Silvia Tro Santafé

Spanish mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé has established a solid reputation among  audiences and in the world’s leading opera houses. Her repertoire spans from the  Baroque to the 21st century, though she is especially recognized as one of today’s  foremost interpreters of Rossini and bel canto.Throughout her career, she has performed more than 30 operatic roles. Some of her  most notable roles include: Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Cenerentola (La Cenerentola),  Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri), Lucilla (La scala di seta), Ernestina (L'equivoco stravagante), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Malcom (La  donna del lago), Arsace (Semiramide and Aureliano in Palmira), Zelmira (Zelmira),  Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Isoletta (La Straniera), Maffio Orsini  (Lucrezia Borgia), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena),  Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Princess Eboli (Don Carlo), Fenena (Nabucco), and  characters in Handel’s works such as Xerxes, Rinaldo, Ariodante, Polinesso (Ariodante),  and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare). She has also performed roles like Charlotte (Werther),  Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Princess Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Laura  Adorno (La Gioconda), Alcina (Ruggiero), Lisinga (Le Cinesi), and Néris (Médée).She has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Maurizio  Benini, Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Frizza, Fabio Biondi, Marc Minkowski, Bruno  Campanella, and Christophe Rousset, among others. Additionally, she has worked  under the stage direction of prominent figures such as David McVicar, Valentina  Carrasco, Damiano Michieletto, and Christof Loy.Silvia Tro Santafé is a regular presence on the world’s most prestigious stages, including  the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del  Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, Teatro  alla Scala in Milan, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra de Paris, ABAO Bilbao, Semperoper  Dresden, and theaters in Zurich, Amsterdam, Palermo, Toulouse, Hamburg, Geneva,  Bologna, Washington D.C., Marseille, Genoa, and Moscow, among many others. She  has also participated in festivals such as the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Salzburg,  Baden-Baden, Peralada, Santa Fe, and Las Palmas.The 2024-25 season will feature a strong focus on Donizetti in her schedule. She will  perform the title role in La favorite at ABAO Bilbao, conducted by Riccardo Frizza with  stage direction by Valentina Carrasco; return to Madrid’s Teatro Real to sing Elisabetta  in Maria Stuarda, under the baton of José Miguel Pérez-Sierra and directed by David  McVicar; portray Sara in Roberto Devereux at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia,  conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta in a production by Jetske Mijnssen; and make her  debut as Doña Inés in Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, conducted  by Riccardo Frizza in a concert version.Among the highlights of the season is also the Lamenti recital at La Monnaie in Brussels,  accompanied by the Narratio Quartet, and her solo debut in Prokofiev’s Aleksandr  Nevsky cantata with ADDA Simfònica.Her opera recordings include notable works such as Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira  (Opera Rara), Handel’s Serse (Erato), and Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (Nightingale), as  well as recital discs of bel canto and Spanish songs.