Silvia Tro Santafé
San Diego Opera debut. Spanish soprano Silvia Tro
Santafé made her professional debut as Lucilla in
The Silken Ladder at the Rossini Opera
Festival in Pesaro.
Other roles in her early repertoire include Cherubino in
The Marriage of Figaro at Santa Fe Opera, Zerlina in
Don Giovanni for Opera de Oviedo and
Medoro in Orlando,
Sesto in Julius Caesar in Egypt and
Messagiera in Orfeo in Valencia, Spain. Other notable performances include
Tolomeo in Julius Caesar in Egypt with
De Nederlandse Opera and Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Polinesso in
Ariodante at Opéra de Paris, Dresden’s
Semper Opera and at the Salzburg Festival, the title role of
Rinaldo at the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
the title role of Xerxes at
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Ruggiero
in Alcina
for
Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the title role of
Eliogabalo at Théâtre Royal de la
Monnaie, the title role of Ariodante at Barcelona’s Liceu and Nicklausse in
The Tales of Hoffmann for Rome Opera.
In recent years she has established herself as a great Rossini singer and her
Rosina has been heard on the stages of Bologna, Toulouse, Amsterdam, Zurich,
Luxemborg, Vienna, Washington D.C., Munich and Geneva. Her Isabella in
The Italian Girl in Algiers has been
heard in Berlin, Zurich,
Dresden, Vienna,
Madrid, Menorca and Hannover. Her
Angelina in Cinderella has been heard
in Vienna, Dresden,
Brussels, Zurich,
Barcelona, Bergamo,
Como, Mantua
and others.