Source: gmartandmusic
Born in Italy in 1998, the soprano Martina Russomanno began her artistic career from an early age as an actress and pop singer for Disney Channel in Italy. Her classical studies started in Livorno at the age of 14 until in 2017 she joined Michéle Crider’s class at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, where she had the chance to debut Vitellia in 2021 (La Clemenza di Tito). She then joined the Opera Studio of the Paris Opera for 2 years (2021/2023) and she took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival in 2022 which allowed her to debut in Christof Loy’s Il Trittico.
Most recently, Martina made her Violetta debut at the Opera du Rhin, and she already appeared in theaters such as Teatro alla Scala (Dircé in Médée, Bianca in La rondine), Teatro Regio di Torino (Manon by Massenet, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Princesse Eudoxie in La Juive), Opera de Paris (Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Drusilla/Fortuna in L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Rossini Opera Festival (Corinna in Il Viaggio a Reims), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Madama Cortese in Il Viaggio a Reims), Opera de Dijon (Marzelline in Fidelio), la Monnaie/de Munt (Juliette in Die tote Stadt). Her career also landed in Oman at the ROH of Muscat (Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte), in Brazil at the Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo (Rossini Gala), in Venezuela under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel (Marzelline in Fidelio) and in the U.S with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the Heinz Hall (Beethoven 9th).
Upcoming plans include the role debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Semiramide at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at Opera di Roma.
Among the awards Martina has received are prizes in the Portofino International Opera Competition (2020), the Duschek Competition in Prague, the AsLiCo Competition (2021), and the Vincerò Competition (2021). In 2022 she received the Cercle Carpeaux Award at the Opéra de Paris and in 2023 the Jeune Talent Musique & Vin. In 2024 she got to the finals of Neue Stimmen but she had to withdraw due to illness.
