Giulia Bolcato

The Italian soprano Giulia Bolcato graduated from her singing studies at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice with distinction.

Her wide-ranging repertory includes Musica and Euridice (L’Orfeo), Amore (Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Aspasia (Alexander Balus), Tusnelda (Arminio), Ilia (Enea in Caonia), Serpina (La serva padrona), Fanny (La cambiale di matrimonio), Sofia (Il signor Bruschino), Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Elvira (L’italiana in Algeri), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Papagena and the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Lisa (La sonnambula), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Norina (Don Pasquale), Lucy (The Telephone) and Mariuccia (I due timidi). She made an acclaimed role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

Giulia Bolcato performs regularly at renowned opera houses and concert halls such as the Teatro La Fenice, the Royal Swedish Opera, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the Fondazione Haydn, the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, the Teatro Sociale Como, the Kodály Centre in Pécs, the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, the Opera på Skäret, the Filharmonia Podkarpacka and the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. She is also a regular guest at international festivals such as the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Göttingen International Handel Festival, the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr in Bochum and the Venice Biennale.

She works with artists such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giancarlo Andretta, Marco Angius, Matteo Beltrami, Alfredo Bernardini, Giampaolo Bisanti, Wiktor Bockman, Roland Böer, Alessandro Cadario, Fabrizio Carminati, Alvise Casellati, Roberto Catalano, Tito Ceccherini, Lorenzo Coladonato, Umberto Finazzi, Jacopo Fo, Marco Gandini, Olivier Lexa, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Mario Martone, Damiano Michieletto, Stefano Montanari, Bepi Morassi, Alessandro Palumbo, Stefania Panighini, Primo Antonio Petris, Alessandra Premoli, Roberto Recchia, Daniela Schiavone, András Schiff, Anna Skryleva, Massimiliano Toni and Ilan Volkov.

Giulia Bolcato is also very committed to performing contemporary music. In this capacity she sang the title role in Matteo Franceschini’s Alice at the Teatro Regio in Parma and includes works by Giorgio Battistelli, Andrea Mannucci, Luca Mosca and Augusta Read Thomas in her repertory. She performed Lilli in Filippo Perocco’s Aquagranda at the Teatro La Fenice; this opera won the special prize at the Premio Franco Abbiati in 2016. In 2017 Giulia Bolcato won the Pietro Antonio Cesti International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera in Innsbruck, and in 2015 she won both the Giovanni Battista Velluti and the Voci Verdiane international singing competitions.