Soprano
World
Born in Milan, Lucrezia Drei has graduated from the Conservatory G. Verdi of her hometown. A winner for two years of AsLiCo Competition (2014 and 2015), she has also won the Pavarotti Prize at 65° “Viotti” Competition and the First Prize at “Paola Montaldi” Competition in Mantua.
She has been in the children’s choir of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, having the chance to be in several outstanding productions with such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim. At only thirteen she made her operatic debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milano in The Cunning little vixen under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis, followed by Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande with Georges Prêtre.
In 2016 she attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro under the guidance of Alberto Zedda. In August 2016 she made her debut at Rossini Opera Festival as Corinna in ll viaggio a Reims.
During the last seasons she sang Adina in L’elisir d’amore at New National Theatre in Tokyo, at Opéra de Toulon, at Teatro Regio Turin and at Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Gilda in Rigoletto, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Adriana Lecouvreur (Mademoiselle Jouvenot) and The Turn of the Screw (Flora) in the theatres of Pavia, Cremona, Brescia and Como; First Lady in Die Zauberflöte at Royal Opera House in Muscat, at Macerata Opera Festival staged by Graham Vick, at Teatro Regio in Turin; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blonde) at Savonlinna Festival; Requiem by Fauré at Théatre du Capitole de Toulouse; Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco in St. Petersburg; Poulenc’s Gloria at Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Il viaggio a Reims (Corinna) and The merry widow (Valencienne) at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti at Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Pesaro; La cenerentola (Clorinda) at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich; L’elisir d’amore (Giannetta) at Opéra National de Paris; La bohème (Musetta) in Marseille.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Rigoletto (Gilda) at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Die Fledermaus (Roselinde) at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta), Il tabarro and Suor Angelica at Teatro Regio in Turin; Don Giovanni (Zerlina) and Il matrimonio segreto (Carolina) at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Anna Bolena in Hong Kong; La Tragédie de Carmen (Micaela) at Teatro delle Muse in Ancona; Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna) and Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) at Teatro Verdi in Salerno; I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta) at Lithuanian National Opera Vilnius; Rigoletto (Gilda) at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: La traviata at Shangyin Opera House in Shanghai and at Theater Kiel; Cavalleria Rusticana at Lugano LAC.
