Francesca Pia Vitale

Included in the TOP TEN rising stars of opera by OPERA WIRE 2022, she won numerous international awards after graduating in 2020 from the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. During her years of specialization at La Scala, she performs in numerous concerts, takes masterclasses with Luciana D'intino, Renato Bruson, Eva Mei, Leo Nucci, Ildar Abdrazakov, Nino Machaidze and Marcelo Alvarez, enriches her studies under the guidance of maestros Vincenzo Scalera, James Vaughan, Michele D'Elia. She received praise and acclaim from directors such as Woody Allen, Gilbert Deflo, Grisha Asagaroff, Ulrich Peter, Irina Brook and Marina Bianchi and from conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Daniel Oren and Stefano Ranzani.

She makes her debut at La Scala as Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, and then sings in the diptych Prima la musica poi le parole and Gianni Schicchi, under the baton of Ádám Fischer and directed by Woody Allen, then she is Paggio in Rigoletto conducted by Daniel Oren and directed by Gilbert Deflo. In the same season she returned to the role of Giannetta, at the same time she was Clorinda in La Cenerentola for children and made her debut at the Cagliari Opera House for the productionof Hänsel und Gretel directed by Johannes Debus.

For Teatro alla Scala's fall 2020 season, she played the role of Annina in La Traviata conducted by Zubin Mehta, then Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at Teatro degli Arcimboldi, broadcast on SkyClassica, and made her debut at Arena di Verona in La Traviata.

In 2022 she is on a French tour, treading the stages of theaters in Clermont-Ferrand, Vichy, Avignon, Metz, and Reims playing Lisa in a new production of La Sonnambula, garnering enormous acclaim from both critics and French audiences.

She returned to La Scala as Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto, and then made her debut in Padua as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, at the Royal Opera House in Muscat as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro in the Teatro alla Scala's landmark production directed by Giorgio Strehler, and returned to La Scala as Ciomma in Leonardo Vinci's Le zite 'ngalera and Sophie in Werther. She sang La Bohème at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and at Bordeaux Opera, again I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Don Pasquale at the Regio in Turin.

She will be Silandra in Orontea at Teatro alla Scala, Merope on tour in Europe, Rigoletto in Hannover and Re Pastore at the Rome Opera.

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