berrini's guidance in 2017.