Martina Russomanno
soprano
© Aurora Liperini
Born in Italy in 1998 the soprano Martina Russomanno, making her debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Armenaide in this evening's performance ofTancredi, began her artistic career working as an actress and pop singer for Italy's Disney channel. She began studying classical music in Livorno when she was 14. She joined Michéle Crider's class at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2017, where she sang her first Vitellias in La clemenza di Tito in 2021, before becoming a member of the Opera in Paris' Opera Studio (2021 - 2023), and took part in the 2022 Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project, and appeared in Christof Loy's production of Il trittico. She has won prizes at many competitions including the 2020 Portofino international opera competition, the Duschek Competition in Prague and the 2021 AsLiCo and Vincerò competitions. She received the Opéra de Paris' 2022 Cercle Carpeaux Award and the 2023 Jeune Talent Musique & Vin. Her repertoire, which includes Violetta (La traviata), Dircé (Médée), Bianca (La rondine), Manon, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Princess Eudoxie (La Juive), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Drusilla and Fortuna (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), Marzelline (Fidelio), Juliette (The Dead City) and Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte), has taken her to places including Strasbourg, Geneva, Milan, Turin, Paris, Pesaro, Dijon, Brussels, Muscat, Brazil and Venezuela. She sang in Beethoven 9 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and in the Heinz Hall. Recent engagements included Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Stuttgart, Semiramide in Palermo, Susanna in Rome and making her debut at the Arena di Verona as Violetta. She joined the Ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin this season, where she sang Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims. Plans include La traviata in Zürich und Musetta (La bohème) in Torre del Lago.