Paola Romanò lives in Legnano (near Milan). She is married with three children and began studying singing at a very young age at Milan's Conservatorio G. Verdi where she got her degree, obtaining at the same time her arts degree at the Catholic University in the same city.
In 1984 she won her first national contest making her debut as Santuzza in
Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Regio in Parma.
In 1988, as a mezzo-soprano, she won the third Luciano Pavarotti International Contest and sang
Luisa Miller alongside the famous tenor who made her study as a soprano.
After her international debuts in Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia, a new phase in her career began which allowed her to achieve very important goals in a few years.
As a soprano, Paola Romanò has performed for the past five years at the Arena of Verona where she has sung in three productions of
Nabucco,
Aida and
Macbeth and is one of the leading dramatic Verdian sopranos of the new generation. She has collaborated with conductors like Arena, Bartoletti, Byckov, Gatti, Mehta, Oren and directors like Cavani, De Ana, Pizzi, Ronconi and Tiezzi.
In the 2000 season she interpreted
Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Regio of Turin,
Turandot in Stuttgart and Barcelona, for the occasion of the reopening of the Teatro Liceu, Marie in
Wozzeck in Bologna, conducted by Gatti, Abigaille at the Arena of Verona in De Ana's new production.
In 2001 she sung Elena in
I Vespri Siciliani in Darmstadt,
Tosca in Dresden and she performed once again in
Turandot in Stuttgart. She performed the role of Abigaille at the Arena of Verona and Lady
Macbeth in Copenhagen.
In 2002 she interpreted
Aida in Mannheim,
Tosca and Abigaille in
Nabucco at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin,
Turandot at Puccini's Festival of Torre del Lago,
Turandot in St. Gallen, Lady
Macbeth in Jesi and
Tosca in Tessalonica.
July 2003