Annunziata Vestri

INTRODUCTION

Winner of several singing competitions, including Spoleto, Battistini, Toti Dal Monte, Barbieri, and a finalist at Operalia and Francisco Viñas, mezzo-soprano Annunziata Vestri is an artist with a wide and heterogeneous voice combined with strong acting skills. Her repertoire ranges from dramatic and verismo to buffo and character roles.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

Recently, Annunziata Vestri performed at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 2024, she returned to Turin, singing the roles of Frugola in Il Tabarro and Suor Zelatrice in Suor Angelica. Additionally, she made her China debut in Shanghai as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. In the autumn, she portrayed La Memoria in the world premiere of Silvia Colasanti’s L’Ultimo Viaggio di Sindbad at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

In 2025, Annunziata Vestri performed as Gertrude in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette at Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, La Badessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Trittico recomposed) at Opera di Roma, Mamma Lucia in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana – a Piazza San Marco production of La Fenice di Venezia, and a soloist in Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace at the MITO SettembreMusica festival with the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio Torino.

Upcoming highlights include the role of Ines in Verdi’s Il Trovatore at Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

BIOGRAPHY

Annunziata Vestri began studying singing and piano at a very young age, perfecting herself under the guidance of artists such as Renata Scotto, Regina Resnik, Daniela Dessi, Renato Bruson, and Mirella Freni.

She made her debut in 2003 as Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), followed by roles such as Carmen (Carmen), Maddalena (Rigoletto) Azucena (Il Trovatore), Amneris (Aida), Preziosilla (La forza del destino), Fenena (Nabucco), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Quickly (Falstaff), Margherita (Guglielmo Ratcliff), Rosa Mamai (L’Arlesiana), La frugola (Il Tabarro), Zia Principessa (Suor Angelica), Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Irene (Belisario), Tancredi and Isaura (Tancredi), Neris (Medea), Madelon (Andrea Chenier), Marquise de Berkenfield (La fille du regiment) in theaters such as San Carlo in Naples, Regio of Turin, Regio of Parma, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Carlo Felice in Genoa, Massimo in Palermo, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Comunale in Bologna, Petruzzelli in Bari, Donizetti in Bergamo, Macerata Opera Festival, among others, in Italy, and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Nice, Festival St. Margarethen (Vienna), Wexford Opera Festival, Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, Tatar State Opera and The Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, abroad.

Worthy of note, for the success of audiences and critics, her interpretation of the role of Rosa Mamai at the Wexford Festival, of Carmen at the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa, that of Tisbe in the Film Cinderella “A live fairy tale”, worldwide, directed by Carlo Verdone and directed by M. Gianluigi Gelmetti and La Vecchia Madelon (Andrea Chénier) at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, directed by M. Nello Santi and in August 2020 as Suzuky at the 66 ° Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago conducted by Enrico Calesso and directed by Manu Lalli.

In concert, she has performed in works such as Handel’s Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, as well as Pergolesi’s and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. In 2025, she will also perform in Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana at the Settimana Sacra in Monreale.

Her recordings include: Belisario by G. Donizetti (Bongiovanni), Arlesiana by F. Cilea (Dynamic), Cenerentola by G. Rossini (RAI), and Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini (Mejor).

She has worked with conductors such as Z. Mehta, R. Frizza, D. Renzetti, G. Gelmetti, B. Campanella, C. Rovaris, D. Callegari, E. Pidò, N. Santi, D. Rustioni, D. Pascal, L. Gilgore, M. Tardue, G. Bisanti, J. Delacôte, P. Steinberg, and A. Battistoni, as well as with directors such as D. Livermore, C. Verdone, F. Ozpetek, P. Pizzi, H. de Ana, A. Pizzech, G. Pressburger, H. Brockhaus, S. Vizioli, Y. Kokkos, F. Ceresa, R. Panerai, M. Gandini, C. Bieito, L. Pugelli, and T. Strassberger.