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The Spanish mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé has established a great reputation with audiences and leading opera houses around the world.
Throughout her career, she has performed more than 30 operatic roles. Some of her most notable roles include: Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Cenerentola (La Cenerentola), Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri), Lucilla (La scala di seta), Ernestina (L'equivoco stravagante), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Malcom (La donna del lago), Arsace (Semiramide and Aureliano in Palmira), Zelmira (Zelmira), Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Carmen (Carmen), Isoletta (La Straniera), Maffio Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Princess Eboli (Don Carlo), Fenena (Nabucco), and characters in Handel’s works such as Xerxes, Rinaldo, Ariodante, Polinesso (Ariodante), Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare) and Doña Inés (María Padilla). She has also performed roles like Charlotte (Werther), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Princess Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Laura Adorno (La Gioconda), Alcina (Ruggiero), Lisinga (Le Cinesi), and Néris (Médée).
She has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Maurizio Benini, Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Frizza, Fabio Biondi, Marc Minkowski, Bruno Campanella, and Christophe Rousset, among others. Additionally, she has worked under the stage direction of prominent figures such as David McVicar, Valentina Carrasco, Damiano Michieletto, and Christof Loy.
Silvia Tro Santafé is a regular presence on the world’s most prestigious stages, including the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra de Paris, ABAO Bilbao, Semperoper Dresden, and theaters in Zurich, Amsterdam, Palermo, Toulouse, Hamburg, Geneva, Bologna, Washington D.C., Marseille, Genoa, and Moscow, among many others. She has also participated in festivals such as the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Peralada, Santa Fe, and Las Palmas.
In the 2025/26 season, she will appear in the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur at ABAO Bilbao, as Carmen at the Ópera de Lima, and as Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. She will also return to the Teatro Real in Madrid in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. In the symphonic repertoire, she will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the season-opening concert of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, as well as Verdi’s Requiem with the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears. Additionally, she will present a recital at the Auditorio de Tenerife alongside the Atenea Quartet.
Her opera recordings include notable works such as Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira (Opera Rara), Handel’s Serse (Erato), and Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (Nightingale), as well as recital discs of bel canto and Spanish songs.
