Мерили Санторо

Pupil of Liliana Marzano at the Francesco Cilea Conservatory in Reggio Calabria and afterwards of Raina Kabaivanska at the Istituto Vecchi-Tonelli in Modena, Marily Santoro made her debut as Violetta at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno in 2015. Her competition results include first prizes at the Santa Gianna Beretta Molla and the Città di Pienza, second at the Spiros Argiris, and the finals of the Toti dal Monte and of the Verdi competition at Busseto. Her stage repertoire since has run from Norma at the Sofia Opera and Leonora in Il trovatore at Trieste to Madama Butterfly in Japan and the Countess back in Livorno, with Monica in Menotti's The Medium in Modena and at Spoleto. In 2019 she toured China with the orchestra of the Puccini Festival, and she has sung in the gala concerts of Kabaivanska's international master classes at the Sofia Opera in 2016 and 2017. Her Norma came in 2017, and she repeated the role at the Teatro Comunale Francesco Cilea in Reggio Calabria, with Trieste following in 2018. She held a scholarship in Kabaivanska's master classes at the New Bulgarian University, and in September 2019 she sang in the Italian première of József Ács’s revision of Leoncavallo's Requiem in Modena.