The Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Maria Chiuri studied at the Boito Conservatory in Parma before perfecting her technique with Franco Corelli. She is now one of the most sought-after mezzo-sopranos in the Italian, German and French repertoire, appearing regularly at leading opera houses both in Italy and abroad.
Her repertoire is extremely wide-ranging. She has sung Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Eboli in Don Carlos at the Teatro Regio in Turin (conductor: Gianandrea Noseda) and at La Scala (conductor: Fabio Luisi), Klytämnestra in Elektra (conductor: Gustav Kuhn), Herodias in Salome in Bolzano, Modena, Ferrara and Piacenza (conductor: Nikša Bareza), Amneris in Aida (conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni), Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (conductor: Massimo Zanetti) and at the National Centre of the Performing Arts in Beijing, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff at a concert performance in Tel Aviv (conductor: Zubin Mehta), Azucena in Il trovatore at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (conductor: Zubin Mehta), the Princess de Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Preziosilla in La forza del destino at the Macerata Opera Festival, and Frugola, the Princess and Zita in Puccini’s Il trittico at La Scala (conductor: Riccardo Chailly).
Most recently, Anna Maria Chiuri has sung Barbara in Korngold’s Violanta in Turin, Eboli at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, and Amneris at the Arena di Verona. She last appeared at the Salzburg Festival as Herodias in the new production of Salome conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. Her upcoming engagements include Leonora in La favorita in Piacenza and Parma, Ulrica at the Festival Verdi in Parma, and Ortrud in Lohengrin at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
Anna Maria Chiuri has enjoyed many successes on the concert platform: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center and at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Verdi’s Requiem at the Rudolfinum in Prague and in Washington, DC, Bruckner’s Te Deum at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (conductor: Zubin Mehta), Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Teatro Regio in Parma (conductor: Yuri Temirkanov), and Mozart’s Requiem in Florence (conductor: Zubin Mehta).
Anna Maria Chiuri can be seen on DVD in live recordings of Un ballo in mascherafrom both the Leipzig Opera (conductor: Riccardo Chailly) and the Teatro Regio in Parma, as well as Il trittico from La Scala. In 2020 she also performed La Madre in a recording of Luigi Dallapiccola‘s Il prigioniero conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
