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In 2012, she made her US debut with [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] at [[Millennium Park]] singing the soprano part of ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'' under Muti, and later made her [[Carnegie Hall]] debut in its season-opening concert with CSO and Muti with the same program.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-22/entertainment/ct-ent-0924-cso-millennium-park-20120923_1_riccardo-muti-audun-iversen-orchestra-hall|author=John von Rhein|title=Before strike, it's 'singing in the rain' at Millennium Park for CSO|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=22 September 2012}}</ref> In the same year, at Ravenna Festival, in a production directed by [[Cristina Mazzavillani Muti]], Feola made her role debut of Gilda (''[[Rigoletto]]''),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ravennafestival.org/programma_spettacoli/calendario/pagina1665.html|title=Trilogia d’autunno - ‘Aspettando Verdi’ - Rigoletto|website=Ravenna Festival|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001165936/http://www.ravennafestival.org/programma_spettacoli/calendario/pagina1665.html|archivedate=1 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> a signature role of hers, which has served as the vehicle for her house debuts at [[Zürich Opera House|Opernhaus Zürich]] (2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opernhaus.ch/spielplan/kalendarium/rigoletto/season_1389/|title=Rigoletto, Saison 2012/2013|website=Opernhaus Zürich}}</ref> [[Bavarian State Opera|Bayerische Staatsoper]] (2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.staatsoper.de/stueckinfo/rigoletto/2015-11-13-19-00.html|title=Rigoletto, Freitag, 13. November 2015|website=Bayerische Staatsoper}}</ref> [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]] (2017, her US stage opera debut),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lyricopera.org/concertstickets/calendar/2017-2018/productions/lyricopera/rigoletto-opera-tickets#./Meet%20the%20Artists?&_suid=152028399251209997177892684732|title=Rigoletto, Season 2017/2018|website=Lyric Opera of Chicago}}</ref> and the [[Metropolitan Opera]] (2019).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357221|title=Rigoletto {895} Metropolitan Opera House: 04/26/2019|website=MetOpera Database}}</ref>
In 2012, she made her US debut with [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] at [[Millennium Park]] singing the soprano part of ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'' under Muti, and later made her [[Carnegie Hall]] debut in its season-opening concert with CSO and Muti with the same program.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-22/entertainment/ct-ent-0924-cso-millennium-park-20120923_1_riccardo-muti-audun-iversen-orchestra-hall|author=John von Rhein|title=Before strike, it's 'singing in the rain' at Millennium Park for CSO|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=22 September 2012}}</ref> In the same year, at Ravenna Festival, in a production directed by [[Cristina Mazzavillani Muti]], Feola made her role debut of Gilda (''[[Rigoletto]]''),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ravennafestival.org/programma_spettacoli/calendario/pagina1665.html|title=Trilogia d’autunno - ‘Aspettando Verdi’ - Rigoletto|website=Ravenna Festival|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001165936/http://www.ravennafestival.org/programma_spettacoli/calendario/pagina1665.html|archivedate=1 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> a signature role of hers, which has served as the vehicle for her house debuts at [[Zürich Opera House|Opernhaus Zürich]] (2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opernhaus.ch/spielplan/kalendarium/rigoletto/season_1389/|title=Rigoletto, Saison 2012/2013|website=Opernhaus Zürich}}</ref> [[Bavarian State Opera|Bayerische Staatsoper]] (2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.staatsoper.de/stueckinfo/rigoletto/2015-11-13-19-00.html|title=Rigoletto, Freitag, 13. November 2015|website=Bayerische Staatsoper}}</ref> [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]] (2017, her US stage opera debut),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lyricopera.org/concertstickets/calendar/2017-2018/productions/lyricopera/rigoletto-opera-tickets#./Meet%20the%20Artists?&_suid=152028399251209997177892684732|title=Rigoletto, Season 2017/2018|website=Lyric Opera of Chicago}}</ref> and the [[Metropolitan Opera]] (2019).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357221|title=Rigoletto {895} Metropolitan Opera House: 04/26/2019|website=MetOpera Database}}</ref>


In 2014, she made her [[Wigmore Hall]] debut in the [[Ian Rosenblatt#Rosenblatt Recitals|Rosenblatt Recital Series]] with pianist [[Iain Burnside]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rosenblattrecitals.com/recital.aspx?key=139|title=Rosa Feola - Rosenblatt Recitals - 09 Jan 2014|website=Rosenblatt Recitals}}</ref>
In 2014, she made her [[Wigmore Hall]] debut in the [[Ian Rosenblatt#Rosenblatt Recitals|Rosenblatt Recital Series]] with pianist [[Iain Burnside]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rosenblattrecitals.com/recital.aspx?key=139|title=Rosa Feola, Soprano. Iain Burnside. Pianist|website=Ravenna Festival|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103165541/https://www.rosenblattrecitals.com/|archivedate=3 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>


