Giuliana Gianfaldoni
soprano
© Barbara Rigon
The Italian soprano Giuliana Gianfaldoni is making her debut at Oper Frankfurt, singing Amenaide, a role she enjoyed success in Rome and Cologne, in tonight's performance of Rossini's Tancredi. She was born in Taranto and studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatorio in Bologna and with Antonella D’Amico in Verona. She won the 2014 AsLiCo competition for young female singers and 1st prize at the 2015 Ottavio Ziino International Singing Competition in Rome. She made her operatic debut singing Despina in Così fan tutte in Tenerife, where she returned for Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She sparked international interest when she sang Konstanze in a children's version of Entführung aus dem Serail as part of the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project, since when she has thrilled audiences at leading theatres, including those in Genoa, Turin, Bologna, Naples, Bari, Palermo, Toulon and Toulouse, the Wexford, Macerata, Parma and Rossini Opera festivals and the Festival della Valle d’Itria. Her repertoire includes Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Marie (La fille du Régiment), Norina (Don Pasquale), Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), Micaëla (Carmen), Gilda (Rigoletto), Nannetta (Falstaff), Ismene (Mitridate, re di Ponto), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and the title roles in Mozart's Zaide and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. She has worked with conductors and directors including Nicola Luisotti, Daniele Rustioni, Giacomo Sagripanti & Michele Mariotti, Pierluigi Pizzi, Graham Vick & Claus Guth. Future plans include Verdi's I Masnadieri at the Klangvokal Festival and Gilda in Cagliari and Buenos Aires.