Biography
Tiziana Carraro graduated in piano and opera singing. She made her debut at the Festival della Valle d’Itria of Martina Franca in 1991 in the role of Aquilio in Farnace by Vivaldi, and was very successful with the public and the critics and she returned several times to sing at the same festival.
In 1994 she won a young opera singer competition by “Amici del Loggione del Teatro Alla Scala”, and also the AsLiCo competition that allowed her to make her debut in the title role of La Diavolessa by Galuppi.
She performed in major Italian and International theatres such as: Arena di Verona (Nabucco 2002/2003/2005, La Gioconda 2005, Rigoletto 2008), Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rigoletto 2006, Carmen 2008), Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (Il Crociato in Egitto 2007, Nabucco 2008), Teatro Massimo di Palermo (Aida 2008), Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova (Nabucco 2010), Sferisterio di Macerata (Don Carlo 2005), Terme di Caracalla (Nabucco 2007), Busseto Verdi Festival (Aida 2001), Teatro de la Pergola di Firenze (Aida 2003), Teatro Verdi di Trieste (Aida 2009), Atene Megaron (Aida 2001), Avenches Festival d'Opera (Il Trovatore 2006), Berlino Deutsche Oper (La Gioconda 2008), Liegi Opera Royal de Wallonie (Mefistofele 2007), Mosca Teatro dell'Operetta (Aida 2005), Strasburgo Festival di Musica (Verdi Requiem 2005), Tel Aviv New Israeli Opera (Don Carlo 2006, La Forza del Destino 2008, La Gioconda 2008) and Bilbao Auditorium Euskalduna (Verdi Requiem 2009).
In 1994 she won a young opera singer competition by “Amici del Loggione del Teatro Alla Scala”, and also the AsLiCo competition that allowed her to make her debut in the title role of La Diavolessa by Galuppi.
She performed in major Italian and International theatres such as: Arena di Verona (Nabucco 2002/2003/2005, La Gioconda 2005, Rigoletto 2008), Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rigoletto 2006, Carmen 2008), Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (Il Crociato in Egitto 2007, Nabucco 2008), Teatro Massimo di Palermo (Aida 2008), Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova (Nabucco 2010), Sferisterio di Macerata (Don Carlo 2005), Terme di Caracalla (Nabucco 2007), Busseto Verdi Festival (Aida 2001), Teatro de la Pergola di Firenze (Aida 2003), Teatro Verdi di Trieste (Aida 2009), Atene Megaron (Aida 2001), Avenches Festival d'Opera (Il Trovatore 2006), Berlino Deutsche Oper (La Gioconda 2008), Liegi Opera Royal de Wallonie (Mefistofele 2007), Mosca Teatro dell'Operetta (Aida 2005), Strasburgo Festival di Musica (Verdi Requiem 2005), Tel Aviv New Israeli Opera (Don Carlo 2006, La Forza del Destino 2008, La Gioconda 2008) and Bilbao Auditorium Euskalduna (Verdi Requiem 2009).
She made her debut in some of the main roles for mezzosoprano such as: Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Trovatore, Eboli in Don Carlo, Fenena in Nabucco, Preziosilla in Forza del Destino, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Laura in Gioconda, Carmen in Carmen, Principessa di Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur, Beppe in Amico Fritz and Felicia in Crociato in Egitto.
She often sings religious music, such as the Requiems by Mozart and Verdi, the IX Symphony by Beethoven, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi and Rossini, Dies Iste and Risurrezione di Lazzaro by Perosi and Juditha Triumphans by Vivaldi.
Some of the conductors the mezzosoprano has worked with are: Bruno Aprea, Maurizio Benini, Daniele Callegari, Bruno Campanella, Angelo Campori, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Frédérich Chaslin, Massimo De Bernart, Romano Gandolfi, Lü Ja, Julian Kovacev, Gustav Kuhn, Alain Lombard, Fabio Luisi, Steven Mercurio, Günter Neuhold, Daniel Oren, Carlo Palleschi, Renato Palumbo, Antonio Pirolli, Stefano Ranzani, Donato Renzetti, Corrado Rovaris, Nello Santi, Massimiliano Stefanelli, Roberto Tolomelli, Marcello Viotti, Ralf Weikert and Alberto Zedda.
She performed under the guidance of directors such as: Daniele Abbado, Elisabetta Brusa, Enrico Castiglione, Giancarlo Cobelli, Hugo De Ana, Beppe De Tommasi, Massimo Gasparon, Jean Louis Grindà, Gino Landi, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Lorenzo Mariani, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Pier Luigi Pizzi and Franco Zeffirelli.
She recorded the DVD of La Forza del Destino, Le Nozze di Figaro and Thais. For Nuova Era she recorded the CD of Farnace by Antonio Vivaldi and for OPUS 111 Juditha Triumphans by Antonio Vivaldi.