Eleonora Filipponi

At the end of Raina Kabaivanska's masterclass in September 2019, Eleonora Filipponi appeared in the gala given in Sofia on the 29th, with the orchestra of the Sofia National Opera and alongside Daniela Nineva, Daniel Kim, Eva Jeong and Giuseppe Infantino. Born in Crema in 1992, she came to singing from piano and choral music, studied with Roberto Quintarelli and Nadiya Petrenko and graduated from the Claudio Monteverdi institute in Cremona in 2018, having also taken a degree in foreign languages and literature at the Catholic University of Milan. The Sofia scholarship of 2019 was followed by a place in the opera school of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and her parts have included Carmen, Dorabella, Maddalena, Suzuki and Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi; she reached the semifinal of the Éva Marton competition in 2022.