The Italian Soprano Silvia Frigato studied voice and piano at the Adria Conservatory in Modena and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She specialized in early music, taking courses with Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo, and Lorenzo Ghielmi. After winning the Concorso di canto barocco Francesco Provençal Competition in 2007, she worked with such conducers as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Ottavio Dantone, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herrweghe, and Sigiswald Kuijken. Silvia Frigato has performed the title role in Caccini’s L’Euridice at the Innsbrucker Festwochen and sang in Monteverdi’s Poppea at La Scala in Milan. Other credits include Gluck’s Orfeo and Debussy’s Pelléas at the Maggio Musicale in Florence (with Daniele Gatti conducting) and Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis at the Salzburg Festival, under the direction of Václav Luks. She appeared at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2016 as Martinů’s Mirandolina.

April 2017