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The Italian soprano, Paola Roggero, graduated in piano in 1991 before devoting herself to studying voice and graduating in 1997 from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi di Torino, awarding full marks under the supervision of Franca Mattiucci. She specialized afterwards in Baroque and Lied vocal repertoire with Antonio Juvarra, Julia Hamari and Renata Colombatto, becoming an esteemed soloist for the Classical and Baroque repertoire.
From 1998 Paola Roggero began an intense concert activity collaborating with the main Italian and European orchestras, performing the most important compositions of Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, W.A. Mozart, J. Haydn, L.v. Beethoven, G. Rossini. She has performed under the conductors Gabriel Garrido, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Sergio Balestracci, Ottavio Dantone, Giulio Castagnoli, Julius Kalmar, Lucius Weber and with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under the conductors Jeffrey Tate, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Helmuth Rilling, Juanjo Mena. She performs as a solo singer with the most important Italian Baroque music ensembles, such as: Accademia Bizantina (Director: Ottavio Dantone), Estro Barocco (since 2000), Academia Montis Regalis, I Musici di Santa Pelagia, Accademia del Santo Spirito, Gli Affetti Musicali. She has participated in the most important European Festivals, among which Ravenna Festival, Festival Monteverdi in Cremona, Bruges, Ambronay and Festival da Saints en France.
Her repertoire in representative style consists of the main compositions of the 17thcentury and she has to her name numerous monographic concerts about C. Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, G.F. Handel, Nicola Porpora, J. Dowland, H. Purcell.
Paola Roggero's latest monothematic work is dedicated to G.A. Rigatti, of whom she has recorded the Mottetti a voce sola per soprano Libro II (Motets for solo voice for soprano Book II) with the ensemble Estro Barocco, published by Urania Record in world premiere. Together with the pianist Andrea Stefenell, she has to her name numerous concerts of German, French and Spanish chamber repertoire, with monographs of Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, M. De Fallae Gabriel Fauré. In the main Italian theatres, she has performed the lead roles of the operas of G.B. Pergolesi, G.F. Handel, W.A. Mozart, V. Bellini, G. Donizetti and G. Verdi.
Paola Roggero has recorded for Urania Records, Stradivarius, Claudiana.
From 2004 Paola Roggero teaches voice in the Opera and Baroque Studies Program at the Music Academy “V. Baravalle” in Fossano - today Fondazione Fossano Musica – and is deputy headmistress of the Music Academy “A. Gandino” in Bra, by Fondazione Fossano Musica. From 2006 she holds master classes where she teaches voice, either Baroque and operatic. |
