Laura Polverelli, born in Siena, after graduating in piano and singing, she perfected her skills at the Accademia Chigiana with Carlo Bergonzi and Alfredo Kraus and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

Throughout his prestigious career he has performed on the most important stages in Italy (Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Florence, Bologna, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Naples, Pesaro, Macerata, Genoa, Palermo, Catania, Verona, Turin, Parma, Trieste, Venice, Stresa, etc.) and internationally (Festivals in Salzburg, Madrid, Glyndebourne, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Baden-Baden, Seattle, Lisbon, La Coruña, Monte-Carlo, Brussels, Chicago, etc.) in a vast repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to Verdi and the French repertoire, passing through Mozart and all the composers of Italian bel canto.

He has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Gary Bertini, Fabio Biondi, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Ottavio Dantone, James Conlon, Sir Colin Davis, Ivan Fischer, Antonino Fogliani, Daniele Gatti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, René Jacobs, Daniel Harding, Andrea Marcon, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Nello Santi, Marcello Viotti, and directors such as Dario Fo, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick.
His discography includes: Donizetti's Maria Stuarda; Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz; Rossini's Il Turco in Italia, Traetta's Antigona; Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Mayerbeer's Il Crociato in Egitto, Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei; Pergolesi's Il Flaminio and La Salustia, Rossini's Le Comte Ory, Verdi's Falstaff, and Massenet's Don Quichotte.

Among her recent engagements: Rossini's Eduardo e Cristina conducted by Gelmetti at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival; Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Harding at the Philharmonie in Paris and, conducted by Fischer, in Budapest, Hong Kong, and Vicenza; Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri (Isabella) and The Barber of Seville (Rosina) at La Fenice in Venice; Rossini's La Cenerentola (Angelina) at the Bellini Theatre in Catania (recorded by Sky Classica HD); and an operatic gala in Catania for the Bellini Renaissance Festival.

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