Patrizia Ciofi & Rosaria Pellicanò
Biography Patrizia Ciofi & Rosaria Pellicanò
Patrizia Ciofi
A native of Casole d'Elsa, Tuscany, Patrizia Ciofi is one of today's most versatile sopranos, with a discography that already includes over fifty recordings. Born in 1967 and trained in neighbouring Siena, she made her professional debut in 1989 at the Teatro Comunale in Florence, which was followed by engagements in other Italian houses, initially mainly in Mozart roles, and shortly afterwards also in Verdi operas. Her role debut as Lucia di Lammermoor in Savona (1996) marked her final breakthrough; an invitation to La Scala in Milan followed, where she sang Violetta in "La Traviata" with groundbreaking success in 1997. Further important debuts at international houses such as the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Lyric Opera Chicago followed in the following years, followed by her long-awaited debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2008. Ciofi has made a name for herself in the course of her career with a variety of roles between early music, Mozart and bel canto characters, as Gilda or Mimì, and above all in the French repertoire, where she set standards as Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment, in the title role of Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Dinorah", as Isabella in his "Robert le diable" and above all as Marguerite de Valois in "Les Huguenots" or also as Leila in Bizet's "Pearl Fishers", Juliette in Charles Goundo's "Romeo et Juliette". In 2017, she made her role debut as Bellini's Norma in Liège and thrilled audiences in the 2018/19 season as the Primadonna in Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera "Viva la Mamma" in Geneva.
