Giulia Semenzato
soprano
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Giulia Semenzato studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di in Venice before joining the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she specialised in baroque repertoire under the guidance of Rosa Dominguez. She won the 2012 Toti dal Monte di Treviso competition, the Farinelli Prize for the best baroque voice at a competition in Bologna in 2013 and the 2014 Cesti Competition in Innsbruck. She made her debut singing Elisetta in Cimarosa‘s Il Matrimonio Segreto in Treviso, Lucca, Ferrara and Pisa and enjoyed great success in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans and Ottone in Villa at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and in Mozart’s Lucio Silla at La Scala Milan. Other Mozart roles include Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Serpetta (La finta Giardiniera), Despina (Cosi fan tutte) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte). She also sang Nanetta in Verdi‘s Falstaff at the NCPA in Beijing, Carolina in Cimarosa’s Matrimonio Segreto at the Festwochen in Innsbruck and Michal in Handel’s Saul and Dorinda in Orlando, both at the Theater an der Wien. She also thrilled audiences with Poppea in Monteverdi’s L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Opera du Rhin, Venere in Ercole Amante at the Opera Comique in Paris, Salome in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the title role in Cavalli’s Elena e Eritrea in Aix-en-Provence. Concert work has taken her to the philharmonies in Paris and Berlin and the Elb Philharmonie in Hamburg. Giulia Semenzato has worked with conductors and directors including René Jacobs, Paavo Järvi, Zubin Metha, John Eliot Garidiner, Alfredo Bernardini, Keri-Lynn Wilson & Ingo Metzmacher, Claus Guth, Christof Loy, Damiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, David McVicar, Barrie Kosky, Evgeny Titov & Christoph Marthaler. Her first solo album - Angelica Diabolica – was released recently by Alpha Classics. Recent successful debuts have included Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden in London and at the Mozartwochen and Festival in Salzburg in Suor Angelica and Falstaff. Plans this season include Dido and Aeneas at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Orlando at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Idomeneo at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Salome at the Festival Castell de Peralada.