Biography

Teresa Iervolino is a rising star in the opera world. She has already made her name for herself performing Bel canto roles and baroque operas in many of the great opera houses in the world.

Already as a child she showed an interest in music, so at the age of 8 she began studying piano and later, attracted by opera, she decided to dedicate herself to opera singing, and in 2011 she obtained her singing diploma with top marks and honours.

In 2012, she won the 63rd European Young Opera Singers Competition 2012 ASLICO, which was followed by many other victories in high-profile international competitions such as the Maria Caniglia Competition, the Etta Limiti Prize Competition, etc.

In 2012, she began her ascent to the major Italian and international theatres and opera festivals, making her debut at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. In the same year she made her debut in the role of Isabella in Italiana in Algeri at the Ravenna Festival, a role she later performed also at the Massimo in Palermo and at the Opera Lorraine in Nancy. In 2013 she debuted Tancredi, one of her workhorses, at the Circuito Lombardo and in the same year, in addition to other engagements, she also made her debut at the famous Spoleto Festival as Fidalma in Cimarosa’s Matrimonio Segreto. In 2014 came her double debut at the Rome Opera, as Calbo in Rossini’s Maometto II, followed by her triumph at the Chatelet in Paris as the protagonist in Rossini’s Pietra del Paragone and her debut at the San Carlo in Naples in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. In 2014 she made her debut as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Caracalla Festival of the Rome Opera House, a role she will play many more times, at the same Rome Opera House and with which she will make her debut at the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden in 2016. In 2015, she made her debut in Gazza ladra at the renowned Rossini Opera Festival in the role of Lucia, a role with which she made her debut at La Scala in Milan in 2017. These were followed by her debuts at the Duch National Opera in Amsterdam, La Fenice in Venice, and Opera Frankfurt, always playing leading roles.

In 2016, she made her debut in the title role in Cenerentoladi Rossini at the Teatro Regio di Torino, meeting with great success that led her to perform this role in various Italian and international theatres, and to make her debut as the protagonist at the Opera de Paris in 2017.

In 2017, she made her debut as Maffio Orsini in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, a role she had already performed several times, such as at the ABAO in Bilbao, at the Salzburger Festspiele, a role with which she also made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in spring 2018.

All of this always conducted by great conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Alberto Zedda, Christophe Rousset, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ivor Bolton, Donato Renzetti, Fabio Luisi, Carlo Rizzi, Marc Minkowsky ,Ottavio Dantone, Gabriele Ferro Antonino Fogliani, Riccardo Chally, Daniel Harding, Marco Armiliato, Daniel Oren, etc..

Also worth mentioning is her recording as Rosmira in Handel’s Partenope for Warner Classic Erato with the Orchestra del Pomo D’Oro, the recording of Mozart’s Betulia Liberata in the title role of Judith and Salieri’s Armida in the role of Ismene, both for the Aparté label with the Les TalensLyrique ensemble conducted by Maestro Christophe Rousset, and her presence in the recording of the Messa di Gloria conducted by M. Antonio Pappano with the Accademia di Musica. Antonio Pappano with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for the prestigious Warner Classic label.

The mezzo-soprano from Irpinia still continues her ascent towards a career of high prestige, in fact, among her recent triumphs we find her Rinaldo at the Festival della Valle D’Itria, her triumph with Lucrezia Borgia , with Cenerentola at the Bayerische Staatsoper, her acclaimed Arsace at the Teatro La Fenice in Rossini’s Semiramide, her return again as the protagonist in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans at the Duch National Opera in Amsterdam, her debut as Diana in Cavalli’s Calisto at the Teatro Real in Madrid, her debut in Orlando Furioso at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and her return to the Fenice in Venice with her Rinaldo, her return to Rossini Opera Festival with Equivoco Stravagante and her triumphant debut at the Arena in Verona in Nabucco conducted by Daniel Oren.