Valentina Mastrangelo

Appreciated by critics on Operaworld as ‘Magnificent star whose performance has been as shocking as it is moving, her singing and her acting is sensitive’ Xavier Rivera. Described by Le salon Musical as ‘an artist of rare musical intelligence, intense and expressive’ Rino Alessi. Gifted with ‘radiant tibre and delicious phrasing, secure technique’ Operawire Alan Neilson. ‘Bright voice, homogeneous and well projected’ Fabio Larovere. ‘Top of the cast’ in Opera Magazine and in ResMusica “Sa tessiture très homogène ses augus fruités”.

Valentina Mastrangelo has been invited by the most prestigious opera houses and international festivals such as the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Dubai Opera, the Macerata Opera Festival, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre Basel, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Wexford Festival, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, New National Theater in Tokyo, Auditorium Santa Cecilia in Rome.
He has worked with conductors such as M. Arena, G. Bisanti, F. M. Carminati, I. Ciampa, G. Ferro, A. Fisch, F. Lanzillotta, S. Montanari, K. Ono, J. Santonja, C. Feanklin,D. Smith, B. Venezi, J. Gomez, Morandi and directors of the calibre of M. Gandini, M. Bauduin, R. Cucchi, O. Fredj, P. Gavazzeni, D. Livermore, P. Maranghi, D. Michieletto, E. Sagi, J. Spirei, G. Vick, L. Micheletti.

Recent and future engagements include: Mimì in La bohème at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, Musetta in La bohème at the NNTT in Tokyo and Amelia Robsart in Bastarda at the Monnaie in Brussels, Mozart's Requiem at the Accademia Santa Cecilia, Lola in Falso tradimento by Maestro Tutino in Sassari, Magnificat by J. S. Bach with the Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini, in 2025 Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Cologne Opera, Boccherini's Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma with Maestro Onofri.

Among the roles she debuted were Inés in La favourite, Countess Olga Sukarev in Fedora, Hanna Glawari in Die lustige Witwe, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susanna and Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Rossini's Otello, Musetta and Mimì in La bohème, Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims, Tatyana in Evgenij Onegin, Olivia in Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, Bettina in Miseria e Nobiltà, Soprano in C. Gounod, Jungfrau in Das Paradies und die Peri, op 50 by R. Schumann, Lola in Falso tradimento by Marco Tutino.

In addition to the operatic repertoire she also dedicates herself to chamber music; she has in fact recorded ‘Tosti The song of a life’ for Brilliant Classics.

Valentina studied under the technical guidance of Maestro Fernando C. Opa and has previously studied with Soprano Mariella Devia. She perfected her repertoire at the Leopold Mozart Zentrum in Augsburg and at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro where she debuted her first role, Madama Cortese, at the Rossini Opera Festival.