Soprano
Biography
Renata Tebaldi was among those who taught her, and Richard Bonynge, Regina Resnik and Peter Maag led courses she attended. Chiara Taigi was born in Rome, studied with Ivenza Fogli, earned a diploma in lyric singing, and performed Italian repertoire: Aida, Tosca, Turandot, Un ballo in maschera, Otello and Manon Lescaut, with appearances at La Scala, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the San Carlo, and on stages well beyond Italy. For Decca she recorded under Riccardo Chailly in Puccini Discoveries, the disc that gathered the composer's unpublished and occasional pieces. Her concert repertoire includes sacred music. In 2021 the Renata Tebaldi Foundation gave her its Vissi d'arte prize. La traviata and Andrea Chenier belong to her repertoire as well, she has sung abroad in Zurich and Dresden, and her conductors have included Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti and Zubin Mehta.