Renata Lamanda

Graduate of conservatory in her native Perugia and winner of the Città dir Roma International Voice Competition, Renata Lamanda made her debut in a production of Bizet’s Carmen, at the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome. She embarked on her successful career singing on the stages of a number of major Italian opera houses, including the Teatro alla Scala (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel), Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera (Rigoletto; Simon Boccanegra; Werther; Madama Butterfly; La traviata), Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair; Sor Angelica; Madama Butterfly), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre), or the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (Madama Butterfly). She has worked with renowned conductors such as Bruno Bartoletti, Alain Lombard, Daniel Oren, Evelino Pidò, Marcello Rota, Nello Santi or Alberto Veronesi.

Figuring prominently on the list of Ms Lamanda’s most recent artistic commitments have been the creations of major roles: Amneris (Aida), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), and Maddalena (Rigoletto) at Rome’s Terme di Caracalla; Suzuki at the Teatro Comunale in Florence and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Dinah (Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti) and Adalgisa (Norma) at the Teatro Verdi of Trieste; and Maddalena at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Her repertoire also includes the parts of Charlotte (Werther), which she sung at the Rome Opera; Carmen (Teatro Magnani, Fidenza), Fioretta (in Leoncavallo’s I Medici, at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago); Giulietta (in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, in Baltimore, USA); Vitellia (in La clemenza di Tito, at the Teatro Magnani, Fidenza), and others. She was on the cast of the complete set of Leoncavallo’s I Medici (with Plácido Domingo and Daniela Dessì, conducted by Alberto Veronesi), recorded for Deutsche Grammmophon.