Italian Baroque

Giuseppina Bridelli – voice Mezzosoprano of Piacenza origin, with nearly twenty years of career in the baroque repertoire of which she is one of the most appreciated promoters, she now boasts the debut of numerous titles ranging from Mozart to Rossini, from Haydn to Pergolesi, up to significant incursions into romantic, late-romantic, and contemporary pages. Her career takes place in the most prestigious theaters and festivals, dividing itself between musical theater and the great chamber and symphonic-choral repertoire. Her career highlights recurring collaborations with the most prestigious baroque music ensembles and with conductors of the caliber of Ottavio Dantone, Federico Maria Sardelli, Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Biondi, Diego Fasolis, Enrico Onofri, and Alberto Zedda. She has also been conducted by Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi, Michele Mariotti, Fabio Luisi, Roberto Abbado, Renato Palumbo, Leonardo García Alarcón, Raphaël Pichon, Jérémie Rhorer, Christina Pluhar, and Antonello Manacorda. She is a frequent guest at important festivals and concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Bozar in Brussels, Festival de Saint-Denis, Händel-Festspiele in Halle, Musikfest Bremen, Festival international d’opéra baroque de Beaune, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, and BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Her numerous discographic recordings include Vivaldi’s L’Incoronazione di Dario (Naïve), Rossi’s Orfeo (Harmonia Mundi), Rossini’s Péchés de vieillesse (Naxos), Gasparini’s Il Bajazet, Händel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Glossa), Stradella’s La Doriclea (Arcana), Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Draghi’s Prometeo (Alpha), Cavalli’s Ercole Amante and La rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo (DVD Naxos). She has held baroque singing workshops at the Conservatorio Nicolini in Piacenza and taught Renaissance and baroque singing at the Conservatorio Steffani in Castelfranco Veneto. She is currently a professor of Baroque Singing at the Conservatorio S.Cecilia in Rome.