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A winner of several music competitions, she made her debut in 2007 in Spoleto in the role of Mimì in La Bohème by G. Puccini and as Leonora in Il Trovatore (G. Verdi). Between 2008 and 2009 she made her debut in the role of Micaela in Carmen by G. Bizet at Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina and in the role of Desdemona in Otello (G.Verdi) with Renato Bruson as Jago, and after this debut she was invited in 2010 to sing as Desdemona also at Opera national de Lorraine (Nancy, France). In the same year she made her debut in the role of Odabella in Verdi’s Attila at Teatro Lauro Rossi in Macerata (Sferisterio Opera Festival) under the baton of Riccardo Frizza. She appeared at Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto, at Carnegie Hall of New York, Union League of Philadelphia, Festival Barokkimusiikkia of Helsinki, Doha National Philarmonic (Qatar), Hermitage Theatre of St. Petersburg, Enescu Hall of Bucarest, Sibiu Philarmonic Hall (Romania), Baku Philarmonic Hall (Azerbaijan),Incheon Opera festival (South Korea). She performed with great success I Vespri Siciliani at Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and Norma in Tel Aviv. She then sang La

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A winner of several music competitions, she made her debut in 2007 in Spoleto in the role of Mimì in La Bohème by G. Puccini and as Leonora in Il Trovatore (G. Verdi). Between 2008 and 2009 she made her debut in the role of Micaela in Carmen by G. Bizet at Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina and in the role of Desdemona in Otello (G.Verdi) with Renato Bruson as Jago, and after this debut she was invited in 2010 to sing as Desdemona also at Opera national de Lorraine (Nancy, France). In the same year she made her debut in the role of Odabella in Verdi’s Attila at Teatro Lauro Rossi in Macerata (Sferisterio Opera Festival) under the baton of Riccardo Frizza.
She appeared at Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto, at Carnegie Hall of New York, Union League of Philadelphia, Festival Barokkimusiikkia of Helsinki, Doha National Philarmonic (Qatar), Hermitage Theatre of St. Petersburg, Enescu Hall of Bucarest, Sibiu Philarmonic Hall (Romania), Baku Philarmonic Hall (Azerbaijan),Incheon Opera festival (South Korea).

She performed with great success I Vespri Siciliani at Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and Norma in Tel Aviv. She then sang La Bohème at Arena di Verona and in Munich, Gemma di Vergy at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, Il Trovatore in Salerno, Don Giovanni at La Scala, with great reviews from public and critics.
Most recently she sang La bohème in Turin and La traviata in Salerno, where she obtained a big personal success.

Future engagements include: Oberto conte di San Bonifacio at La Scala, La Bohème at Opera Bastille in Paris and Seattle, Il Trovatore (new production) at Wiener Festwochen conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, Simon Boccanegra (new production) conducted by Maestro Thielemann in Dresden, Otello in Zurich, I due Foscari in Wien, Adriana Lecouvreur in Frankfurt, Il Trovatore in Valencia under the baton of Maestro Mehta.

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Reviews

"Bergamo had an outstanding interpreter of the title role in Maria Agresta, whose full, iridescent soprano dealt handily with the music’s demands for bel canto gracefulness as well as for Verdi-like fervor, offering some beautiful pianissimos along the way. "

George Loomis, The New York Times