Giulia Semenzato

Giulia Semenzato is an internationally well-known soprano, especially in Baroque and Mozart repertory. She made her debut in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. Since then her career has taken her to international opera houses such as La Scala, Milan, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Zurich Opera House, the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and to concert halls such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. She has been invited to perform at festivals including the George Enescu Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Salzburg Festival, where she most recently appeared in Suor Angelica and Falstaff.

Highlights of 2023/24 included Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) at the Bavarian State Opera, Dorinda (Orlando) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Idomeneo at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista at the Festival Castell de Peralada and Fauré’s Requiem with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under Paavo Järvi.

Her operatic repertory includes roles such as Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Almirena (Rinaldo) and  the title roles in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Cavalli’s Elena and Eritrea, as well as Nino Rota’s I due timidi.

Among the eminent conductors and directors with whom she has worked are Giovanni Antonini, Diego Fasolis, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Christopher Moulds, Riccardo Muti, Raphaël Pichon, Daniele Rustioni and Keri-Lynn Wilson, and Robert Carsen, Claus Guth, Barrie Kosky, Christoph Marthaler, David McVicar, Damiano Michieletto and Jetske Mijnssen. In 2016 she released her debut album Sospiri d’amore, and in 2022 she released Angelica Diabolica with the Basel Chamber Orchestra. She can also be heard in recordings of Handel’s Messiah under Václav Luks and in settings of the Stabat Mater by Logroscino and Pergolesi.

Giulia Semenzato studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. She received awards at the Toti dal Monte International Singing Competition in Treviso, at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale Città di Bologna and at the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck.