Patrizia Ciofi
Patrizia Ciofi studied under the supervision of Anastasia Tomashevskaya in Siena and Livorno. In 1989, she graduated from the Livorno Conservatoire. She participated in masterclasses held by Carlo Bergonzi, Shirley Verrett, Claudio Desderi, Alberto Zedda, and Giorgio Gualerzi.
In 1989, she made her debut at the Comunale Theatre in Florence. Since then, she has cooperated with Massimo Theatre in Palermo, La Scala, Turin Royal Theatre, San-Carlo Theatre in Naples, Carlo Felice Theatre in Genova, Comunale Theatre in Bologna, La Fenice in Vernice, Paris Opera, Champs-Élysées Theatre, Théâtre du Châtelet, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, opera theatres in Lyon, Marseille, Zürich, Vienna, Monte-Carlo, and many others. She has regularly appeared at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and at the Martina Franca Festival.
Ciofi’s répertoire includes leading parts in Handel’s Tamerlano and Alcina, Traetta’s Ippolito e Aricia, Kerubini’s Medea, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Il turco in Italia, Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, Tancredi, Otello, La gazza ladra, Massenet’s Cendrillon, Verdi’s La traviata, Rigoletto, and Falstaff, Puccini’s La bohème and Gianni Schicchi, Bellini’s La sonnambula, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, and La fille du régiment, Debussy’s Le Martyre de saint Sébastien, Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann.
She has cooperated with Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Bruno Campanella, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Seiji Ozawa, Evelino Pidò, Georges Prêtre, Marcello Viotti, Alberto Zedda, Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi, George Nelson, René Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christophe Rousset, Alan Curtis, and other conductors.
Ciofi’s discography includes spiritual motets, Scarlatti’s cantatas, Monteverdi’s Orpheus, Vivaldi’s Ercole su’l Termodonte and Bajazet, Handel’s Radamisto, Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, as well as duets from Handel’s operas recorded with Joyce DiDonato (EMI Classics/Virgin), Bellini’s La sonnambula, Kerubini’s Medea (Nuova Era), Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable, Rossini’s Otello (Dynamic), and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Harmonia Mundi; Grammy Award 2005).
In 1989, she made her debut at the Comunale Theatre in Florence. Since then, she has cooperated with Massimo Theatre in Palermo, La Scala, Turin Royal Theatre, San-Carlo Theatre in Naples, Carlo Felice Theatre in Genova, Comunale Theatre in Bologna, La Fenice in Vernice, Paris Opera, Champs-Élysées Theatre, Théâtre du Châtelet, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, opera theatres in Lyon, Marseille, Zürich, Vienna, Monte-Carlo, and many others. She has regularly appeared at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and at the Martina Franca Festival.
Ciofi’s répertoire includes leading parts in Handel’s Tamerlano and Alcina, Traetta’s Ippolito e Aricia, Kerubini’s Medea, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Il turco in Italia, Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, Tancredi, Otello, La gazza ladra, Massenet’s Cendrillon, Verdi’s La traviata, Rigoletto, and Falstaff, Puccini’s La bohème and Gianni Schicchi, Bellini’s La sonnambula, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, and La fille du régiment, Debussy’s Le Martyre de saint Sébastien, Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann.
She has cooperated with Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Bruno Campanella, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Seiji Ozawa, Evelino Pidò, Georges Prêtre, Marcello Viotti, Alberto Zedda, Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi, George Nelson, René Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christophe Rousset, Alan Curtis, and other conductors.
Ciofi’s discography includes spiritual motets, Scarlatti’s cantatas, Monteverdi’s Orpheus, Vivaldi’s Ercole su’l Termodonte and Bajazet, Handel’s Radamisto, Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, as well as duets from Handel’s operas recorded with Joyce DiDonato (EMI Classics/Virgin), Bellini’s La sonnambula, Kerubini’s Medea (Nuova Era), Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable, Rossini’s Otello (Dynamic), and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Harmonia Mundi; Grammy Award 2005).