2015 and 2016 were her breakthrough years. Her appearance as Elvira in [[Welsh National Opera]]'s new production ''[[I puritani]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wno.org.uk/event/i-puritani|title=I puritani, Autumn 2015|website=Welsh National Opera}}</ref> won her rave reviews—she was honored as "Best Female in an Opera Production" at the Wales Theatre Awards<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walestheatreawards.com/the-awards-y-gwobrau-2016/|title=The Awards 2016/Y Gwobrau 2016|website=The Wales Theatre Awards}}</ref> and cited for outstanding achievement in Great Britain’s What’s On Stage Opera Poll 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/winners-of-2016-whatsonstage-opera-poll_39436.html|title=Winners of 2016 WhatsOnStage Opera Poll|website=What's On Stage}}</ref> The year of 2015 also saw the release of her first solo album, ''Musica e Poesia'', on the Opus Arte label, with selections by such composers as [[Ottorino Respighi]], [[Giuseppe Martucci]], [[Amilcare Ponchielli]], [[Ciro Pinsuti]], and [[Franz Liszt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opusarte.com/details/OACD9039D|title=Rosenblatt Recitals: Rosa Feola - Musica e Poesia|website=Opus Arte}}</ref> The recording was selected as an editor’s choice in the March issue of ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/editors-choice-recordings-march-2016|author=Martin Cullingford|title=Editor's Choice recordings – March 2016|work=[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]|date=26 February 2016}}</ref> and shortlisted for the Solo Vocal category of 2016 [[Gramophone Classical Music Awards]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-2016-gramophone-classical-music-awards-shortlist|title=The 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards Shortlist|work=[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]|date=1 August 2016}}</ref> She was shortlisted as the best female singer of the [[International Opera Awards]] 2016, alongside [[Anna Bonitatibus]], [[Mariella Devia]], [[Christine Goerke]], [[Evelyn Herlitzius]], and [[Anna Netrebko]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operaawards.org/archive/2016/|title=Archive 2016|website=International Opera Awards}}</ref> In 2016, she also sang the role of Nannetta (''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'') in concert performances of Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Muti as part of the citywide Shakespeare 400 Celebration,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cso.org/media/program_notes/ProgramNotes_Verdi_Falstaff.pdf|title=Falstaff, April 21-26 2016, Program Notes|website=Chicago Symphony Orchestra}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shakespeare400chicago.com/events/cso_falstaff.html|title=Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Falstaff|website=Shakespeare 400 Chicago}}</ref> made her US recital debut in San Francisco,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sfperformances.org/performances/1516/AnnaCaterinaAntonacci.html|title=Rosa Feola, soprano {{!}} Fabio Centanni, piano|website=San Francisco Performances|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406012403/http://sfperformances.org/performances/1516/AnnaCaterinaAntonacci.html|archivedate=6 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> made [[The Proms|Proms]] debut singing concert arias by [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eg5c8g|title=Proms 2016 Prom 9 - BBC Proms|website=BBC}}</ref> made her [[Vienna State Opera|Wiener Staatsoper]] debut in the role of Susanna (''Le nozze di Figaro''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/spielplan-tickets/detail/event/963607526-le-nozze-di-figaro/|title=Le nozze di Figaro, 21.10.2016|website=Wiener Staatsoper}}</ref> and toured with Wiener Staatsoper to Japan with the same role under Muti in the classical production by [[Jean-Pierre Ponnelle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbs.or.jp/english/stages/2016/wien/figaro.html|title=Le nozze di Figaro / 2016, Stages, Wien|website=NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation}}</ref>
2015 and 2016 were her breakthrough years. Her appearance as Elvira in [[Welsh National Opera]]'s new production ''[[I puritani]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wno.org.uk/event/i-puritani|title=I puritani, Autumn 2015|website=Welsh National Opera}}</ref> won her rave reviews—she was honored as "Best Female in an Opera Production" at the Wales Theatre Awards<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walestheatreawards.com/the-awards-y-gwobrau-2016/|title=The Awards 2016/Y Gwobrau 2016|website=The Wales Theatre Awards}}</ref> and cited for outstanding achievement in Great Britain's What's On Stage Opera Poll 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/winners-of-2016-whatsonstage-opera-poll_39436.html|title=Winners of 2016 WhatsOnStage Opera Poll|website=What's On Stage}}</ref> The year of 2015 also saw the release of her first solo album, ''Musica e Poesia'', on the Opus Arte label, with selections by such composers as [[Ottorino Respighi]], [[Giuseppe Martucci]], [[Amilcare Ponchielli]], [[Ciro Pinsuti]], and [[Franz Liszt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opusarte.com/details/OACD9039D|title=Rosenblatt Recitals: Rosa Feola – Musica e Poesia|website=Opus Arte|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210015833/http://www.opusarte.com/details/OACD9039D|archive-date=10 December 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The recording was selected as an editor's choice in the March issue of ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/editors-choice-recordings-march-2016|author=Martin Cullingford|title=Editor's Choice recordings – March 2016|work=[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]|date=26 February 2016}}</ref> and shortlisted for the Solo Vocal category of 2016 [[Gramophone Classical Music Awards]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-2016-gramophone-classical-music-awards-shortlist|title=The 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards Shortlist|work=[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]|date=1 August 2016}}</ref> She was shortlisted as the best female singer of the [[International Opera Awards]] 2016, alongside [[Anna Bonitatibus]], [[Mariella Devia]], [[Christine Goerke]], [[Evelyn Herlitzius]], and [[Anna Netrebko]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operaawards.org/archive/2016/|title=Archive 2016|website=International Opera Awards}}</ref> In 2016, she also sang the role of Nannetta (''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'') in concert performances of Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Muti as part of the citywide Shakespeare 400 Celebration,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cso.org/media/program_notes/ProgramNotes_Verdi_Falstaff.pdf|title=Falstaff, April 21-26 2016, Program Notes|website=Chicago Symphony Orchestra}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shakespeare400chicago.com/events/cso_falstaff.html|title=Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Falstaff|website=Shakespeare 400 Chicago}}</ref> made her US recital debut in San Francisco,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sfperformances.org/performances/1516/AnnaCaterinaAntonacci.html|title=Rosa Feola, soprano {{!}} Fabio Centanni, piano|website=San Francisco Performances|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406012403/http://sfperformances.org/performances/1516/AnnaCaterinaAntonacci.html|archivedate=6 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> made [[The Proms|Proms]] debut singing concert arias by [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eg5c8g|title=Proms 2016 Prom 9 - BBC Proms|website=BBC}}</ref> made her [[Vienna State Opera|Wiener Staatsoper]] debut in the role of Susanna (''Le nozze di Figaro''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/spielplan-tickets/detail/event/963607526-le-nozze-di-figaro/|title=Le nozze di Figaro, 21.10.2016|website=Wiener Staatsoper}}</ref> and toured with Wiener Staatsoper to Japan with the same role under Muti in the classical production by [[Jean-Pierre Ponnelle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbs.or.jp/english/stages/2016/wien/figaro.html|title=Le nozze di Figaro / 2016, Stages, Wien|website=NBS-Japan Performing Arts Foundation}}</ref>


