Biography

Daniela Barcellona was born in Trieste, Italy, where she completed her musical and vocal studies under the direction of M° Alessandro Vitiello. After winning awards in several international competitions, including the "Aldo Belli" in Spoleto, the "Iris Adami Corradetti" in Padua and the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition in Philadelphia, her career had an explosive start in Summer, 1999, with her performance as Tancredi at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro: since then she has been considered one of the most important and sought-after interpreters at the international level.

In Italy, she received repeated ovations at La Scala in Milan (Lucrezia Borgia, Iphigénie en Aulide, Christmas concerts) where she inaugurated the historic reopening on December 7, 2004, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Tancredi, La donna del lago, Semiramide, belcanto concerts), at the Opera Theater in Rome (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La fiamma, Cenerentola, L'italiana in Algeri, Tancredi, Semiramide), at the Municipal Theater in Bologna (Giulio Cesare) and in Florence (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tancredi), at the Santa Cecilia Academy (Verdi's Requiem, Petite Messe Solennelle, concerts) and at the "Festival dei due mondi" in Spoleto (concert), at the Arena and at the Philarmonic Theater in Verona (in Verdi's Requiem and L'italiana in Algeri respectively), at the Regio Theater in Parma (Norma) and at the San Carlo in Naples (Anna Bolena), at Carlo Felice in Genoa (Cenerentola, Verdi's Requiem), at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Stabat Mater), at the Verdi Theater in Trieste (Simone Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia, Tancredi) and the Pergolesi Theater in Jesi (Orfeo ed Euridice), to mention just a few.

Internationally, she was the guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker (Verdi's Requiem, concerts) and of the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra (Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice), the London Symphony Orchestra (Berlioz' Roméo et Juliette), the Metropolitan in New York (inauguration gala, Norma), the Opéra in Paris (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (L'italiana in Algeri), the Teatro Real in Madrid (Semiramide), the Staatsoper in Wien (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), the Grand Théâtre in Geneva (Semiramide) and the Concertgebow in Amsterdam (Puccini's Triptych, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis), the Semperoper in Dresden (Verdi's Requiem and Rossini Gala), the Quincena Musical in San Sebastián (La Donna del lago, Recital), the "Radio France et Montpellier" Festival (La donna del lago), the lyrical season in Las Palmas (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, La favorite) and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Lièges (La donna del lago).

She has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Riccardo Muti, James Levine, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Chailly, George Pretre, Bruno Campanella, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Myun-wun Chung and Alberto Zedda. Among her most significant awards, we should mention the Abbiati Award (the Italian critics' prize), the "Lucia Valentini-Terrani" and the "Aureliano Pertile" awards, the 2002 Opera Award, the "CD Classica" Award and the "Rossini d'oro" (awarded for a third time to a mezzosoprano, after Marilyn Horne and Lucia Valentini-Terrani).

Her future schedule will see her on the stages of major opera houses worldwide (Milan, Pesaro, Rome, Wien, New York, Barcelona, Turin, London, Genoa, Bilbao, Naples, Florence, Sydney, Tokyo, Dresden, Munich), where she will perform in new productions, symphonic concerts and recitals.