Norma Fantini
Soprano
Norma Fantini has established an extraordinary international career, performing regularly on the world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses including Teatro alla Scala, RHO Covent Garden in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus in Zurich, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Staatsoper in Berlin, Teatro Real in Madrid, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino and Teatro San Carlo di Napoli. Her successful performances as Verdi’s Aida and Puccini’s Tosca and Manon Lescaut gave her the chance to win recognition and awards all across the world like one of the best interpreters of this repertoire, such as the “XXXV Award Puccini” bestowed by the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago for her outstanding performances of Puccini’s operas. She has worked with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Stéphane Denève, Daniele Gatti, Simone Young, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Nello Santi, Pinchas Steinberg, and such directors as Hugo de Ana, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick, Bob Wilson, Franco Zeffirell.
