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The Italian mezzo-soprano, Giuseppina Bridelli, started studying singing at a very young age at Conservatoire in Piacenza, where she graduated under the guidance of Maria Laura Groppi. She studied at Conservatory ”Giuseppe Nicolini” of Piacenza, obtaining Diploma in Singing; and at IULM University of Milan, obtaining Degree in Communication and Management of Art and Culture Markets. She also studied at Scuola dell’Opera Italiana in Bologna. Besides being among the finalists in several international song contests such as Hans Gabor Belvedere (2008), Neue Stimmen (2009) and Pietro Antonio Cesti (2011), she also won several singing competition like Francesco Provenzale (Napoli), Baroque singing competition in Vicenza, Concours de chant de Froville, International Vocal Competition Stanislas Moniuszko in Varsavia and the Renata Tebaldi Competition in San Marino, In 2007, she won the As.li.co International Singing Competition and made her debut at only 21 as Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte conducted by Diego Fasolis.
After that, Giuseppina Bridelli is rapidly on demand in important opera production in Italy and Europe. She as been Idamante, title role in W.A. Mozart's Idomeneo with Francesco Meli, conducted by Michele Mariotti and directed by David Livermore, Enrichetta in I Puritani (director Mariotti) Lucia in La gazza ladra, Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni for Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto at the Stresa Festival 2010, Puritani and Georges Bizet's Carmen in Japan and in Cagliari; Flora in La traviata ( with tourney in Hong Kong), conducted by M. Mariotti and Rusalka at Teatro San Carlo in Napoli; Zaida in Il turco in Italia at Opera de Nantes Angers and in Luxembourg, W.A. Mozart's Zauberflote at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Despina in Cosi fan tutte at Teatro comunale in Bologna conducted by M. Mariotti, Sesto in W.A. Mozart's La clemenza di Tito in Opera de ST.Etienne.
In concert version Giuseppina Bridelli sang: Phaedra (Benjamin Britten), Cinque frammenti di Saffo (L. Dalla Piccola) and the Ruckert Lieder (Gustav Mahler) in Bologna, Das Knaben Wunderhorn (G. Mahler) and the Monologue Le Bel indifferent (Tutino) at Festival della Valle d'Itria in 2010. She sang for the celebration of Premio Celletti at Festival della Valle d’Itria 2014 with a Rossini program conducted by Fabio Luisi. The same year she has been invited by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi for Mysterium of Nino Rota (recording EMI) , Les Mozart de l’Opera at Théâtre des Champs Elysees in Paris, Les nuits d’ete by berlioz at Philharmonie of Luxembourg.
Giuseppina Bridelli already worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, N. Santi, M. Mariotti, Fabio Luisi, A. Zedda, R. Abbado, José Cura, Leonardo García-Alarcón, Raphaël Pichon, J. Jones, Diego Fasolis, Ottavio Dantone, J. Rhorer, C. Pluhart, and directors like E. Sagi, P. Stein, F. Ozpetek, A. Antoniozzi, L. Mariani, S. Vizioli, P. Pizzi, D. Livermore, C. Muti, D. Abbado, L. Podalydes. Particularly appreciated for the ancient music repertoire, she regularly works with Cappella Mediterranea (Director: Leonardo García-Alarcón), L’arpeggiata, Il Pomo d'Oro, Accademia Bizantina (Director: Ottavio Dantone), La Venexiana (Director: Claudio Cavina), Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon), Le cercle de l’armonie, La Nuova Musica (Director: David Bates), Auser musici, Le concert d’hostel dieu, Stile galante.
Bridelli already has performed at the main Festivals: Unione musicale di Torino, Festival D’Ambronay, Saintes, Utrecht, Froville, Gend, Brugges, Gottingen, Bremen, Beaune, Venice, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Lisbonne, St Michel en Thierache, Innsbruck, Pietà de Turchini, Associazione Scarlatti.
Giuseppina Bridelli sang Ernesto in Il mondo della luna by Haydn at Opera di Montecarlo (2014), Ippolita in Elena by Cavalli for the festival d’aix en provence at Opera de Lille and Lisbonne, Clori in Gli equivoci nel sembiante by Alessandro Scarlatti and Asteria in Bjazet by Gasparini at Opera Barga with Auser Musici, recorded by Glossa, Cesti’s Orontea and Incoronazione di Poppea in Innsbruck Festwochen, Amore in Orfeo e Euridice by Gluck at San Carlo in Napoli alongside Daniela Barcellona, Novello Giasone by Cavalli at Festival della valle d’itria, Flora in Incoronazione di Dario by Antonio Vivaldi (recorded for Naive) with Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone in Bremen and at Festival de Beaune (2013), Poppea in Incoronazione di Poppea with La Venexiana conducted by Claudio Cavina in Krakow, Minerva and El Tiempo in La guerra de los gigantes by Durón at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid with Cappella Mediterranea conducted by Leonardo García-Alarcón, Berenice by George Frideric Handel at Gottingen Handel Festival, Orfeo by Monteverdi in Bremen with L’arpeggiata alongside Rolando Villazon.
Among her last engagements: Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims al Rossini Opera Festival in summer 2015, Despina (Cosi’ fan tutte) at the Florence Opera House, Mercédès in Carmen conducted by Zubin Mehta at the Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Aristeo in Orfeo by Luigi Rossi with the Ensemble Pygmalion conducted by Raphaël Pichon at the Opéra National de Lorraine, and at the Opéra Royal of Versailles (Production praised by the critic as the best show in France 2016), Passio secundum Johannes by A. Scarlatti with Leonardo García-Alarcón ( with CD and DVD recording by Ricercar), Requiem of Donizetti in Paris in Saint Denis, concert version of W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Copenhagen and Malmo summer opera festivals, and again Cherubino at Teatro san Carlo di Napoli, and for a new production in Malmo Opera, directed by P. Stein.
In 2017 the Opéra de Bordeaux, the Théâtre of Caen and the Opéra Royal de Versailles invited Giuseppina Bridelli for the reprise of the Orfeo of Rossi in the role of Aristeo. Later on she will sing again Carmen and Traviata at the San Carlo of Naples, a monteverdian trilogy (Messaggera, Nerone, Penelope) in Schwetzingen with la venetian, and Monteverdi's Vesperae with Ensemble Pygmalion in Amsterdam, Paris, Lipsia and London (BBC Proma, Royal Albert Hall). In concert, she will held recital in Paris and Lyon, inNew York Carnegie Hall and in Nepi Stradella Festival with Il Pomo d'Oro, in New York again with L’arpeggiate, and in a world tour with Monteverdi Orfeo with Cappella Mediterranea.
Giuseppina Bridelli already recorded with the major labels: Glossa (Bajazet, Nicola Porpora's cantatas), EMI (Mysterium by N. Rota), Deutsche Grammophon (CD Habanera with Elina Garanca), Bongiovanni (Novello Giasone, Cavalli), Naive (Incoronazione di Dario), Ricercar (Passio secundum Johannes by A. Scarlatti), Tactus (A. Vivaldi's cantatas), Arcana (Doriclea by Stradella) |
