Giulia Semenzato

Recent highlights include Nanetta (Falstaff) at the Salzburg Festival,  Beijing NCPA, Dido (Dido and Aeneas) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Dorinda (Orlando) at the Teatro Real Madrid and Theater an der Wien, and Ilia (Idomeneo) at Grand Théâtre de Genève. A frequent guest at leading European houses, Semenzato has appeared at Teatro alla Scala (Lucio Silla, La finta Giardiniera, Don Giovanni, Falstaff), Teatro La Fenice (Juditha Triumphans, Ottone in Villa, Don Giovanni), and Royal Ballet & Opera House, Covent Garden (Le nozze di Figaro), Opéra national du Rhin (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Opéra Comique, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival among others.

Equally active on the concert stage, Semenzato has appeared as a soloist in Mozart's Requiem (Naples, Madrid, Cuenca), Fauré's Requiem with Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Handel's Messiah with Collegium 1704 and in Melk under Daniel Harding, Poulenc's Gloria at Teatro Regio Torino and Teatro C.Felice di Genova, and Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo at the Paris Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Berlin Philharmonie. In the 2023/24 season, she also joined Kammerorchester Basel on tour as part of a concert staging of Handel's Tolomeo.

Semenzato collaborates with some of today’s leading conductors including Iván Fischer, Fabio Luisi, René Jacobs, Giovanni Antonini, Raphaël Pichon, Leonardo García Alarcón, Václav Luks, Riccardo Minasi, and Diego Fasolis, as well as stage directors Claus Guth, Christof Loy, Damiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, David McVicar, and Barrie Kosky.

As a recording artist, Semenzato has recorded for the labels Accent, Arcana, Glossa, Harmonia Mundi, CPO, Pentatone. She recently released her first solo album, Angelica Diabolica, with Alpha Classics. She has also held masterclasses for Baroque singing at the University of Arts of Havana in Cuba, as well the SMAV early music courses in Venice. She is currently Professor of Voice  at the early music department of Vienna University of Music and Arts MDW.   

An honours graduate of the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she studied under Rosa Dominguez, Semenzato gained recognition winning top prizes at the Toti dal Monte Competition, Farinelli Award in Bologna, and the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck. Her early career launched with her debut as Elisetta (Il matrimonio segreto) across Treviso, Lucca, Ferrara, and Pisa.

2024/25 season / 389 words. Not to be altered without permission.