Teresa Romano

An authentic dramatic mezzo-soprano "with a privileged timbre color" that "from low notes rich in harmonics rises to radiant high notes without fractures" (Elvio Giudici), "Broad and dark voice", "with an overwhelming temperament" (Andrea Merli), Teresa Romano began her career at young age, debuting first as soprano in roles such as Fiordiligi in “Così Fan tutte”, Vitellia in “La Clemenza di Tito”, Margherita in “Mefistofele”, Leonora in “Il Trovatore” and “La Forza del Destino”, Amelia in “Un Ballo in Maschera” and Maddalena di Coigny in “Andrea Chénier”. She later tackled the role of Turandot in Puccini's masterpiece at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, at the Regio in Turin, at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and at La Fenice in Venice.

She finally made the definitive transition to the mezzo-soprano repertoire, making her debut in 2019 as Amneris in "Aida" at the Festspielhaus in Erl and then continuing, in 2022, with her debut as Principessa di Bouillon in "Adriana Lecouvreur" in Piacenza and Modena and, subsequently, at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno, under the baton of Daniel Oren.

In the same year she also made her debut as Eboli in "Don Carlo" in  Vilnius conducted by Sesto Quatrini and as Laura Adorno in  "Gioconda" in Verona and for Circuito Lombardo. In December she sang Amneris again at the Prague State Opera conducted by Andriy Yurkevych. In 2023 she made her debut in Japan at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater as Santuzza conducted by Asher Fisch.

She has performed under the baton of illustrious conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Benini, Jader Bignamini, Alpesh Chauhan, Ottavio Dantone, Asher Fisch, Daniele Gatti, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda, Daniel Oren, Sesto Quatrini, Donato Renzetti, Jeffrey Tate, Yuri Temirkanov.

She sang under the direction of important directors including Luca Ronconi, David Mc Vicar, Michael Hampe, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Emma Dante, Stefano Poda, Lorenzo Mariani and Denis Krief.

She was a member of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in the two-year period 2005-2007 and she won the first prize in the competition "Voci Verdiane" , the first prize in the competition "Viotti" and the second prize in the competition "Elizabeth Connell Sidney. She was also the only Italian finalist at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2013.

Recently she was engaged in “Don Carlo”, “Fedora” and “Cavalleria rusticana” in the Circuito Emiliano, the debut at Teatro Real in Madrid with “Adriana Lecouvreur” and “Trovatore”, at the Deutsche Oper with “La Gioconda”. In 2025 She took  part at “Trovatotre” and “Aida” productions at the MET and at the AIDS Gala at the Deutsche Oper

Recent and future engagements include “Messa di Requiem” at Santa Cecilia with Daniel Harding, “Cavalleria rusticana” at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, “Trovatore” in Piacenza, “Beethoven IX”  at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the debut at Frankfurt Opera with “La Fiamma”