
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Soprano
During the 24/25 season, Mariangela Sicilia performed the title role in Handel's Alcina at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle and a Puccini Gala with Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann at La Scala, Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Liù in Puccini's Turandot in Seoul with the Arena di Verona, as well as her debut at the Sofia Opera & Ballet singing Verdi's Messa da Requiem conducted by Daniel Oren.
In the 23/24 season, she made her debut at La Scala as Magda in Puccini's La Rondine. She also sang Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Macerata Opera Festival. On the concert stage, she performed Verdi's Requiem Mass with the Orchestra dei Diritti Umani and Alessio Allegrini and Bruckner's Te Deum at the Teatro Filarmonico with Pinchas Steinberg.
Other operatic successes include Mimì in La Bohème at the Sydney Opera House, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Royal Opera House Muscat, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Desdemona in Verdi's Otello at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Regio in Turin and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Regio in Parma and the Royal Opera House Muscat; Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome and Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and the Macerata Opera Festival.
At the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, she is a soloist in Bruckner's Te Deum at the 2024 Symphony inauguration and plays Magda in Puccini's La Rondine for the 2024 Opera and Ballet Season.
She made her debut at the Arena di Verona in 2018 as Micaela in Carmen, a role she will reprise in 2019, 2023, and 2024 at the 101st Opera Festival, where she will also play Liù in Puccini's Turandot.
For the 102nd Arena di Verona Opera Festival, she will once again be Micaela in Carmen, 150 years after the premiere and 30 years after the debut of Franco Zeffirelli's production.