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polverelliWinner of several international competitions, the Italian mezzo Laura Polverelli has sung several of the most important roles in prestigious Opera Houses in Italy and abroad, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, il Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, l’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, il Teatro La Fenice in Venice, il Teatro Regio in Turin, il Teatro San Carlo in Naples, il Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Ferrara, l’Accademia Chigiana in Siena, la Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, la Hamburgische Staatsoper, il Teatro Real in Madrid, the Opéra de Lyon, the Opéra de Montecarlo, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, il Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles, the Opéra de Lausanne, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, il Glyndebourne International Festival, the Festival Orange, the Festival Mozart della Coruña, the Festival de Beaune, the Festival de Saint-Denis and the Innsbrucker Festwochen Alter Musik, working with famous conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Jeffrey Tate, Colin Davis, René Jacobs, Jesús López-Cobos, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gary Bertini, Fabio Biondi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Ottavio Dantone, Carlo Rizzi, Christophe Rousset, Jean-Claude Malgoire and Andrea Marcon.

Within Laura Polverelli’s operatic repertoire should be especially mentioned her interpretation of Rossini and Mozart roles, such as the Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Isolier in Le Comte Ory, the soloist part within the Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater, as well as Mozart’s Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Annio e Sesto in Lucio Silla, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Idamante in Idomeneo.
She is regularly invited by the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where she already sang Corghi’s Isabella, Isaura in Rossini’s Tancredi and Madame La Rose in Rossini’s Gazzetta.
Among other most significant productions she took part: Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro alla Scala, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon and the Chicago Opera Company, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Angelina in La Cenerentola at the Seattle Opera, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, l’Opéra de Montecarlo and the Royal Flemish Opera House Antwerp, Isolier in Le Comte Ory at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Elena in Rossini’s La donna del lago and Rodrigo in Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei (available also as Dvd edited by Dynamic), Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro as well as Annio in La clemenza di Tito at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, (respectively under Zubin Mehta and Ivor Bolton), Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Festival Les Chorégies d’Orange conducted by Jeffrey Tate, Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Ferrara (under Claudio Abbado), at the Teatro Regio in Turin and the Opéra de Montecarlo, Sesto in Händel´s Giulio Cesare at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Opéra de Montpellier and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Emone in Traetta’s Antigone at the Teatro Real de Madrid, as well as Rossini’s L’equivoco stravagante at the Opera Tenerife.
After two appearances at the Rossini Opera Festival 2009 in Pesaro, where she sang the role of Isolier in Rossini’s Le Comte d’Ory, as well as at the Festival Saint-Denis for Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Laura Polverelli recently returned to the prestigious Teatro alla Scala for the role of Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo conducted by Wyung-Whun Chung. Most recently, her last engagement has seen her as Romeo in Capuleti e Montecchi in Liege, January 2010.
She performed at Stresa Festival in 2004, 2005 and 2007.