MONICA MINARELLI

Mezzosoprano

Italian mezzo-soprano, she studied Piano and Opera singing at the conservatories of Bologna (G.B. Martini) and Ferrara (G. Frescobaldi)

She was finalist at the Pavarotti International competition in Philadelphia. Her teacher was bariton Sesto Bruscantini.

1991/1992: Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Melanto) Semperoper Theatre in Dresden; Fedora (Dimitri) La Scala Theatre in Milan conducted by Maestro G. Gavazzeni; Flaminio (Giustina) S. Carlo Theatre in Naples conducted by Maestro Accardo.

1993/1994: Teatro Comunale in Ferrara conducted by Maestro C. Abbado. Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress) Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Orfeo and Euridice (Orfeo) Teatro di Documenti in Rome (from selections of Maestro G. Sinopoli).

1995/1996: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Romeo) Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania; Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola) at the New Israeli Opera Theater - Tel Aviv.

1997/1998: Nabucco (Fenena) Teatro Regio in Turin; La Fiamma, Opera Theatre in Rome. Don Sebastian (Zaida) Aachen Theatre (Germany); Julius Caesar (Cornelia) Opera Theatre in Rome; La Gazza Ladra - (Pippo) Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina.

1999: Wozzeck - (Margret) Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Norma - Opera Theatre in Rome; Falstaff - (Quickly) Vittorio Emanuele ( Messina).

2000: Ariadne auf Naxos (Componist) S. Carlo Theatre in Naples; Salome (Herodias) Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Equivoco stravagante (Rosalia) Wildbad Festival (Germany) and recording of CD conducted by Maestro Zedda; Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola) Teatro Comunale in Florence conducted by Maestro B. Bartoletti.

2001:Lulù (Gymnasiast) Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Notte di Maggio (La Matrigna) Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Il Trovatore, Festival Verona Arena.

2002: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Nicklauss) Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Adriana Lecouvreur (Principessa di Bouillon) Teatro Massimo in Catania; Noye’s Fludde (Mrs Noye) Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Il Trovatore; Carmen; Nabucco in Summer Festival in Stuttgart, Mannheim (Germany) and Innsbruck (Austria).

2003; Amahl e i visitatori notturni (Mother) - Auditorium in Milan.; Salome (Herodias) (Page) Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa; A Streetcar named desire (Eunice) Teatro Regio in Turin; La Sposa venduta (Hata) Teatro Comunale in Bologna; La Marescialla d’Ancre at the Teatro Lirico Pergolesi; Carmen, Hallen Stadion in Zurich conducted by Michael Sasson.

2004: Aida (Amneris) in Hannover (Germany) and Schloss in Vienna (Austria) Conductor M° Wilhelm Keitel; Cavalleria Rusticana in Rome; Messa da Requiem at Arena in Verona.

2005: Oedipe (Locaste) Theatre Lyric of Cagliari; Andrea Chenier (Bersi’) at Theatre Massimo of Palermo; Carmen and Nabucco (Fenena) in German and Austrian Festivals.

2006: The Consul at Regio’s Theatre of Torino; Nabucco at Bologna’s Theatre; Il Finto Stanislao Moritz’s Festival ( Switzerland); Genoveva Teatro Massimo of Palermo; Salome Theatre of Opera of Rome

2007: Cavalleria Rusticana, Monaco-Montecarlo; Carmen, Teatre of Leipzig (Germany); Cavalleria Rusticana, tour in Japan with Teatro Massimo Palermo; Un Giorno di Regno, Basel; Cendrillon Stadttheater Bern.

2008: Aida (Amneris) Stadttheater Bern; Mefistofele, Teatro Massimo Palermo Stadttheater Bern; Concerts ante-opera Aida and Carmen in Arena Verona; Der Vampyr Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

2009: Honorary Member of Wien’s Academy; Master classes in Konzert Hause of Wien; Un Ballo in Maschera (Ulrica) Stadttheater di Berna; La Fille du Regiment (Marquise de Berkenfield) Festival of Solothurn.