Biography
The soprano Irene Cerboncini has studied in Genova (Italy) and has obtained her Degree in Literature and Philosophy with honours in 1990.
In 1987, during her university studies, she has started to study singing at the Accademia di Bel Canto with the tenor Luciano Saldari, and to perform in concerts, focusing her attention on Verdian and Puccinian repertoire.
MAIN ROLES ALREADY PERFORMED:
Tosca (1994/95: Germany, Great Britain); Il Trovatore (1995: Germany, Great Britain; 2000: Rovigo, Pisa, Lucca, Trento); Turandot (1997: London; 2003: Teatro Carlo Felice; 2004: Teatro alla Scala; 2007: Teatro Regio of Parma); Madama Butterfly (1998: London; 2003: Zagabria); La Bohème (1999: Scottish Opera; 2006: Mexico); La Fanciulla del West (2001: Lucca, Bergamo, Pisa, Livorno, Ascoli Piceno; 2005: Teatro Carlo Felice, Covent Garden; 2007: Messina); Aida (2000: Bordeaux, Strasburg; 2001: Maribor; 2002: Pavia, Catania; 2005: Siberia); Il Tabarro (2002: Bergamo, Lucca, Novara); Fedora (2004: Teatro alla Scala); Salomé (2005: Opéra de Nice); Le Villi (2006: Teatro Sociale of Como); Adriana Lecouvreur (2007: Teatro alla Scala);
In November 2003 she has performed as TURANDOT at the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova with Bruno Bartoletti as conductor and Giuliano Montaldo as director for the first Italian performance of Luciano Berio’s end.
In January 2004 she has performed again TURANDOT at the TEATRO ALLA SCALA, with Carlo Rizzi as conductor and Keita Asari as director; in June 2004 she has returned to the TEATRO ALLA SCALA for the role of FEDORA, with Stefano Ranzani as conductor and Lamberto Puggelli as director.
In April 2005 she returned to the Carlo Felice of Genoa like protagonist of “La Fanciulla del West” directed from Nicola Luisotti; with the scenic direction of Piero Faggioni, earning a great success of public and critic and in May 2005 at the Opéra of Nice for the debut of "Salome" of R. Strauss (french version November 1905) under the direction of Marco Guidarini, and the scenic direction of Jean-Louis Pichon; in july 2005 she sings in Baveno in a Recital dedicated to U. Giordano with the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali directed by M° Francesco Maria Colombo; in October 2005 she sings at the Palais of Monte Carlo “Requiem” of G. Verdi with the Orchestra of the Opera of Nice, directed from Marco Guidarini.
In 2007 she performed in a recital of Puccini’s Arias in Tokyo, she sings the role of TURANDOT at the Teatro Regio of Parma with Donato Renzetti as conductor, she debuts ADRIANA LECOUVREUR at the Teatro alla Scala, and she sing again the role of Minnie in LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST under the conduction of M° Maurizio Arena.
Her next engagements will see her as protagonist of OBERTO, CONTE DI SAN BONIFACIO in Busseto, in AIDA in Seoul and in ANDREA CHENIER a Toulouse.
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