Maria Agresta

Maria Agresta sang Verdi's I vespri siciliani at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 2011 under Gianandrea Noseda, four years after her professional debut. The invitations that followed came from La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra Bastille and the Teatro Real. Her repertoire includes Norma, Mimì, Violetta, Desdemona, Leonora, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Tosca, and Elisabetta in Don Carlo and the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur at La Scala. Italy's music critics gave her the Franco Abbiati prize in 2014, and in 2019 she was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She comes from Vallo della Lucania and trained in Salerno and Modena. Her debut at the Bavarian State Opera came in the 2011-12 season as Mimi in La boheme, and Lucrezia in I due Foscari and Liu in Turandot belong to her repertoire as well. In 2023 she sang Giorgetta in Puccini's Il tabarro in Rome.