Soprano

Born in Bozen, Gemma Bertagnolli was a winner of both the AsLiCo and Francecso Viñas Competitions. Her career has already taken her to major Opera Houses and Concert Halls including the Teatro La Scala, Milan, the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, the Rome Opera, the Maggio Musicale, Fiorentino, the Opernhaus Zurich, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sansoucci, and the La Coruña, Pesaro, Salzburg and Wexford Festivals. Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach, Hendel, Pergolesi and Vivaldi to Mozart, the 9th symphony of Beethoven and the 2nd and 4th Symphonies of Mahler. It is above all as a singer of Baroque Music that she is most celebrated. Her operatic repertoire includes Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Oscar Un ballo in maschera and Nannetta Falstaff. Conductors with whom she has worked in opera and concert include Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti. From 2006 she taught “canto barocco” in many Italian conservatories. In 2016 she taught in Conservatorio “Giambattista Martini” in Bologna and Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Gioachino Rossini” in Pesaro. From 2011 to 2018 she cooperates at the Hochschule für Künste- University of Art Bremen, holding masters about the Italian pre-classical vocality. She is currently teaching at Vicenza, at the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Pedrollo. In 2011 and 2012 she taught at summer courses of early music in Salzburg – Mozarteum and was invited back to hold classes on Haendel’s Opera Alcina in 2017. She periodically holds short masters by many Italian conservatories. She joined Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival from 2013. In 2016, she was part of Japan Orfeo in Tokyo and Kamakura, within the celebrations for the 150 years of collaboration between Italy and Japan. Since 2017, she has collaborated to the creation of the Accademia Vivaldi for the Cini foundation in Venice, where she holds classes. In 2019 she was invited to hold classes by the prestigious courses of Ancient Music in Urbino.