Anna Pirozzi

Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi made her Royal Opera debut in 2016 as Leonora (Il trovatore). She returns in the 2017/18 Season to sing Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana) and Lady Macbeth (Macbeth). Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi was born in Naples and studied at the Istituto Musicale in Valle d’Aosta and the Turin Conservatory with Silvana Moyso. She has won widespread acclaim for her performances as Abigaille (Nabucco), a role with which she made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2013 conducted by Riccardo Muti and which she has sung in Florence, Bologna, Parma, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Valencia and for Arena di Verona. Pirozzi’s other engagements include Lucrezia Contarini (I due Foscari) for La Scala, Milan, Amelia (Un ballo in maschera) for Bavarian State Opera, Teatro Regio, Turin