Patrizia Ciofi |

Patrizia Ciofi

One of the brightest singers of her generation, Patricia Ciofi studied vocals under the guidance of the Polish teacher Anastasia Tomaszewska in Siena and Livorno, where she graduated from the conservatory in 1989. She has also attended master classes with renowned musicians such as Carlo Bergonzi, Shirley Verrett, Claudio Desderi, Alberto Zedda and Giorgio Gualerzi. As a laureate of several regional and international competitions, Patricia Ciofi made her debut in 1989 on the stage of the Florentine Municipal Theatre (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theater). Permanent engagements at the opera festival in Martina Franca (Apulia, Italy) allowed the singer to significantly expand her repertoire. Here she first performed the roles of Amina (Bellini’s La sonnambula), Glauca (Cherubini’s Medea), Lucia (Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, French version), Aricia (Traetta’s Hippolyte and Aricia), Desdemona (Rossini’s Otello). ) and Isabella (“Robert the Devil” by Meyerbeer).

In subsequent years, the singer performed on the stages of all the major theaters in Italy. Among them are the La Scala theater in Milan (Verdi’s La Traviata, Donizetti’s Love Potion, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Rossini’s Journey to Reims), Theatre Royal in Turin (Massene’s Cinderella, Puccini’s La bohème, Handel’s Tamerlane, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Verdi’s La Traviata, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Verdi’s Rigoletto), San Carlo Theater in Naples (“Eleanor” Simone, “La Boheme” Puccini, “La Sonnambula” Bellini), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theater (“The Abduction from the Seraglio” and “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart, “Rigoletto” by Verdi), Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (“Rigoletto”, “The Marriage of Figaro”, “Daughter of the Regiment” by Donizetti), Municipal Theatre c Bologna (“Bohemian” Puccini, “Somnambula” Bellini), Massimo Opera House in Palermo (“The Thieving Magpie” by Rossini, “Rigoletto” by Verdi and “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” by Debussy), the theater “La Fenice” in Venice (“La Traviata” by Verdi). The singer is also a welcome guest at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, where she made her debut in 2001 in the pasticcio “The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus”, and in subsequent years she performed the roles of Fiorilla (“The Turk in Italy”), Amenaida (“Tancred”) and Adelaide ( “Adelaide of Burgundy”).

The singer’s schedule of performances in theaters outside of Italy is no less intense. She has performed at all opera houses in Paris (Paris Opera, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Théâtre Châtelet) in operas by Verdi (Falstaff), Mozart (Mithridates, King of Pontus, Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni), Monteverdi ( The Coronation of Poppea”), R. Strauss (“The Rosenkavalier”), Puccini (“Gianni Schicchi”) and Handel (“Alcina”). Among other engagements of the singer are performances at the National Opera of Lyon (Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor), at the Marseille Opera (Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann), at the Zurich Opera (Verdi’s La Traviata), at the London Royal Theater “Covent Garden” (“Don Giovanni” by Mozart and “Rigoletto” by Verdi), at the Monte Carlo Opera (“Journey to Reims” by Rossini), at the Vienna State Opera (“Rigoletto” by Verdi). Patricia Ciofi has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Meta, Bruno Campanella, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gawazeni, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Evelino Pido, George Pretre, Marcello Viotti, Alberto Zedda, Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi and George Nelson. Having gained a reputation as an excellent performer of early music, she has repeatedly been involved in cooperation with such experts in this field as René Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Emmanuelle Heim, Christophe Rousset and Elan Curtis.

Since 2002, Patricia Ciofi has been recording exclusively for EMI Classics/Virgin. Among her recordings are chamber cantatas by G. Scarlatti, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, spiritual motets, as well as the operas Bayazet and Hercules on Thermodon by Vivaldi, Handel’s Radamist and duets from his operas with Joyce DiDonato, Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz . For other labels, Patricia Ciofi has recorded Bellini’s La sonnambula, Cherubini’s Medea (both for Nuova Era), Meyerbeer’s Robert the Devil and Rossini’s Otello (for Dynamic), Figaro’s Marriage (for “Harmonia Mundi”: This recording won a Grammy in 2005). Among the singer’s upcoming performances are engagements at the Marseille Opera (Romeo and Juliet by Gounod), the Neapolitan San Carlo Theater (Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers), the Berlin Deutsche Oper (Rossini’s Tancred and Verdi’s La Traviata) , London’s Royal Theater “Covent Garden” (Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment).

Based on materials from the official press release of the Moscow Philharmonic