Laura Giordano

Laura Giordano (born 9 June 1979 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian lyric soprano.
Life and career.
Born in Palermo, Laura Giordano made her operatic debut at a very young age in "Noye's Fludde" by Britten. She went on to sing in numerous opera houses and festivals in Europe, Asia and North and South America, including Teatro alla Scala, the Salzburg Festival, Opéra National de Paris, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico.
The core of Giordano's repertory is formed by roles in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi, Mozart and Puccini. Her Donizetti roles include Norina ("Don Pasquale") performed with Riccardo Muti at the Ravenna Festival, at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, in Liège, Cologne, Como, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and in further performances in Santiago de Chile, Treviso, at [[Teatro Massimo Bellini]] in Catania, and in Ferrara; Adina ("[[L'elisir d'amore]]") in Las Palmas, Tel Aviv, Maribor and Oderzo; Marie ("[[La fille du régiment]]") at [[Teatro Massimo]] in Palermo, in Lecce, and on a tour with [[Teatro Comunale di Bologna]] at the [[Savonlinna Opera Festival]]; and Betly ("[[Betly]]") at [[Konzerthaus Berlin|Konzerthaus]] in [[Berlin]].
Her performances in Verdi's operas include "[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]" (Nannetta) in Milan conducted by Riccardo Muti, and in Strasbourg, Rome, Brussels, Lyon, at the Santa Fe Opera, at [[Teatro Regio di Torino]], and at [[Berwaldhallen]] in Stockholm; "[[Rigoletto]]" (Gilda) at [[Seoul Arts Center]], and in Fano and Ancona; "[[Un ballo in maschera]]" (Oscar) conducted by [[Antonio Pappano]] at [[Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia]], under the baton of [[Valery Gergiev]] at Teatro Regio di Parma, and in Nice and Trieste; and "[[Don Carlo]]" (Tebaldo) conducted by [[Zubin Mehta]] at [[Maggio Musicale Fiorentino]].
Amongst her Mozart roles are Pamina ("[[The Magic Flute|Die Zauberflöte]]") in Palermo; Donna Anna ("[[Don Giovanni]]") in Palermo, in Fano, and at Piccolo Festival FVG; Susanna ("[[Le nozze di Figaro]]") at [[Teatro Regio di Parma]], [[Semperoper]] in Dresden [[Teatro Carlo Felice]] in Genoa, and in Reggio Emilia; Zerlina ("Don Giovanni") at [[Zürich Opera House|Opernhaus Zürich]]; Despina ("[[Così fan tutte]]") in Palermo, Catania and Zürich; and Barbarina ("Le nozze di Figaro") at [[Opéra Bastille]] in Paris.
She sang Musetta in Puccini's "[[La bohème]]" multiple times, including performances at Teatro alla Scala, [[Teatro Real]] in Madrid, in Catania, and at [[Opéra Royal de Wallonie]]. She has also sung Lauretta in Puccini's "[[Gianni Schicchi]]" in a performance in Lisbon.
Giordano's first Bellini role was Elvira in "[[I puritani]]" at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.
Her other significant roles, several of them in rarely performed operas, have been: Livietta ("[[Il ritorno di Don Calandrino]]") conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival, in Ravenna, in Las Palmas in Pisa, and in Piacenza; Corinna ("[[Il viaggio a Reims]]") in Pesaro, at Teatro Real de Madrid and at the [[Rossini in Wildbad]] opera festival; Coraline ("[[Le toréador]]") in Palermo; Carolina ("[[Il matrimonio segreto]]") at [[Théâtre des Champs-Elysées]] in Paris, the [[Barbican Centre]] in London, and in Palermo; Donna Fulvia ("[[La pietra del paragone]]") at [[Théâtre du Châtelet]] in Paris; Elena ("[[Il cappello di paglia di Firenze]]") at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Sylvie ("[[La colombe]]") at the [[Accademia Musicale Chigiana]]; Vi ("[[Blue Monday (opera)|Blue Monday]]") at the [[Teatro Nacional de São Carlos]] in Lisbon; and Aminta ("[[L'Olimpiade (Vivaldi)|L'Olimpiade]]") at [[Festival de Beaune]].
Giordano has performed as a soloist in "[[Mozart's Requiem]]" at [[Archbasilica of St. John Lateran|St. John in the Lateran]]; Rossini's "[[Stabat Mater (Rossini)|Stabat Mater]]" in Palermo; Poulenc's "[[Stabat Mater (Poulenc)|Stabat Mater]]" in Palermo; Schubert's [[Mass No. 6 (Schubert)|"Mass No. 6"]] at Festival de Saint-Denis; Mozart's "[[Coronation Mass (Mozart)|Krönungsmesse]]" at the Mozart Festival in La Coruña; Mahler's [[Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)|"Symphony No. 4"]] in Kazan; and Orff's "[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]" at in Pavia, in Ravenna, and at the [[Baths of Caracalla]] in Rome.
In 2010 Giordano appeared as a guest artist in [[Roberto Alagna|Roberto Alagna's]] concert at dedicated to [[Luis Mariano]]. In 2014 she took part in the TV show ' hosted on [[Rai 1]] by [[Enrico Brignano]], performing excerpts from "Rigoletto" and "La traviata", and also made an appearance in the show ' as a vocal coach of [[Karin Proia]]. Moreover, the same year Giordano made her debut as an actress in her first movie, "Laurus Nobilis".
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