Maria Agresta

soprano

Maria Agresta
© Elisa Rinaldi

This winner of many singing competitions made her official debut in 2007 and her international breakthrough in 2011, in I vespri siciliani. Since then she has been a regular guest at leading theatres around the world singing roles including Mimì (La Bohème) at La Scala Milan, the Met in New York, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, in Paris, Naples, Turin, Venice, Torre del Lago, Tel Aviv and the Arena di Verona, Leonora (Il trovatore) in Valencia, Madrid und Milan, Violetta (La Traviata) at the Berlin and Bavarian state operas and in Verona, Elvira (Don Giovanni) at La Scala, Norma in Tel Aviv, Turin, Paris, Madrid and Zürich, Gemma (Gemma di Vergy) in Bergamo, Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) in Rome and Dresden, Julia (La vestale) in Dresden, Amalia (I masnadieri) in Venice, Leonora (Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio) at La Scala, Desdemona (Otello) in Valencia, Zürich and Genoa, Elvira (I puritani) at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, Lucrezia (I due Foscari) at Covent Garden, Liù (Turandot) at La Scala, the Met and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Elisabetta (Don Carlo) in Madrid and Venice, Tosca at the Opéra National de Paris and Teatro Real in Madrid, Adriana Lecouvreur at La Scala, Madama Butterfly in London and the ABAO Bilbao Opera. Current plans include her debut as Giorgetta in Il tabarro at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma this April (dir: Johannes Erath) and the title role in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Maria Agresta won the »Franco Abbiati« and »Luigi Illica« prizes.