“Un ballo in maschera”

stages worldwide . She has appeared at the major opera houses: at La Scala in Milan she sang Leonora in La forza del destino under Riccardo Muti. At theRome Opera , for the centenary of Puccini’s Tosca, she sang the title role with Luciano Pavarotti and Juan Pons, conducted by Plácido Domingoin Franco Zeffirelli’s production. She has also sung the role at theDeutsche Oper in Berlin , the “Teatro Regio” in Turin, the National Theatre in Athens and the “Teatro Verdi” in Trieste. At theTeatro Real in Madrid she sang Un ballo in maschera and Verdi’s Requiem. The Tel Aviv Opera House, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile and the Rome Opera have seen her as Bellini’s Norma; at the Rome Opera she has also sung Il trovatore and Ernani.At the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam she sang Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with Sir Colin Davis. With the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi under Riccardo Chailly she opened the

Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi 2002 with Verdi’s Requiem, later performed at the Auditorium in Milan, in Bergamo and Brescia and, under Frühbeck de Burgos, at the international festival in Santander, Spain, and for the reopening of Dresden Cathedral in 2005. She has appeared often in the Netherlands, France and Germany , where she has been an admired Verdi singer in Macbeth, Norma and Il trovatore. In the United States she sang Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Baltimore and, in 2005, Tosca at the Michigan Theatre in Detroit and at the Kennedy Center in Washington , having sung Un ballo in maschera in the US capital the previous year under Plácido Domingo. At the Grand Théâtre de Genève she was a brilliant Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma, and also Aida, a role she has sung in a large-scale production with more than a thousand extras at the Basel stadium before

27,000 spectators . Tosca again at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and at theVienna Staatsoper , where she has sung Il trovatore, Ernani, Un ballo in maschera, Aida and Verdi’s Requiem. At the Macao International Music Festival in China, at the Teresa Carreño in Caracas and in Palma de Mallorca she has sung Puccini’s La Bohème, while in Japan , in Tokyo and Yokohama in 2002, she won great acclaim for Tosca , confirmed in 2005 with Aida in Tokyo and Nagoya. a Tokyo e Yokoama nel 2002 ha ricevuto numerosi consensi per Tosca confermati nel 2005 con Aida che ha cantato nella capitale nipponica e a Nagoya.