SOI Scuola dell’Opera Italiana Fiorenza Cedolins

Milan (Madama Butterfly and Don Carlo), Metropolitan Opera House in NY (Madama Butterfly and Aida) and ROH Covent Garden in London (Il Trovatore), Opéra Bastille in Paris (Tosca). Fiorenza Cedolins has performed the season opening night of many Italian theatres including Bologna's Teatro Comunale 2003/2004 I Masnadieri; Turin's Teatro Regio 2005/2006 Aida; Festival Verdi in Parma 2007 Luisa Miller; Teatro La Fenice in Venice 2008 La Rondine, Teatro alla Scala in Milan 2008 Don Carlo. Amongst her performances are Cavalleria Rusticana with Muti at the Ravenna Festival; Simon Boccanegra in Montecarlo conducted by Oren; Norma in Catania, Tokyo, Genova, Barcelona, Ancona, Bilbao, Aida in Napoli and in Arena di Verona, Adriana Lecouvreur in Trieste and Roma; Poliuto in Bilbao, Maria Stuarda at the Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Il Trovatore in Firenze, at the Arena di Verona, Parma, Tokyo, Frankfurt, München, Palermo, Napoli, Barcelona and London. She was also Madama Butterfly at the Liceu in Barcelona, Luisa Miller at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Her Verdi's roles included also I lombardi alla prima crociata, La battaglia di Legnano; Puccini’s roles included also Manon Lescaut, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica,Tabarro, Le Villi, Turandot (Liù), She performed Verdi’s Messa di Requiem at the Arena di Verona and Avery Fischer Hall in New York under Maazel, Royal Albert Hall in London under Gatti, Auditorium Santa Cecilia in Roma under Mehta, Konzerthause in Wien under Chailly. She has received several prestigious awards included "Premio Abbiati della Critica Italiana 1999/2000", Opera Award 1999, Opera Award 2001, Zenatello Arena di Verona 2000 and 2001; Premio Campoamor “best singer of the year 2008”, also the “Artist of the Year Award 2007” at the Liceu in Barcelona from “IV and V Piso Association” and Premio Muse 2009 in Firenze. Her discography includes Il Trovatore in Parma, Tosca with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Luisa Miller Krief's production in Parma, Tosca De Ana's production and Madama Butterfly Zeffirelli's production at the Arena di Verona, Puccini’s La rondine Vick's production in Venice, Norma in Tokyo and Barcelona, the DVD “Dedicate to Puccini” at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca for the Puccini’s Anniversary Celebrations. In 2009, Fiorenza Cedolins was also appointed Artistic Director Teatro della Fortuna in Fano. In 2011, she was invited for Falstaff at the Liceu in Barcelona, Fabio Luisi conducting, Pagliacci Grisha Asagarov's production at the Opernhaus Zurich, Madama Butterfly at the Wiener Staatsoper, Un Ballo in Maschera Pountney's new production at the Opernhaus Zurich, Simon Boccanegra at the Wiener Staatsoper under Chung, Don Carlo in Sevilla, La Bohème at the Arena in Verona, Otello Graham Vick's new production at the Opernhaus Zürich, under Daniele Gatti. In 2012, Fiorenza Cedolins has performed Luisa Miller in Bilbao, La Bohème in Barcelona, a new Poliuto's production of Michieletto and Otello in Zürich, Carmen in Arena di Verona. She was invited in Salzburger Festspiele for singing with Placido Domingo at the Benefizkonzert conducted by Mº Zubin Mehta. After Madama Butterfly at the Festival de la Opera de A Coruna, she has performed La Bohème at Shanghai Grand Theatre in the Salzburger Festspiele's tournée, under Oren, Michieletto's production. In 2013, Fiorenza Cedolins has performed Messa di Requiem G. Verdi, at the Symphony Hall, Boston, with Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniele Gatti; La Bohème, in Las Palmas, director Mario Pontiggia; Falstaff, at the Salzburger Festspiele, in Salzburg, with direction of Damiano Michieletto, conducting Zubin Mehta; Aida, at the Arena di Verona, Century Festival Celebration, d.Gianfranco De Bosio, c.Daniel Oren. In 2014: Madama Butterfly TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO Tosca, LICEU di BARCELONA (new production) Tosca - Teatro Principal di Palma de Mallorca Tosca, 1st act Opening Gala at the "Nuovo Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" Falstaff at the NEDERLANDSE OPERA, with the ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA; conductor D.GATTI director R.CARSEN Aida at the MACERATA OPERA FESTIVAL (new production) conductor JULIA JONES, director FRANCESCO MICHELI 18th and 27th July - 2nd and 10th August Gala Concert in Athens,TEATRO HERODES ATTICUS ODEON, conductor KARYTINOS Aida in Tournee in Japan, conductor ROSA director MAESTRINI Vedova Allegra at the TEATRO VERDI in SALERNO, conductor OREN/PINTO director SGARBI. In 2015 Butterfly at the PALACIO EUSKALDUNA JAURENGIA in Bilbao, conductor ZANETTI - director GIACCHIERI NEXT ENGAGEMENT: Recital at "la Maestranza" di Siviglia. Eugene Onegin at the Teatro Principal de Mallorca, conductor JOSE MARIA MORENO - director ALFONSO ROMERO MORA. Pagliacci (Nedda) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, conductor CARLO RIZZI - director MARIO MARTONE Tosca at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, conductor JORDI BERNACER Tosca at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, conductor RICCARDO FRIZZA - director SERENA SINIGAGLIA. In 2016 Tosca, at Oper-Leipzig conductor CHRISTOPH GEDSCHOLD Fedora at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, conductor CHRISTIAN BADEA, director LAMBERTO PUGGELLI. Recital at RAI Auditorium Torino, with Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale of RAI conductor PIETRO RIZZO Norma, at the Sofia Oper, conductor GRIGOR PALIKAROV, director HUGO DE ANA Bohéme at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, conductor FABIO MASTRANGELO director ETTORE SCOLA Don Carlo at the Sofia Oper, director PLAMEN KARTALOV Il Trovatore at the Seul Art Center, conductor GIANLUCA MARTINENGHI, director LORENZO MARIANI Tosca at Teatro Verdi in Salerno, conductor DANIEL OREN, director RENZO GIACCHIERI Recital Pucciniano for the Festival Puccini Days at the Teatro del Giglio Lucca. In 2017 Tosca, at the Sofía Oper, conductor FRANCESCO ROSA. Tosca, at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, conductor ANTONINO FOGLIANI, director GIOVANNI AGOSTINUCCI. Tosca, at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, conductor GIANLUCA MARTINENGHI, director MARIO PONTIGGIA, Adriana Lecouvreur, at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, conductor DANIEL OREN, director IVAN STEFANUTTI