Biography

Romina Boscolo’s Bio At a glance

Italian contralto Romina Boscolo has been defined as "a luxurious contralto with a rich, dark and mellow voice and a phrasing marked by the utmost expressiveness" (Opera Click, 2022).

Her repertoire ranges from Handel to Verdi and Wagner. Ms. Boscolo has performed on many international stages, such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Bellini in Catania, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Cologne Opera, Hessian State Theatre of Wiesbaden, Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken, Theater Lübeck, Theater Bremen, Kiel Opera House, Darmstadt State Theatre, Municipal Theatre in São Paulo, Ankara Opera House.

She collaborated with renowned conductors, such as Pinchas Steinberg, Jader Bignamini, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Giampaolo Bisanti, Antonio Pirolli, Carlo Goldstein, Antonello Allemandi, Marcus Angius, Antonio Florio, John Neschling, Alexander Joel, Will Humburg, Conrad Junghähnel, Michael Güttler, Oleg Caetani, Andreas Wolf, Marco Comin, and Patrick Lange, among others.

Her many diverse roles include ULRICA in Un Ballo in Maschera, MRS QUICKLY in Falstaff, FRUGOLA, ZIA PRINCIPESSA, and ZITA in Il Trittico, SUZUKI in Madama Butterfly, WOWKLE in La Fanciulla del West, JEZIBABA in Rusalka, THE COUNTESS in Pique Dame, ERDA in Das Rheingold, MARY in Der fliegende Holländer, SCHWERTLEITE in Die Walküre, POLINESSO in Ariodante, CARMEN in Carmen, PREZIOSILLA in La Forza del Destino, MADDALENA in Rigoletto, DRITTE DAME in Die Zauberflöte, MARCELLINA in Le Nozze di Figaro, MAMMA LUCIA in Cavalleria Rusticana, JOCASTE in Oedipus Rex, ADELAIDE in Arabella, OLD LADY in Candide, ISABELLA in L'Italiana in Algeri, PREZIOSILLA in La Forza del Destino, LARINA in Eugene Onegin, SUZUKI in Madama Butterfly, OTTAVIA in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, PRINZ ORLOFSKY in Die Fledermaus, ANITA in West Side Story. She also created the role of ALIYAH in the world premiere of S. N. Eichberg's Schönerland at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden.

As a concert performer, Ms. Boscolo has been presented at Mozarteum Salzburg, Auditorium Nazionale della RAI in Turin, CSO Ada Ankara, Italienisches Kulturinstitut Köln, and more. Her concert repertoire spans Bach to Mahler and contemporary composers. In 2023, Romina debuted Evviva la Rossa!, a show conceived by the artist as a tribute to the iconic singer Milva, at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden.

In 2024, she performed MRS QUICKLY in a new production of Falstaff in Wiesbaden and LARINA in Eugene Onegin in Bonn.

Upcoming engagements include DRITTE DAME in Die Zauberflöte and GIGANTA in the world premiere of Die Blaue Sau, a superhero opera by Anno Schreier in Bonn.

ROMINA BOSCOLO’s REPERTOIRE

OPERA

Bernstein

• Candide - THE OLD LADY (Wiesbaden 2014, 2017)

• West Side Story - ANITA (Nice 2020)

Bizet

• Carmen - CARMEN (Ivrea 2012)

Britten

• Peter Grimes - MRS SEDLEY (Wiesbaden 2017, 2020)

Dvořák

• Rusalka - JEZIBABA (Bremen 2017-18, Lübeck 2019-20)

Eichberg

• Schönerland - ALIYAH (World Premiere, Wiesbaden 2017)

Händel

• Ariodante - POLINESSO Polinesso (Lübeck 2017)

• Messiah - ALTO (Bari 2014)

Janáček

• Věc Makropulos - POKLICEZKA/KOMORNA (Wiesbaden 2023)

Krenek

• Das Geheime Königreich - 3. DAME (Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca 2011)

Mascagni

• Cavalleria Rusticana - MAMMA LUCIA (Palermo 2020)

Monteverdi

• L’Incoronazione di Poppea - OTTAVIA (Cologne 2010)

Mozart

• Die Zauberflöte - DRITTE DAME (Wiesbaden 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, Bonn 2025)

• Le nozze di Figaro - MARCELLINA (Wiesbaden 2022)

Offenbach

• Les contes d'Hoffmann - LA VOIX DE LA MERE / LA VOIX DE LA TOMBE (Wiesbaden 2015)

Puccini

• Gianni Schicchi - LA CIESCA (Cologne 2013, Parma 2014) & ZITA (Wiesbaden 2021, 2023, Saarbrücken 2023-24)

