
Born in Naples, Giacinta Nicotra brilliantly graduated in modern literature at the University of her home town. At the same time she began her musical studies in Rome. After some years as member of the choir of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, she started her career making her debut in Rossini’s Cenerentola in the summer season of the San Carlo, Naples.
Competitions and awards:
1999: winner of the Adriano Belli Competition of Spoleto;
2000: winner of the Premio Viotti
Operatic debuts
1998: Pulcinella (protagonist) at the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Roma, also performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
1999: Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) and in Dido and Aeneas.(Dido) within the A.Belli Competition in Spoleto
2000: Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) – Trieste,Teatro Verdi; L’Incoronazione di Poppea –Florence; Barbiere
di Siviglia (Rosina) –Savona, Teatro Chiabrera; Stiffelio(Dorotea) -
2001: La Rondine, Die Zauberflöte (seconda Dama) Rome, conductor M° Gelmetti. Rossini’s Stabat
Mater with the Orchestra Regionale Toscana and again Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) with
the Accademia di S. Cecilia, in concert.; Il matrimonio segreto (Fidalma) – Teramo; Signor
Bruschino -
2002: Cenerentola (Angelina) –Savona; Suor Angelica – Rome, Teatro dell’Opera; La serva padrona – Florence; Baroque music concerts in a tour in France.
2003: Tancredi –Trieste, Teatro Verdi; Barbiere di Siviglia – Teramo; Orfeo all’inferno
– Trieste; Francesca da Rimini -
2004: Orlando (Dorinda) Ravenna and Reggio Emilia, Le Comte Ory (Isolier) -
2005: Così fan tutte (Dorabella) – Rome, Teatro dell’Opera; Li finti filosofi -
2006: Andrea Chènier (Bersi) -
2007: Aida (Sacerdotessa) – La Scala di Milano; Traviata (Flora), Così fan tutte (Despina), Geirg Trakl e La sorella Grete Rivelazioni e Declino – Teatro dell´ Opera in Rome.
2008: La Rondine (Bianca) -
2009: Ifigenia in Aulide – Rome; Demofonte -
2010: Juditha Triumphans – Corea; Don Giovanni (Elvira) -
2011: Così fan tutte (Despina) -
2012: Le nozze di Figaro -
GIACINTA NICOTRA
Soprano
