Maria Pia Piscitelli
Born in Giovinazzo, she undertook her musical studies in her hometown.
She began a brilliant career debuting: Cavalli's La Calisto at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (recorded on CD); Il matrimonio segreto at Ravenna Festival; Martin y Soler's Una cosa rara at the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) at San Francisco Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper and La Fenice in Venice; Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa) at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Palermo, Klagenfurt and Beijing; La clemenza di Tito (Vitellia) in Klagenfurt and Graz; Cherubini's Medea in Catania (Italian version), Real in Madrid (French version), Teatro alla Scala (French version); Rossini's Semiramide in Naples; Beatrice di Tenda at Teatro alla Scala; Roberto Devereux in Santiago, Barcelona, Pamplona, Lyon, at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, at Real in Madrid; Lucrezia Borgia at La Scala in Milan; Maria Stuarda (Maria and Elisabetta) in Macerata, Montecarlo, Wiesbaden, at Berlin Staatsoper, at La Scala in Milan, in Catania and Venice; Anna Bolena at the Liceu in Barcelona; IL Pirata at the Real in Madrid, Dortmund, Simon Boccanegra at the Colon in Buenos Aires and Cagliari, Staatsoper in Vienna, Don Carlo (Elisabetta) at the Colon in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Amsterdam, at the Staatsoper in Vienna; Il Trovatore at the Petruzzelli of Bari, Barcelona, Lima; Un ballo in maschera in Buenos Aires, Madrid, Pamplona La forza del destino in Buenos Aires Barcelona, Salerno, Opernahus Zurich, Aida in Lima and Cagliari, Bratislava, Macbeth in Wroclaw, Bratislava, Dresden, Turandot (Liù), La Bohème (Mimì) in Malaga; Tosca in Montevideo, Modena, Ferrara, Piacenza, Copenhagen, Colon, Buenos Aires, Le Villi in Modena, Reggio Emilia, Guglielmo Ratcliff by Mascagni in Livorno, Lucca, Mantova; Falstaff (Alice) at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Andrea Chénier at the Colon in Buenos Aires, Comunale in Bologna; Norma at Opera in Rome, at the Staatsoper in Vienna, at Colon in Buenos Aires, at Palm Beach Opera, at Comunale in Bologna, at Municipal in Santiago de Chile, at Teatro de la Plata, at Teatro Principal in Mallorca, at Opera de Vichy, at Opera de Massy, at Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, at Opera of São Paulo in Brazil; Caterina Cornaro at Festival of Montpellier - Radio France; Pagliacci in Cagliari; Vedova allegra at San Carlo in Naples; Manon Lescaut at Petruzzelli in Bari, Liceu Barcelona.
She has collaborated with important conductors such as: Savall, Campanella, Oren, Pidò, Abel, Armiliato, Palumbo, Gelmetti, Allemandi, Jia, Frizza, Haider, Fogliani, Carminati, Ferro, Callegari, Benini, Guadagno, Arrivabeni, Ranzani, Manacorda, Yurkevych, Soudant, Fasolis, Gatti, Zedda,
Guidarini, Morandi, Luisotti, Luisi and with directors such as: Pizzi, Pier'Alli, Hampe, Michieletto, Puggelli, Ronconi, De Ana, Krief, Crivelli, Tiezzi, Zeffirelli, Kokkos, Fo, Miller, Moshinsky, Deflo, Bolton.
At the same time she carried out an intense concert activity: Prokofiev's Maddalena at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome; Petite Messe solennelle and Cantate per i Borboni at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Schubert's Messa in C major D. 452 at Filarmonico in Verona; Vier Letzte Lieder by Strauss and Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the Fondazione Toscanini in Parma; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; Mendelssohn's Lobgesang at the Lirico in Cagliari; Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the Colon in Buenos Aires.
