The Italian soprano Martina Russomanno began her artistic career at the early age of eleven as an actress and pop singer for Italy’s Disney Channel. From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the Opera Academy of the Paris Opéra, and in 2022 she participated in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival, where she made her debut in Puccini’s Il trittico. Since then, she has regularly appeared at renowned opera houses, and has performed under leading conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Manfred Honeck, Evelino Pidò and Franz Welser-Möst.
In the 2025/26 season she made her role debut as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Stuttgart State Opera, reprising the role in her house debut for Semperoper Dresden, and also sang Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Violetta (La traviata) at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Arena di Verona. Next season she will become an ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Her appearances have also included Violetta at the Opéra national du Rhin, Dircé (Médée) and Bianca (La rondine) at La Scala, Milan, Massenet’s Manon, Susanna and Princesse Eudoxie (La Juive) at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Clorinda (La Cenerentola) and Fortuna and Drusilla (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Paris Opéra, Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and Juliette (Die tote Stadt) at La Monnaie in Brussels. In addition, she has sung Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman, performed in a Rossini gala at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, sung Marzelline (Fidelio) under Gustavo Dudamel in Venezuela, and appeared in the USA in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Martina Russomanno was born in Livorno, where she began her classical singing training. She went on to study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Michèle Crider. She is a prize-winner of several singing competitions, including the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino, the Duschek Competition, the Concorso AsLiCo and the international singing competition Vincerò. In 2022 she won the Cercle Carpeaux Award of the Paris Opéra and in 2023 she won the award ‘Jeune Talent Musique & Vin’. In 2024 she reached the final of the competition ‘Neue Stimmen’, but had to withdraw due to illness.
