Giulia Semenzato is an internationally recognized soprano especially for the interpretation of the Baroque and Mozart repertoire.
After graduating with honors from the B. Marcello conservatory in Venice, she then specialized in the Baroque repertoire with Rosa Dominguez at the Schola Cantorum in Basel (Ch).
Winner of the Toti dal Monte di Treviso competition (2012), she made her debut in the role of Elisetta in Cimarosa’s “Il Matrimonio Segreto” in the opera theaters of Treviso, Lucca, Ferrara, Pisa. Winner of the Farinelli award for best baroque voice at the Bologna competition 2013 and at the Cesti-Competition of Innsbruck 2014, she soon undertook an international career that saw her interpreter in the major European theaters and concert halls such as Teatro La Fenice in the Juditha Triumphans and Ottone in Villa by A.Vivaldi’s, at Teatro alla Scala in Lucio Silla (2015), as Zerlina in “Don Giovanni”, Serpetta in “La finta Giardiniera” by W.A.Mozart and Nannetta in “Falstaff” by G.Verdi with Zubin Metha (2017); “Cosi fan tutte” at Opern Zurich, “Die Zauberflöte” at Muscat Opera House, Falstaff at Beijin NCPA. She was Carolina in “Matromonio Segreto” at Innsbruck Festwochen (2016), Michael at Teather an der Wien in “Saul” (2018) and Dorinda in “Orlando” (2019) by Handel; Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Royal Opera House London conducted by Sir. A.Pappano (2022); Mozartwochen and Salzburger Festspiele (Suor Angelica 2022 and Falstaff 2023).
Refined interpreter of the Italian seventeenth and eighteenth-century repertoire, she has sang the role of Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Opera du Rhin, Venere in “Ercole Amante” at the Opera Comique in Paris, Salome in “San Giovanni Battista” by A.Stradella at the Concertgebeuw in Amsterdam; she sang in the main roles in the F.Cavalli operas “Elena” in Aix-en-Provence, Opera Comique, Theatre de Versailles and “Eritrea” at Teatro La Fenice. In concert she has been invited for Mozart’s Requiem (Teatro San Carlo, Madrid, Cuenca), Messiah with Collegium 1704 and Melk Stiftung with D. Harding, Poulenc’s “Gloria” at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Carlo Felice in Genova, “Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo” by Caldara at the Paris Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilarmonie, Freiburg, Berlin Philharmonie. She sang in Sevilla and Martina Franca with a program with Romantic Guitar together with Jadran Duncumb. She regularly collaborates with conductors such as Rene Jacobs, Giovanni Antonini, Raphael Pichon, Alessandro de Marchi, L.G.Alarcon, Vaclav Luks, Riccardo Minasi, D.Fasolis and others. She has worked with stage directors including C.Guth, C.Loy, D.Michieletto, R.Carsen, D.Mc Vicar, B.Kowsky, C.Marthaler, J.Mijnnsen.
She has recorded for the labels Accent, Arcana, Glossa, Harmonia Mundi, Cpo, Pentatone and her first solo album “Angelica Diabolica” for Alpha(Outhere).
She is main creator of projects like “L’Urlo di Armida”, “L’indisciplinata”, “Nulla in mound pax” Cuba)..see Projects.
In 2022 she thought a Masterclass in baroque singing at the University of Arts of Havana – Cuba, and at the SMAV early music courses in Venice.
Since october 2024 she has been professor of historically informed singing at Mdw University in Vienna.
She graduated in a Bachelor in Law at the University of Udine.
Beethoven | Fidelio (Marceline) |
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Cavalli | La Calisto (Calisto) L’Eritrea (Eritrea) Elena (Elena) |
Cesti | Orontea (Silandra) |
Charpentier | Orfeo agli inferi (Euridice) |
Cimarosa | Il matrimonio segreto (Elisetta, Carolina) |
Conti | Don Quichotte en la Sierra Morena (Ordogno) |
De Nebra | Vendado es amor, no es ciego (Anquises) |
Donizetti | Don Pasquale (Norina) L’elisir d’amore (Adina) |
Handel | Agrippina (Poppea) Orlando (Dorinda) Rinaldo (Almirena) Saul (Michael) Tolomeo, re d ‘Egitto (Seleuce) |
Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel) |
Massenet | Werther (Sophie) |
Monteverdi | Orfeo (Euridice) Incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea) |
Mozart | Die Zauberflote (Pamina) Don Giovanni (Zerlina) Idomeneo (Ilia) Il re pastore (Elisa) La Finta Giardiniera (Serpetta) Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) Lucio Silla (Celia) |
Piccini | La Cecchina (Sandrina) |
Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites (Soeur Constance) Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Thérèse) |
Purcell | Dido and Aeneas (Belinda) |
Ravel | L ‘enfant et les Sortilièges (Feu, Le Rossignol) |
Rossi | Orfeo (Venere, Proserpina) |
Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie) Die Fledermaus (Adele) |
Stravinsky | The Rake ‘s Progress (Ann Trulove) |
Verdi | Falstaff (Nanetta) |
Vivaldi | Juditha Triumphans (Abra) – Teatro La Fenice |
Von Weber | Der Freischütz (Ännchen) |
Brahms | Requiem |
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Caldara | Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo |
Falco | Oratorio San Michele |
Faure | Requiem |
Handel | Messiah Il delirio amoroso Trionfo del tempo e del Disingann |
Logroscino | Stabat Mater |
Mendelssohn | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
Monteverdi | Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda |
Mozart | Coronation Mass Esultate Jubilate Mass in C Minor Requiem |
Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
Poulenc | Gloria |
Scarlatti | Davide e Golia |
Stradella Vivaldi | San Giovanni Battista (Salome) Gloria |
Zelenka | Gesù al Calvario |