Eleonora Contucci

Eleonora Contucci, when still a child, sang in the world premiere of Henze’s Pollicino. This was staged for the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, where in the years she experienced a wide range of performing arts and various artistic media and worked alongside such personalities as Marcel Marceau. Having begun her voice studies with Maria Vittoria Romano, she went on to graduate from the Conservatorio in Latina, where her teacher was Nicoletta Panni. Later she was chosen to participate in prestigious masterclasses with Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Julia Hamari and a specialist class in baroque voice music with Hervé Niquet.

She appeared in the main Italian opera venues and international Festivals singing Le nozze di Figaro in Florence conducted by Zubin Mehta, Handel’s Amadigi conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini at the San Carlo Opera in Naples, in Rome and at the Baroque Festival of Beaune in France, Donizetti’s La Favorite at Carlo Felice Theatre in Genua, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini in Salamanca and in Beaune, L’elisir d’amore at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Monteverdi Orfeo at Teatro alla Scala conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Contucci also has a busy concert and chamber schedule and a repertoire that runs from baroque to contemporary music. She has performed with such conductors as Gerd Albrecht, Ivor Bolton, Massimo De Bernart, Luigi Piovano, Markus Stenz and Jeffrey Tate.

Brilliant Classics released her recording of the complete Lieder of Norbert Burgmüller and the first world recording of the complete Lieder of Hugo Staehle.

In 2015, she founded the Easter Festival in Montepulciano (www.festivaldipasqua.it), of which she is the artistic director.

She is a professor of opera singing at the Bolzano Conservatory.