Barbara Di Castri Mezzo Soprano
Italian mezzo-soprano Barbara di Castri’s most recent and future engagements include the role of FEDERICA Luisa Miller at Teatro Regio in Turin, and MARIA Moïse et Pharaon in Rome conducted by Muti next December.
Italian mezzo-soprano Barbara di Castri’s most recent and future engagements include the role of FEDERICA Luisa Miller at Teatro Regio in Turin, and MARIA Moïse et Pharaon in Rome conducted by Muti next December.
After completing her studies at the Florence Conservatory, Barbara Di Castri rounded out her education with Alberto Zedda at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro. She began her career with a focus on the Baroque repertoire, including Handel’s ORLANDO and OTTONE and parts in Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans, Orlando furioso, La fida ninfa, Tito Manlio and La Senna festeggiante.
She has also been heard in the oratorio repertoire (including Messiah, Pergolesi’s Stabat mater, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle and Stabat mater) and appeared at the major festivals of early music. In recent years, she has gradually added to her repertoire roles such as ROSINA Il barbiere di Siviglia, BARONESSA DI CHAMPIGNY in Nino Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze and KROBYLE in Strauss’ Des Esels Schatten.
She has also appeared as ISAURA Tancredi at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and the Teatro Comunale in Florence, and as KHALED in Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Further engagements include the roles of SUZUKI at Terme di Caracalla in Rome conducted by Renzetti, CLITEMNESTRE Iphigénie en Aulide in Rome with Muti, and MAFFIO ORSINI in Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro Regio di Torino.
Barbara Di Castri he made her role debuts as ARSACE in Semiramide at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and as CARMEN at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, in addition to performances of the title role in L’italiana in Algeri at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon and at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. Other appearances have included LOLA in Cavalleria rusticana at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Rigoletto and Boris Godunov conducted by Daniele Gatti, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the title role of Mascagni’s Zanetto in Livorno, as well as BABA THE TURK in The Rake’s Progress at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2008 in the role of EMILIA in Verdi’s Otello, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Her discography includes works by Boccherini, Cimarosa, Galuppi, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Vivaldi.
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