Feola appeared in the 2017 New Year's Concert of La Fenice singing music by [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]], and [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]] under [[Fabio Luisi]]. The concert was broadcast by [[RAI]] and streamed by [[Arte|ARTE]] worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.teatrolafenice.it/scheda_a.php?ID=28141|title=Concerto di Capodanno 2016-2017|website=L’Archivio Storico del Teatro La Fenice}}</ref> She made her [[Teatro alla Scala]] debut in 2017 as well, in her role debut of Ninetta for the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the premiere of ''[[La gazza ladra]]'' at La Scala (1817) under [[Riccardo Chailly]]. The performance was broadcast by RAI Radio and TV and was shown in cinemas worldwide as part of the "All'Opera" 16/17 Season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teatroallascala.org/it/stagione/2016-2017/opera/la-gazza-ladra.html|title=La gazza ladra, Stagione 2016/2017|website=Teatro alla Scala}}</ref>
Feola appeared in the 2017 New Year's Concert of La Fenice singing music by [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]], and [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]] under [[Fabio Luisi]]. The concert was broadcast by [[RAI]] and streamed by [[Arte|ARTE]] worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.teatrolafenice.it/scheda_a.php?ID=28141|title=Concerto di Capodanno 2016-2017|website=L’Archivio Storico del Teatro La Fenice}}</ref> She made her [[Teatro alla Scala]] debut in 2017 as well, in her role debut of Ninetta for the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the premiere of ''[[La gazza ladra]]'' at La Scala (1817) under [[Riccardo Chailly]]. The performance was broadcast by RAI Radio and TV and was shown in cinemas worldwide as part of the "All'Opera" 16/17 Season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teatroallascala.org/it/stagione/2016-2017/opera/la-gazza-ladra.html|title=La gazza ladra, Stagione 2016/2017|website=Teatro alla Scala}}</ref>


