Spain: concerts, recitals and symphonic repertoire
"Endowed with a voice that is not only remarkable for the richness of harmonics and brilliance, powerful in the high notes 'of strength', but especially for the control of the emission of half-voices and pianissimos".
L'Opera
Erika Grimaldi’s 2025/2026 season includes several role debuts: in the title role of Suor Angelica and as Giorgetta in Il tabarro with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Washington Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall New York, and as Abigaille in a new production of Nabucco at Theater Bonn, where she also appears as the protagonist of Tosca. Erika Grimaldi also returns to the roles of Leonora in Il trovatore at Opera Carlo Felice, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera at Teatre Principal de Maó, Menorca, and Desdemona in Otello at the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and appears in gala concerts in Malmö and Rebild. Other future engagements include her house debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Mimì in La bohème.
Highlights of her last past seasons include a series of role debuts: as Maddalena di Coigny in Andrea Chénier and as Leonora di Vargas in La forza del destino at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, as Aida at the Teatro Regio Turin, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Korean National Opera Seoul, and as Leonora in Il trovatore with the New Zealand Opera.
Erika Grimaldi made her Teatro alla Scala debut as Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco, the inaugural opera of the 2015/2016 season. Other highlights have included Micaëla in Carmen and Mimì at the San Francisco Opera, Mathilde in Guillaume Tell at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Alice Ford in Falstaff at the Verbier Festival, Nedda in Pagliacci and Adina in L’elisir d’amore at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Micaëla at the Teatro dell’Opera Rome, Mimì at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Teatro San Carlo Naples, Amelia Grimaldi in Simon Boccanegra at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, Amelia Grimaldi, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Liù in Turandot and Nedda in Pagliacci at the Teatro Regio Turin.
Engagements on the concert platform include Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Philharmonie Paris, Edinburgh Festival, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Gianandrea Noseda at the Barbican Centre, New York Lincoln Center, and Palau de la Música Barcelona, with the Orchestra Verdi in Milan and with the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Penderecki’s Symphony No.8 Lieder Der Vergänglichkeit conducted by the composer himself at the Festival Enescu in Bucharest, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 at the Arena di Verona and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at Carnegie Hall New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Toulouse as well as on tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
She has collaborated with conductors such as R. Abbado, Armiliato, Battistoni, Callegari, Chailly, Gamba, Lyniv, Muti, Noseda, Oren, Palumbo, Penderecki, Renzetti, and Steinberg and stage directors like Pier’Alli, Bieito, Bussotti, Del Monaco, Hampe, Lavia, Montaldo, Patroni Griffi, and Scola.
Erika Grimaldi wears exclusively high-fashion designer Eleonora Lastrucci.
