Roberta Mantegna

Roberta Mantegna was born in Palermo in 1988; from the age of 8 she takes part in the seasons of the Teatro Massimo in the children's choir.

She graduated in piano in 2009 and in opera singing in 2010 at the Conservatory "V. Bellini" in Palermo. She gets the two years of opera singing training at the "N. Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari in 2015, in the same time she studies with Dimitra Theodossiou and Renata Scotto at the Accademia of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Between 2013 and 2015 she's in the Chorus of Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and she then sings Die Aufseherin in Elektra, conducted by J. Nott.

In October 2014 she won second prize at the "XXVII International Opera Competition Iris Adami Corradetti" and recently won the second prize and the best award for female voice "XVII Umberto Giordano Competition”. In December 2016 she won the first prize at Belcanto International Competition Vincenzo Bellini in Marseille.

She has been a member of "Fabbrica", the Young Artist Program at Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.

She has made her debuts as Norma in Treviso, and as Maria Stuarda at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Carmen (Micaela) in Rome - Terme di Caracalla, Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa) in Dubai with the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli tour, and opened a new production of I Masnadieri at Teatro dell’Opera in Roma, in first cast, conducted by Roberto Abbado.

Recent engagements: Pezzi sacri (Verdi) at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Maestro Daniel Harding; I Masnadieri (Amalia) in Montecarlo and in Valencia Il Corsaro (Gulnara) in Montecarlo, Il Pirata (Imogene) at La Scala and in Genève, Le Trouvère (Leonore) at the Festival Verdi of Parma, Ecuba (Polissena) at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Les Vêpres  siciliennes (conducted by Daniele Gatti) and Luisa Miller (conducted by Michele Mariotti) at the Opera di Roma, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Roberto Devereux, Aida in Venice, Il Trovatore in Leipzig, Macerata, Roma and Venice, Caterina Cornaro and Il Giuramento in Dortmund, Simon Boccanegra in Parma, Aida and Don Carlo in Madrid, Falstaff in Tokyo and Roberto Devereux in Washington and Sydney, I vespri siciliani in Bologna and Turin, Carmen in Macerata and Les Martyrs at the Theater An der Wien, La bohème at Wiener Staatsoper, at Teatro Regio in Parma and Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Falstaff at Wiener Staatsoper, Don Giovanni and Roberto Devereux at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Le Villi at Teatro Regio in Turin, Otello at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Falstaff at the Wiener Staatsoper and in Parma, Norma at the Macerata Opera Festival and in Leipzig

Upcoming engagements include Otello at Teatro alla Scala.