Elisa Verzier

Born in Trieste, she began her musical studies at a very young age on the piano in her hometown and graduated in opera singing at the Conservatory of Trieste. She then studied with Fiorenza Cedolins and Patrizia Ciofi, with whom she is still studying.

In 2016 she made her debut at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste as Serpina in Paisiello's La Serva Padrona. She was subsequently Cecchina in Piccinni's opera of the same name in Treviso.

She is the winner of the ‘Vincenza in lirica’ Prize at the Ottavio Ziino Competition in Rome in 2021, the Bellini Opera Competition at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania and the 73rd AsLiCo in 2022 (for the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni).

In the same year, she made her debut in Trieste in the role of Norina in Don Pasquale (later revived in Pisa), then at Teatro Regio di Torino with Salieri's La scuola de' gelosi in the role ofthe Countess and as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni on the OperaLombardia circuit.

She was a member of the ensemble of Deutsche Oper Berlin for the 2022/2023 season, where she performed the roles of Musetta in La bohème, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and many others.

She then played the role of Mozart's Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Bellini in Catania and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for the OperaLombardia circuit.  

Among her most recent debuts were at La Scala in Milan for the opening of the 2023/2024 season in Don Carlo as Tebaldo, Mimì in La Bohème in Ferrara and Pisa in the production designed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, at the Glyndebourne Festival as Violetta Valéry in La traviata, gaining unanimous acclaim from audiences and critics alike, and later made her debut in Shanghai as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

In concert, she sang Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mozart's Krönungsmesse, avariety of sacred repertoire by Pergolesi, Schubert, Bach, Händel's Messiah and Rutter's Mass of the Children.

She has worked with leading conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Gianluigi Gelmetti and Michelangelo Mazza and with established directors such as Lluis Pasqual, Christof Loy, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Chiara Muti and Mario Martone.

Upcoming engagements include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Dortmund and Catania.