Stefania Bonfadelli Lyric coloratura soprano She was born in the province of Verona. At a very young age she started studying piano and voice singing. She made her debut very young in “Lucia di Lammermoor” conducted by Maurizio Rinaldi in Rieti for the “Mattia Battistini” competition. After her international debut in 1997 with I puritani at the Staatsoper in Vienna, she also sang there the main roles of many opera titles: La Traviata, Rigoletto, La Sonnambula, Romeo and Juliet, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Guillaume Tell, Così fan Tutte, The Barber of Seville and Lucia di Lammermoor. She performed the role of Violetta (La Traviata) at Covent Garden in London, at the Teatro Verdi di Busseto (Placido Domingo conductor, Franco Zeffirelli director), at the Opernhaus in Zurich, at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo, at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, in Munich and in occasion of the tour to Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini of Parma. Her voice brought her to perform in the most important European Opera Houses: the Covent Garden in THE ART OF THE London (La Traviata) , the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata), the Staatsoper in Munich (La Traviata conducted by Zubin Mehta), the Frankfurt Opera (La Traviata and Rigoletto), La Maestranza in Siviglia (La Traviata conducted by Placido Domingo), the Hamburg Opera( Rigoletto) the Opéra de COLORATURA Marseille, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the Opéra in Avignon, the Concertgebouw and the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. She also performed in Washington (La Fille du Régiment) and at the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit. In Italy she FROM THE LATE BAROQUE sang at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari (Rigoletto and Traviata), at the Teatro Carlo Associazione culturale Felice in Genoa (Rigoletto, Die Fledermous, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale), at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Le Comte Ory), at the Teatro Regio & Scuola di Musica TO THE ROMANTICISM in Turin (La Traviata), al the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (La Traviata and Il Convitato di Pietra by Giacomo Tritto), at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (L'Elisir 00169 Rome - Via Casilina, 1101 D'Amore), at Teatro Bellini in Catania (La Sonnambula and I Puritani), at the Teatro ph. + 39 06.2389732 Verdi in Trieste (Lucia di Lammermoor, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Manon by Massenet and La Traviata all conducted by Daniel Oren) and at Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Les www.ariadimusica.com - MASTERCLASS - dialogues des Carmelites conducted by Riccardo Muti and La Sonnambula). She also sang under the batons of Seiji Ozawa and Lorin Mazel.. Among her repertoire: [email protected] Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini’s opera titles (La sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, L’elisir d’amore, Il turco in Italia, Il viaggio a Reims), French opera titles (Massenet’s Manon, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Poulenc’s Les dialogues des Facebook pages: Carmélites, Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann), and main Verdian roles like Gilda Ariadimusica STEFANIA (Rigoletto), Violetta (La traviata), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Nannetta (Falstaff), Amalia (I Masnadieri). She made her debut in the role of Despina in Così fan tutte in Ariadimusica & Cartoons Tokyo (under the baton of Seiji Ozawa) and at the Rossini Opera Festival as Lisetta in La Gazzetta. She returned to the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro in 2003 for BONFADELLI singing in the role of Adèle in Le Comte Ory, under the baton of Lopez Cobos. In this same role, she has been heard in Bologna and Reggio Emilia. Among her performances in 2005-2006 season it’s worth mentioning a Japan tour with Teatro Comunale of Bologna (La fille du régiment), with the Teatro Bellini of Catania (La Sonnambula), and with the Teatro Comunale of Firenze (Falstaff) under the baton of Zubin Mehta, La traviata at the National Opera of Korea in Seoul. She also appears in recital at the Frankfurt Alter Oper and in Montreux taking part in a Christmas Concert with José Cura, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dionne Warwick conducted by Edoardo Ponti. In 2004, after the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice she sang for the New Year’s Eve concert conducted by Lorin Mazel. In 2003 she was awarded with the 'Lina Pagliughi' Prize as best lyric coloratura soprano of the year. From 2006 to 2011 she sang in Tokyo (Nannetta in Falstaff), La fille du régiment and La Sonnambula, La fille du Régiment in Washington, Il signor Bruschino a Wilbad, La Traviata in the Greek Amphitheater in Taormina. She performed the concert in honour of Joan Holender at the Staatsoper in Vienna in 2010 (DVD recording). She made her debut also in new operatic roles like "La primadonna" in Le convenienze teatrali by Donizetti, "La Contessa" in “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart (both at the Teatro Bellini in Catania) and Carolina in "Il matrimonio segreto" by Cimarosa at Teatro Coccia in Novara. She founded together with Laura Polverelli and Nicoletta Olivieri the "Damen trio". They perform many concerts dedicated to Rossini’s chamber music and lieder. Very particular is the performing of arias written by women of the belcanto of the year 1800: Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Pauline Viardot. On June 26, 2016 she will make the direction of Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini at Teatro Argentina in Rome performed by the Ottavio Ziino competition’s winners and in October 2016 Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti in Tenerife with selectioned artists of the Tenerife Ópera Estudio academy. This production will be performed also at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in 2017. 1ST MEETING The coloratura from Paisiello to Mozart Each meeting: 4 day-course Studying the arias of the composers (with particular with répétiteur reference to the trilogy by Da Ponte) presenting similar technical approach, difficulties of long and + clear intervals execution and differences in the Certificate of attendance “semiseria” opera styles. From Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th September 2016 Alternatively: only 1 meeting: € 300 ND 2 MEETING all 5 meetings: € 1.200 The coloratura in Rossini’s operas Technique of the variation and ornaments. From Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th The coloratura December 2016 It is the virtuoso equipment: agility, runs, trills, Concert at the end of the course wide leaps, voice technique, ornaments, etc. at Ariadimusica 3RD MEETING The mastercourse will include 5 meetings (4-day at the presence of important names in the The dramatic coloratura course each) enhancing the knowledge of the art music and culture scene of the coloratura in 5 musical periods analyzing In Bellini and Donizetti the different techniques, the styles and the roles The phrasing in the "comédie larmoyante". The art of the recitativo accompagnato. of composers’ operas. From Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th March 2017 Ariadimusica membership card € 50 ST MEETING 4 The coloratura in Giuseppe Verdi’s operas from the “prison years” to Rigoletto, La Traviata and Il Trovatore. FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION It is also possible to examine operas by EMAIL US AT contemporary composers. [email protected] From Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th May 2017 5ST MEETING The coloratura in the French repertoire From Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th June 2017 .