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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 thirty 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), 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), and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare). 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.
The 2024-25 season will feature a strong focus on Donizetti in her schedule. She will perform the title role in La favorite at ABAO Bilbao, conducted by Riccardo Frizza with stage direction by Valentina Carrasco; return to Madrid’s Teatro Real to sing Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda, under the baton of José Miguel Pérez-Sierra and directed by David McVicar; portray Sara in Roberto Devereux at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta in a production by Jetske Mijnssen; and make her debut as Doña Inés in Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, conducted by Riccardo Frizza in a concert version.
Among the highlights of the season is also the Lamenti recital at La Monnaie in Brussels, accompanied by the Narratio Quartet, and her solo debut in Prokofiev’s Aleksandr Nevsky cantata with ADDA Simfònica.
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.