• Il tabarro - LA FRUGOLA (Wiesbaden 2021, 2023, Saarbrücken 2023-24)

• Suor Angelica - LA BADESSA (Cologne 2013, Innsbruck 2020) & ZIA PRINCIPESSA (Lübeck 2015, Wiesbaden 2021, 2023)

• La fanciulla del West - WOWKLE (Montecarlo 2012)

• Madama Butterfly - SUZUKI (Wiesbaden 2016, 2019)

Ricci

• La Comare - COMARE (Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca 2013)

Rihm

• Jacob Lenz - ALT 2. (Bologna 2012)

Rossini

• L’Italiana in Algeri - ISABELLA (Turin, 2002)

Rota

• Napoli Milionaria! - DONNA PEPPENELLA (Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca 2010)

Strauss

• Arabella - ADELAIDE (Kiel 2018, Wiesbaden 2018)

• Die Frau ohne Schatten - EINE STIMME VON OBEN (Wiesbaden 2014-15)

• Elektra - ERSTE MAGD (Bologna, 2015)

Strauss II

• Die Fledermaus - PRINZ ORLOFSKY (Wiesbaden 2016-17)

Stravinsky

• Oedipus Rex - JOCASTA (Turin, 2006)

Tchaikovsky

• Pikovaya Dama - GRAFINYA (COUNTESS) (Wiesbaden 2022-23, Bari 2022) & Guvernantka (Wiesbaden 2022)

• Yevgeny Onegin - LARINA (Darmstadt 2017, Wiesbaden 2017, 2019, Bonn, 2024)

Verdi

• Falstaff - MRS QUICKLY (Sassari 2013, Iesi 2013, Sao Paulo 2014, Wiesbaden 2016, 2024, Freiburg 2019-20, Wiesbaden 2024)

• Il Corsaro - UN EUNUCO (Trieste 2013)

• Rigoletto - MADDALENA (Massa Marittima 2009)

• La Forza del Destino - PREZIOSILLA (Wiesbaden 2016)

• Un Ballo in Maschera - ULRICA (Saarbrücken 2015-16, Wiesbaden 2018, Chemnitz 2018-19, Bremen 2018-19)

Wagner

• Das Rheingold - ERDA (Wiesbaden 2016-17)

• Der fliegende Holländer - MARY (Wiesbaden 2016, 2018, 2020)

• Die Walküre - SCHWERTLEITE (Wiesbaden 2017)

FUTURE REPERTOIRE

Cilea

• Adriana Lecouvreur - PRINCIPESSA DI BOUILLON (Ready)

Donizetti

• Anna Bolena - SMETON (Ready)

• Lucrezia Borgia - ORSINI (Ready)

• La fille du régiment - MARQUISE DE BIRKENFELD (Ready)

Giordano

• Andrea Chénier - MADELON (Ready)

Gluck

• Orfeo ed Euridice - ORFEO (Ready)

Händel

• Giulio Cesare - CORNELIA (Ready)

Korngold

• Die tote Stadt - BRIGITTA (In Preparation)

Ponchielli

• La Gioconda - LA CIECA (Ready)

Saint-Saëns

• Samson et Dalila - DALILA (Ready)

Strauss

• Elektra - KLYTÄMNESTRA (In preparation)

• Salome - HERODIAS (In preparation)

Rossini

• Tancredi - TANCREDI (Ready)

Verdi

• Aida - AMNERIS (Ready)

• Il trovatore - AZUCENA (Ready)

Wagner

• Götterdämmerung - ERSTE NORNE (Ready)

• Siegfried - ERDA (Ready)

CONCERT

Bach

• Matthäuspassion

• Weihnachtsoraturium

• Messe h-moll

Bellini

• Composizioni da camera Contralto

Brahms

• Alt-Rhapsodie

• Die schöne Magelone

• 4 Ernste Gesänge

• Ausgewählte Lieder

Chausson

• Poème de l’amour et de la mer

Conti

• Dorimena e Tuberone - DORIMENA

Dvořák

• Stabat Mater

Elgar

• Sea Pictures

Händel

• Messiah

Mahler

• Kindertotenlieder

• Symphonie 2.

• Das Lied von der Erde

• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

• Rückert-Lieder

• Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Mendelssohn

• Elias - ENGEL

Mozart

• Requiem

Pergolesi

• Stabat Mater

Respighi

• Il tramonto

Rossini

• Petite Messe Solennelle

• Stabat Mater

Schubert

• Winterreise

• Ausgewählte Lieder

Schumann

• Frauenliebe und -leben

Verdi

• Requiem

Vivaldi

• Stabat Mater

• Salve Regina

• Nisi Dominus

Wagner

• Wesendonck Lieder