The young mezzo-soprano Caterina Piva began her artistic training in the spoken theatre and in 2009 graduated with a degree in acting from the Teatro Carcano in Milan before completing her singing studies at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 2017. In 2018 she won the Emerging Voices category in the international singing competition AsLiCo in Milan, following which she appeared as Meg Page (Falstaff) at several opera houses in Lombardy, and as Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi) and Mercédès (Carmen) in Las Palmas. She graduated from the Opera Academy of La Scala, Milan, where she made her debut in 2019 as Annina (La traviata) under Myung-Whun Chung. At La Scala she has also sung Ciesca in a production by Woody Allen under the musical direction of Adam Fischer, Maddalena (Rigoletto) under Daniel Oren and in a gala with Plácido Domingo.
At the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence she has sung Fenena (Nabucco), Maddalena, Nikona in Giordano’s Siberia, Flora (La traviata), Meg Page and Emilia (Otello) under conductors including Zubin Mehta, John Eliot Gardiner, Gianandrea Noseda, Riccardo Frizza and Paolo Carignani. She has also performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa as Maddalena. At the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona she has performed the role of Lucilla (La scala di seta). In summer 2022 Caterina Piva made her Salzburg Festival debut as Ciesca and Mistress of the Novices in Il trittico under Franz Welser-Möst.
In the 2022/23 season she has appeared at La Scala as Dimitri in a new production of Fedora under Marco Armiliato, and returned to the Teatro Carlo Felice as Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), and to the Teatro San Carlo as Smeton (Anna Bolena).
Future engagements include Charlotte (Werther) and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) in Genoa, Fenena (Nabucco) at the Verdi Festival in Fidenza and Eboli (Don Carlo) at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.
