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FrittoliBarbara Frittoli has become a highly sought-after performer on both the concert and operatic stage in a wide range of repertory. She is a regular guest of some of the most prestigious theatrical institutions, in Italy such as Teatro alla Scala, Ravenna Festival, Teatro Regio di Torino, San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, and abroad such as: Wiener Staatsoper, Salzbuerg Festival, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper di Monaco, Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Zurich Opernhaus, the Metropolitan Opera Opéra National de Paris, Gran Teatre de Liceu di Barcelona, Glyndebourne Festival.
Among 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, Il trovatore (Leonora). Her repertoire further includes: Pergolesi’s Flaminio, Medora Il corsaro (Torino), Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann, and in the role of Elisabetta in Don Carlo.

Barbara Frittoli’s vast concert repertoire includes Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Strauss’ Vier lezte Lieder, Mozart’s C minor Mass K. 427, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s Symphony no. 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.
Barbara Frittoli’s discography includes many recordings, such as Puccini’s Il Trittico for Decca, Il barbiere di Siviglia for Teldec and Il viaggio a Reims conducted by Abbado for Sony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Muti for Emi, Turandot (Liù) with Mehta for Bmg, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, I Pagliacci (Nedda) with Chailly and La bohème (Mimì) with Mehta, Cds of Mozart arias with Charles Mackerras and of Verdi arias with Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra for Erato.
She recently sung the title role in Thaïs in Turin, Verdi’s Requiem with Pappano at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Così fan tutte in Valencia, Simon Boccanegra in Boston and New York under James Levine, Le nozze di Figaro in Madrid and at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Carmen and Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, Don Carlo in a Japan tour.
In the next future she will sing at the Opéra National de Paris, at the Oper Frankfurt, at the Metropolitan Opera, at the Opernhaus in Zürich, at the Wiener Staatsoper, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, only to name a few.
She performed at Stresa Festival in 2001, 2003 and 2007.