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Teresa Iervolino is one of the great names in the interpretation of baroque and bel canto repertoire.
After studying piano as a child, she then decided to devote herself to opera singing and in 2011 received her singing diploma with top marks and honors. After that, she won many international competitions such as the AsLiCo Competition, the Maria Caniglia Competition, and the Etta Limiti Prize Competition. After singing Stravinsky’s Pulcinella at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, she made her debut at the Ravenna Festival in L’Italiana in Algeri (Isabella), a title she also performed at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, in Nancy and at the Beaune Festival.
Teresa Iervolino regularly collaborates with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Fabio Luisi, Roberto Abbado, Alberto Zedda, Christophe Rousset, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ivor Bolton, Donato Renzetti, Carlo Rizzi, Marc Minkowski, Stefano Montanari, Andrea Marcon, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro De Marchi, Gabriele Ferro, Antonino Fogliani, Marco Armiliato, Daniel Oren, Daniele Rustioni, Riccardo Frizza.
Her most recent successes include Tancredi (title role), Falstaff (Quickly), Norma (Adalgisa), Semiramide (Arsace), Handel’s Rinaldo (title role), Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso (Orlando), L’Equivoco Stravagante (Ernestina), La Cenerentola, Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Ermione (Andromaca), Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix (Pierotto) and Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz (Beppe), Salieri’s Armida (Ismene), Nabucco (Fenena), Porpora’s L’Angelica (Orlando), Handel’s Partenope (Rosmira), Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Alcina (Bradamante), Giulio Cesare (Cornelia), Cavalli’s La Calisto (Diana), Mercadante’s Il giuramento (Bianca), Il Barbiere di Siviglia, a recital at the Rossini Opera Festival, Handel’s Messiah, Tancredi in Rouen, Mozart’s Requiem, L’Italiana in Algeri, Ariodante, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the opening of the MiTo Festival, Cenerentola with Gianluca Capuano, Petite messe solennelle, Madama Butterfly (including in concert form with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko), Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Handel’s La Resurrezione and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Wiener Konzerthaus.
She has appeared with leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and has performed at major venues and festivals including Teatro Real Madrid, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Arena di Verona, Teatro alla Scala, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, Salzburg Festival, and the Wiener Konzerthaus, among many others.
Her already extensive discography includes: Handel’s Partenope with Il Pomo d’Oro and Riccardo Minasi for Erato; Handel/Leo’s Rinaldo with La Scintilla and Fabio Luisi and Linda di Chamounix with the Maggio Musicale for Dynamic; Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata and Salieri’s Armida with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset for Aparté; Rossini’s Messa di Gloria with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Antonio Pappano for Warner Classics; La fidanzata del demonio, a solo album dedicated to the art songs of Saverio Mercadante for the Maggio Live label.
Highlights of the 2025-26 season include: Falstaff and a Verdi gala at the Verdi Festival in Parma; further performances of Falstaff and Ermione in concert version at the Opéra de Marseille; Lucrezia Borgia at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; Orfeo ed Euridice at the Auditorio de Tenerife; and Enrico di Borgogna at the Teatro Malibran in Venice.