On 21 June 2020, Feola joined Riccardo Muti and [[Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini]] for a concert inaugurating Ravenna Festival of the year, singing music of Mozart. The open-air concert taking place at {{ill|Rocca Brancaleone|it}}, with all regulations of social distancing, was one of the first live concerts in Italy after almost four months of lockdown due to [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ravennafestival.org/litalia-della-musica-riparte-da-ravenna-festival/|title=L’Italia della musica riparte dal Ravenna Festival|website=Ravenna Festival}}</ref> The performance was live broadcast by RAI Radio 3 (audio) and streamed online (video).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raiplayradio.it/articoli/2020/06/Ravenna-Festival-74003a25-33a9-429f-ad66-aeb21df344fd.html|title=Ravenna Festival - Radio3 Suite - Il cartellone|website=Rai Play Radio}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ravennafestival.live/events/rmmusic-digital-streaming-platform/|title=Concerto inaugurale|website=Ravenna Festival Live}}</ref>
On 21 June 2020, Feola joined Riccardo Muti and [[Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini]] for a concert inaugurating Ravenna Festival of the year, singing music of Mozart. The open-air concert taking place at {{ill|Rocca Brancaleone|it}}, with all regulations of social distancing, was one of the first live concerts in Italy after almost four months of lockdown due to [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ravennafestival.org/litalia-della-musica-riparte-da-ravenna-festival/|title=L’Italia della musica riparte dal Ravenna Festival|website=Ravenna Festival}}</ref> The performance was live broadcast by RAI Radio 3 (audio) and streamed online (video).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raiplayradio.it/articoli/2020/06/Ravenna-Festival-74003a25-33a9-429f-ad66-aeb21df344fd.html|title=Ravenna Festival - Radio3 Suite - Il cartellone|website=Rai Play Radio}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ravennafestival.live/events/rmmusic-digital-streaming-platform/|title=Concerto inaugurale|website=Ravenna Festival Live}}</ref>

On 16 October 2020, Feola made her anticipated role debut of Violetta (''[[La traviata]]'') at {{ill|Teatro Gabriello Chiabrera|it}} in Savona. The production was created by Renata Scotto who made her career debut exactly in the same role at this theater in 1952.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.operagiocosa.it/content/la-traviata-2020|title=Autunno 2020 - La traviata|website=Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa}}</ref>

In 2023, Feola appeared in the movie [[Maestro (2023 film)|''Maestro'']] singing with [[Isabel Leonard]] in the finale of [[Gustav Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]] in C minor "Resurrection", in a reproduction of the famed 1973 performance led by [[Leonard Bernstein]] in [[Ely Cathedral]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=22 December 2023 |title=‘Maestro’ Won’t Let Leonard Bernstein Fail |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/arts/music/maestro-bradley-cooper-leonard-bernstein.html |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Doyle Moor |first=Emily |date=20 November 2023 |title=Maestro musings |url=https://www.santafeopera.org/company/press-news-media/maestro-musings/ |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=Sante Fe Opera}}</ref>


Other roles Feola has sung include Serafina (''[[Il campanello]]''), Zerlina (''[[Don Giovanni]]''), Servilia (''[[La clemenza di Tito]]''), Musetta (''[[La bohème]]''), Lauretta (''[[Gianni Schicchi]]''), Carolina (''[[Il matrimonio segreto]]''), Norina (''[[Don Pasquale]]''), Sandrina (''[[La finta giardiniera]]''), Ilia (''[[Idomeneo]]''), Leïla (''[[Les pêcheurs de perles]]''), Amina (''[[La sonnambula]]''), Lucia (''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]''), Dircé (''[[Médée (Cherubini)|Médée]]''), Fiorilla (''[[Il turco in Italia]]'').
Other roles Feola has sung include Serafina (''[[Il campanello]]''), Zerlina (''[[Don Giovanni]]''), Servilia (''[[La clemenza di Tito]]''), Musetta (''[[La bohème]]''), Lauretta (''[[Gianni Schicchi]]''), Carolina (''[[Il matrimonio segreto]]''), Norina (''[[Don Pasquale]]''), Sandrina (''[[La finta giardiniera]]''), Ilia (''[[Idomeneo]]''), Leïla (''[[Les pêcheurs de perles]]''), Amina (''[[La sonnambula]]''), Lucia (''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]''), Dircé (''[[Médée (Cherubini)|Médée]]''), Fiorilla (''[[Il turco in Italia]]'').


