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frittoli.jpgAmong her career’s most remarkable performances were the leading roles in Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), La clemenza di Tito (Vitellia), Otello (Desdemona), La bohème (Mimì), Carmen (Micaela), Turandot (Liù), Mitridate Re di Ponto (Sifare), Falstaff (Alice), Simon Boccanegra (Amelia), Faust (Margherite), Luisa Miller (title role), Il Trovatore (Leonora), roles portrayed on the stage of the most prestigious Opera houses, in Italy (Teatro alla Scala, Ravenna Festival, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova) and abroad (Wiener Staatsoper, Festival di Salisburgo, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper di Monaco, Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Zurich Opernhaus, Opéra National de Paris, Gran Teatre de Liceu di Barcelona, Glyndebourne Festival). She has just sung the title role in Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera.
Barbara Frittoli’s vast concert repertoire includes Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder, Mozart’s C minor Mass K427, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s Symphony n. 4. She successfully sang as soloist in a Liederabend (Lieder by Beethoven, Schubert, Duparc) in Italy and abroad. She collaborates with such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Colin Davis, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Georges Prêtre.
Highlights of Barbara Frittoli’s future engagements also include: Falstaff in Torino; Verdi’s Requiem in Copenhagen with the Denmark Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti, in Parma again with Riccardo Muti and at the Teatro alla Scala under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. In 2008 season it’s worth also mentioning her debut in the role of Tatjana (Eugene Onegin) in Chicago, Le nozze di Figaro in London, Simon Boccanegra in San Francisco.
She performed at Settimane Musicali di Stresa in 2001 and in 2003