Patrizia Ciofi, born in
Casole d'Elsa, Siena in 1967, is
an Italian
operatic soprano.
She
studied at the Istituto Musicale Pietro
Mascagni in Livorno
, and
subsequently took part in master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana,
Siena, with Carlo Bergonzi
and Shirley Verrett.
She made
her debut in Gino Negri’s Giovanni Sebastiano at the
Teatro Comunale, Florence
, and her
La
Scala
debut in 1997 with La
traviata, conducted by Riccardo
Muti, and she returned to La Scala in L'elisir d'amore in 1997 and
2001. She has sung in most of the major Italian
opera houses as well as the Rossini Festival in Pesaro
and at the
Martina Franca
Festival.
She has
also sung in Paris
, at the
Châtelet
, the Opéra de
Paris and the Théâtre des
Champs-Elysées
, in Lyon
and Marseille
. She made her Covent Garden
debut in 2002 with Rigoletto, her Chicago debut in 2003 with La Traviata
and Wiener Staatsoper debut in 2008 with La
Sonnambula.
Her major roles on stage include Amina in
Vincenzo Bellini's
La sonnambula, Violetta in
Giuseppe Verdi's
La traviata, Gilda in
Rigoletto, Susanna in
Mozart's
Le nozze
di Figaro, and Lucia in
Gaetano Donizetti's
Lucia di Lammermoor (in both the
standard Italian version and the French version
Lucie de
Lammermoor of 1839).
Ciofi has also made a number of recordings, perhaps most notable of
which was the
Le nozze di
Figaro conducted by
René
Jacobs, which won the 2005
Grammy Award for Best
Opera Recording.
Partial discography
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