Donatella de Luca

Donatella de Luca is an Italian lyric soprano, born in Venosa in 1993, who took her diploma at the Conservatory of Potenza in 2016 and went on to the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari with Domenico Colaianni, to the Bel Canto academy in Martina Franca and, from 2020, to lessons with Eva Mei. She made her stage debut in 2015 in Lehár's Die lustige Witwe in Italian theatres, and has since sung Liù in Turandot in Bucharest and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, winning the Francesco Stabile, Corsica Lirica and Tommaso Traetta competitions and, in 2024, first prize at the Giacomo Puccini international competition in Arcore. Chosen for the XXV International Masterclass of Raina Kabaivanska, she sang in its gala concert at the Sofia National Opera on 19 September 2025 under Nayden Todorov.