Interpreter of lyrical repertoire with a consolidated presence in the main European and international opera houses
Martina Russomanno is an Italian soprano born in 1998. Her artistic career is distinguished by her early training and the rapid progression to the world's leading opera stages. Before undertaking classical studies, she gained initial artistic experience as an actress and pop singer for Disney Channel Italy. Her inclination toward the operatic repertoire began at the age of fourteen, when she began her studies at the Livorno Conservatory.
In 2017 she entered Michéle Crider's class at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In 2021 she made her role debut as Vitellia in The clemency of Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the same year he won prizes at the AsLiCo Competition, the Vincerò Competition, the Portofino International Opera Competition (2020), and the Duschek Competition in Prague.
Between 2021 and 2023 he attended the Opera Studio of the Opéra national de Paris. In 2022 he participated in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburger Festspiele, making his debut in Triptych Puccini directed by Christof Loy, and received the Prix du Cercle Carpeaux from the Paris Opera. In 2023, she was awarded the Jeune Talent Musique & Vin prize.
Among the most significant roles played are: Dircé in Médée of Cherubini and Bianca in The swallow by Puccini at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Manon in the opera of the same name by Massenet, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro of Mozart and Princesse Eudoxie ne The Juive by Halévy at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Clorinda ne Cinderella and Drusilla/Fortuna The Coronation of Poppea at the Opéra national de Paris; Corinna and Madama Cortese The journey to Reims by Rossini at the Rossini Opera Festival and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin respectively; Marzelline in Fidelio by Beethoven at the Opéra de Dijon; Juliette ne The whole city by Korngold at the Royal Theater de La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels.
International activity includes her debut at the Royal Opera House in Muscat as Fiordiligi in So do all of them Mozart, a Rossini gala at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, the performance of the Fidelio in Venezuela under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh.
Among her upcoming engagements is her debut in the role of Violetta Valéry in The Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi at the Verona Arena, as part of the 2026 season of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, under the baton of Michele Spotti and directed by Paul Curran.