Giuliana Gianfaldoni is one of the most promising voices on today’s opera scene, praised for “an exquisite timbre of luminous beauty” (Connessi all’Opera).

Born in Taranto, she studied at the “G.B. Martini” Conservatory in Bologna and continued her training with Antonella D’Amico in Verona. She made her debut at nineteen as Despina in Così fan tutte at the Ópera de Tenerife, returning the following year as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Her portrayal of Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival (Yap 2014) first brought her to international attention. Since then, she has collaborated with conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Roberto Abbado, Daniel Oren, Daniele Rustioni, Riccardo Frizza, Giacomo Sagripanti, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Michele Spotti, and in productions by Damiano Michieletto, Leo Muscato, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Graham Vick, Jacopo Spirei and Franco Zeffirelli.

 

In 2024–2025 she sang as Donna Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia in Rovigo, Ravenna, Lyon and Pisa; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto at the Opera de Las Palmas; Micaëla in Carmen at the Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; and Nannetta in Falstaff at the Verdi Festival in Parma, where she also took part in the Verdi Gala. She also performed with Beatrice Rana at the Classiche Forme Festival and made her house debut at the Teatro Comunale Nouveau in Bologna as Musetta in La Bohème. Upcoming engagements include the New Year's Concert with the Orchestra della Toscana at the Teatro Verdi in Florence, Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and her debuts in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Mitridate, re di Ponto at the Teatro San Carlo.

 

A refined interpreter of the Belcanto repertoire, she has made Gilda a signature role, performing it at major Italian and international houses including Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro Regio di Torino, Wexford Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House Muscat, in the production marking the theatre’s 10th anniversary with the final staging conceived by Franco Zeffirelli. Other notable roles include Norina in Don Pasquale, Beatrice in Beatrice di Tenda at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Marie in La fille du régiment in Trieste, Turin and Bari, Donna Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia in Rovigo, Ravenna, Lyon, Pisa and at the Festival della Valle d’Itria and Micaëla in Carmen which she has sung at the Festival Internacional de Ópera Alejandro Granda, Teatro Regio di Torino, Opera Carlo Felice, Teatru tal-Opra Aurora in Gozo and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.

 

From the start of her career, Giuliana has shown a natural affinity for Mozart, performing as Despina, Zerlina, Zaide, Donna Anna, Susanna and Ilia following her debut as Konstanze.

 

She has also distinguished herself in the symphonic repertoire, performing works such as the Stabat Mater by Rossini, Mozart and Pergolesi, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Saint-Saëns’ La Nuit and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Filarmonica Toscanini di Parma, Orchestra della Toscana and at the MITO Festival, as well as at the summer season of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In December 2023 she sang in the televised Christmas Concert at the Italian Senate (Rai 1) conducted by Michele Spotti and at the 2024 Easter Concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai under Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

 

A regular guest of the Rossini Opera Festival since 2019, when she joined the “Accademia Rossiniana Alberto Zedda” and made her debut as Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims (a role that has become one of her signatures), she has since appeared in La cambiale di matrimonio, Stabat Mater, Cantata in morte di M. F. Malibran, Rossinimania and numerous concerts, culminating in the summer of 2025 with the rare Cantata in morte di Didone. For the 2022 Rossini Weeks of the Rossini Opera Festival, she sang as Amenaide in Tancredi at the Teatro della Fortuna di Fano.

 

Other notable appearances include Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Regio di Parma (opening the 2021 Verdi Festival) and Teatro Verdi di Sassari, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at the Opéra de Montpellier and Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Corilla in Donizetti’s Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali in Piacenza, Giustina in Margherita by Jacopo Foroni in Wexford, Lisette in La Rondine in Genoa and the opening of the Donizetti Opera Festival with Il diluvio universale.

 

Among her awards, she won the 65th AsLiCo Competition for Young Opera Singers in 2014 and the Ottavio Ziino International Competition in 2015. Her recordings include Un ballo in maschera (Gustavo III) from the 2021 Verdi Festival and Il diluvio universale from Donizetti Opera 2023.