Ясуко Сато

Bound above all to Cio-Cio-San, Yasko Sato has sung the part in Seattle, Vancouver, Atlanta, Liège, Florence, Parma, Bari, Tokyo, Athens, Ljubljana and Tallinn, and has published research on the way the character alters across the opera's revisions. She graduated top of her year from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and took master's and doctoral degrees there with the highest distinction, continuing in Italy with Raina Kabaivanska and attending her master classes at New Bulgarian University and the Vecchi-Tonelli Institute in Modena. First prize and the audience prize at the Music Competition of Japan, first prize and a special prize at the Jaume Aragall competition and a distinction at the Toti Dal Monte for Cio-Cio-San came before her debut in 2005, as Leonora in Oberto on the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto's Japanese tour. Mimì, Leonora in Il trovatore, Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi, Tosca, Nedda and Aida have followed.