Born in Palermo, Adriana di Paola graduated in singing at the Trapani Conservatoire. She attended the Accademia di
Santa Cecilia in Rome with Renata Scotto and she has furthered her studies
under the guidance of Simone Alaimo, then she was admitted at the Young Singers Project at the
Salzburg Festival performing in Carmen, Giulio Cesare and Die
Zauberflöte production. She distinguished herself in important
international competitions,winning the third prize at
the “Ottavio Ziino” International Contest in Rome and the second prize and the
special prize "Musa" at the International Sacred Music Competition. She made her debut when still a child in 1998 in
Giordano’s Fedora in Palermo, followed by Menotti’s Amahl e i Visitatori Notturni ( title
role), Britten’s L’Arca di Noè and Cherubino in Le Nozze
di Figaro.
Among her most notable past engagements: Zita in Gianni Schicchi and
in Il Viaggio a Reims, conducted by Kent Nagano at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome; I Vespri Siciliani (Ninetta) , La Forza
del Destino (Curra) conducted by
Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Regio in Parma; Menotti’s Amelia al Ballo (L’Amica)
at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; Il Viaggio a Reims
(Melibea) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Brahms’s
Alto Rhapsody and Debussy’s La damoiselle élue in Cagliari; Rigoletto (Maddalena) at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia; Ariadne auf Naxos (Dryade) at the
Glyndebourne Festival, Vladimir Jurowski conducting (filmed in DVD); Handel’s Giulio
Cesare (Cornelia) in Klagenfurt; I Vespri Siciliani at the
Teatro Real in Madrid; Die Zauberfloete (Dritte Dame) in
Bari; Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress) in Florence, Stefano
Montanari conducting. She made her successful debut at the Teatro alla Scala
singing L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Arnalta) in a new production by
Robert Wilson conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, she then performed
Rota's Mysterium in Bari; La Cenerentola
in Bremen and Rieti.
Active also on the concert side she starred in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in
Jerusalem (broadcasted by the RAI TV) then in Bozen and
Trento, together with Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Haydn
under Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Rome (Accademia di
Santa Cecilia and at the Teatro Nazionale); Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Orquesta Sinfónica de
Euskadi in San Sebastian and on tour in Spain; Rossini’s Petite
Messe Solennelle and a all-Brahms concert at the Accademia
di Santa Cecilia in Rome, both led by Antonio Pappano from the piano; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
and in Saarbrücken (in a staged version); Mozart’s Requiem at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples; Beethoven’s Symphony n.9 at the Accademia
Nazione di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Rieti with
Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi while in Genéve with the Geneva Camerata; Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in Rome, L’Aquila and in Montepulciano; Logroscino’s Stabat Mater at the Trigonale
Festival, her repertoire include also
Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir, Gloria and Stabat Mater; Betta’s Lettere di Guerra e di Morte; Scarlatti’s Messa
di Santa Cecilia.
Most
recently she took part in Händel’s Silla (Claudio) at Palau de Les Arts in Valencia with Fabio
Biondi; Händel’s Aci,
Galatea e Polifemo, De Falla’s Le siete cançiones populares, Dvorak’s Zigeunermelodien
and Petite messe solennelle in Naples; La Cenerentola (Tisbe) in
Ancona; Dritte Dame in Die Zauberfloete and Carmen (Mercedes) in Macerata (Sferisterio Opera
Festival); Clementi's Rapsodia in Palermo; L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Kiel; Falstaff, Manon Lescaut, Dido and Aeneas in Palermo; Dritte Dame in Die Zauberfloete at the San Carlo in Naples; Liederabend in Rome; Vivaldi's Gloria in Verona; Ariadne auf Naxos in Bologna; Scarlatti's Il cambise (title role) in Kiel.
Plans include: Rossini's Otello in Pesaro; Pulcinella at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; The Rake's progress in Florence.
May 2022