Saverio Clemente Andrea De Amici Luca Targetti
Lilly Jørsyad is a Norwegian mezzo-soprano born in Astrakhan, Russia. She starts singing folk music at the age of 4 and at the age of 16 she enrolls at the Astrakhan Conservatory. She later on moves to Norway but maintains her connection with Russia anyway.
Winner of several prizes, she starts her Master Degree studies at the University of Tromsø in 2010 with Anne-Lise Sollied Allemano and Carlo Allemano. She partecipates in master classes with such singers as Luciana Serra, Luciana D'Intino, Renato Bruson, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondi.
Lilly Jørsyad participates to numerous festivals like: Kirsten Flagstad Fetsival, International Shalyapi Opera Festival, Rossini Opera Festival for young singers, Barents Festival, Pomorfestival, Tromsø opera festival, Oslo opera Festival, International Church Festival in Tromsø and Nordlysfestivalen. She is also an oratorio singer and performing in the major churches in Norway, including the Ishavskatedralen in Tromsø.
In the summer 2012, she partakes in the Academia Rossiniana in Pesaro, and debuts in two Rossini's roles from Il viaggio a Reims (Marchesa Melibea and Modestina), under the baton of Alberto Zedda. The same year she’s a soloist at the Mariinsky Academy in St.Petersburg, Russia.
She starts the Master Degree studies at Conservatorio di musica Luigi Cherubini with Gianni Fabbrini in 2013; later on she wins a role in the next Lilly Jørstad Cenerentola production at Quarto Concorso Lirico Internazionale Città di Mezzosoprano Ferrara debuting at Teatro Comunale in Ferrara as Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola in 2014. She wins the III Prize in Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico Giacinto Prandelli and she sings Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia under the baton of Mauro Perissinotto in Castello Estense in Ferrara.
She enters to La Scala Academy, where she has the chance to performe Angelina again in a La Cenerentola production for children; at the same time she also gives concerts under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Stefano Ranzani, Giuseppe Finzi, Nayer Nagui, Pietro Mianiti in Milan, Abu Dhabi and in Egypt.
She mades her debut at La Scala singing Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia in 2015 under the baton of Massimo Zanetti, directing by Jean- Pierre Ponnelle and being on stage with Leo Nucci as Figaro and Ruggero Raimondi as Don Basilio. After having been selected at the Ziino Competition she has been Rosina at Teatro Argentina in Rome. Among her next engagements, again Angelina at la Scala, Concerts in Norway, Rosina in Bergen and Meg in a Falstaff new production at the Wiener Staatsoper under Zubin Mehta.
December 2015
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