Anna Pirozzi - Soprano
Over the last decade, Anna Pirozzi has established herself as the leading Italian dramatic soprano today. Shortly after making her debut in 2012 at the Teatro Regio in Turin as Amelia Un ballo in Maschera, prompting Corriere della Sera to write “an extraordinary dramatic coloratura soprano that in time will be able to place herself in the footsteps of Anita Cerquetti, the greatest dramatic soprano of coloratura from 1945 to today", she was invited to the Salzburg Festival to sing Abigaille Nabucco under the musical direction of Riccardo Muti. This rapturous success quickly led to appearances on the greatest stages in the world: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Opéra de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Arena di Verona, Teatro Real Madrid, San Francisco Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. In summer 2021, she celebrated her 100th performance of Abigaille at the Arena di Verona to huge critical and public acclaim.
Engagements in the 2023-24 season include her role debut as Adriana Lecouvreur at the Opéra de Paris in David McVicar’s production, where she can also be seen as Turandot; Amelia Un Ballo in Maschera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía; the title role of Norma at the Teatro di San Carlo; Abigaille at Wiener Staatsoper; Turandot at Opernhaus Zürich; Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Elisabetta Don Carlo at the Teatro di Modena, Teatro di Piacenza and Teatro Reggio Emilia. Pirozzi also returns to the Greek National Opera for a Maria Callas Centenary gala concert, the Peralada Summer Festival and in a gala concert at the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona.
The previous season saw Pirozzi make a sensational debut as Cherubini’s Medea which launched the Maria Callas Centenary festivities in Athens. She also made her company debuts at Opéra de Paris with a double appearance as Leonora La Forza del Destino and Leonora Il Trovatore and at Opernhaus Zürich as Abigaille Nabucco. Other appearances included Turandot at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and at Teatro Real in Madrid; Il Trovatore in Bilbao; the title role of Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Macbeth at Wiener Staatsoper; and Aida, Tosca and Abigaille at Arena di Verona. Pirozzi appeared in concert at the Teatro Regio di Parma in a Verdi programme conducted by Sebastiano Rolli.
Her many career highlights include: Maddalena di Coigny Andrea Chénier at the San Francisco Opera and in Bilbao and Turin; the title role in Turandot, which she first performed in Israel under the baton of Zubin Mehta; Lucrezia Contarini in I due Foscari at Teatro alla Scala; Leonora Il Trovatore at Royal Opera House and in Turin and Bologna; La Gioconda at Gran Teatre del Liceu; Norma at Teatro de Colon Buenos Aires and in Bilbao; Aida at Arena di Verona and Teatro Real Madrid; Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana at Royal Opera House, Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Le Terme di Caracalla in Rome; Luisa Miller at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Odabella Atilla at Teatro Real; Manon Lescaut in Liege; Queen Elizabeth in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Tosca in Leipzig, Turin and Rome; Elvira Ernani in Rome; Amelia Un ballo in maschera in Parma and Turin; Leonora La forza del destino in Piancenza and Modena; and Imogene Il Pirata at the Opera of Monte Carlo.
Throughout her career, Pirozzi's name has become synonymous with two roles in particular: Lady Macbeth Macbeth which she has performed at Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Sao Paolo, Valencia, Bologna, Cagliari, Palermo, Madrid, Turin and Edinburgh Festival to name a few; and Abigaille Nabucco which she has sung amongst others in Valencia, Beijing, Tel Aviv, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Berlin, Las Palmas, Menorca, Lyon, Paris, Bologna, Florence, Parma, Palermo, Cagliari, Napoli and at Teatro alla Scala.
Born in Naples, the soprano began her vocal studies at the Music Institute of the Valle d'Aosta and perfected her studies at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin. She currently resides in Switzerland together with her husband and two children.
Anna Pirozzi is represented by MWA Management worldwide