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Feola got married on 9 December 2015. Her husband, [[baritone]] Sergio Vitale, is also from Caserta.<ref name=nozze /> Rosa Feola has two younger brothers: Carlo, a [[bass-baritone]], and Gianluca, a violinist.<!-- <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilmattino.it/spettacoli/teatro/rigoletto_la_prima_al_san_carlo_il_mio_canto_tra_l_amore_e_l_inganno-2203179.html|title=Rigoletto, la «prima» al San Carlo. «Il mio canto tra l’amore e l’inganno»|work=Il Mattino|date=18 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comunedipignataro.it/?p=25910|title=Prestigioso successo per il Gran Galà Lirico a Pignataro|website=CdP - Cultura e cronaca dall'AgroCaleno}}</ref> --><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theater-basel.ch/files/M2BOYY7/theaterj_10_rz_web.pdf|title=Meine Selbst Gebackene Pizza ist Wirklich Fantastisch!|website=Theaterjournal #10 p.20-21 - Theater Basel}}</ref>
On 9 December 2015, Feola married [[baritone]] Sergio Vitale, who is also from Caserta.<ref name=nozze /> Rosa Feola has two younger brothers: Carlo, a [[bass-baritone]], and Gianluca, a violinist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilmattino.it/spettacoli/teatro/rigoletto_la_prima_al_san_carlo_il_mio_canto_tra_l_amore_e_l_inganno-2203179.html|title=Rigoletto, la «prima» al San Carlo. «Il mio canto tra l’amore e l’inganno»|work=Il Mattino|date=18 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comunedipignataro.it/?p=25910|title=Prestigioso successo per il Gran Galà Lirico a Pignataro|website=CdP - Cultura e cronaca dall'AgroCaleno}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theater-basel.ch/files/M2BOYY7/theaterj_10_rz_web.pdf|title=Meine selbst gebackene Pizza ist wirklich fantastisch!|work=Theaterjournal [[Theater Basel]]|date=September 2018|number=10|pages=20–21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918230826/https://www.theater-basel.ch/files/M2BOYY7/theaterj_10_rz_web.pdf|archive-date=18 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 06:47, 29 December 2023

Rosa Feola
Rosa Feola, 2020
Background information
Born (1986-05-21) 21 May 1986 (age 38)
San Nicola la Strada, Caserta, Italy
Genresopera
Occupation(s)soprano
Years active2009–present

Rosa Feola (born 21 May 1986) is an Italian operatic soprano.

Early life and training[edit]

Feola was born and grew up in San Nicola la Strada, Caserta (Italy), in a music-loving family.[1] At about 5, she had her first piano lesson with a cousin, and at around 6, she began to sing in coro dell'Accademia musicale di San Nicola and later the church choir.[2][3] Having studied with Mara Naddei, in 2008 she graduated in singing with a first-class honors degree from Salerno's Conservatorio Giuseppe Martucci [it]. She continued her studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's Opera Studio attending master classes by Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi, and Cesare Scarton.[4]

Career[edit]

Feola made her operatic debut in the role of Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims) under Kent Nagano at the Santa Cecilia Academy at age 23.[5][6] She came to international attention winning Second Prize, the Zarzuela Prize and the Rolex Audience Prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia 2010.[7]

In the following year, she made her role debuts / house debuts as Adina (L'elisir d'amore) at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma,[8] Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at Teatro La Fenice,[9] and Micaëla (Carmen) at Deutsche Oper Berlin.[10] Most significant was singing the role of Inez in the modern premiere of Mercadante's I due Figaro under Riccardo Muti with whom she has maintained a longtime collaboration since then.[5][11] The performances at Ravenna Festival were recorded live and later released on the Ducale label.[4]

In 2012, she made her US debut with Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Millennium Park singing the soprano part of Carmina Burana under Muti, and later made her Carnegie Hall debut in its season-opening concert with CSO and Muti with the same program.[12] In the same year, at Ravenna Festival, in a production directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Feola made her role debut of Gilda (Rigoletto),[13] a signature role of hers, which has served as the vehicle for her house debuts at Opernhaus Zürich (2013),[14] Bayerische Staatsoper (2015),[15] Lyric Opera of Chicago (2017, her US stage opera debut),[16] and the Metropolitan Opera (2019).[17]

In 2014, she made her Wigmore Hall debut in the Rosenblatt Recital Series with pianist Iain Burnside.[18]

2015 and 2016 were her breakthrough years. Her appearance as Elvira in Welsh National Opera's new production I puritani[19] won her rave reviews—she was honored as "Best Female in an Opera Production" at the Wales Theatre Awards[20] and cited for outstanding achievement in Great Britain's What's On Stage Opera Poll 2016.[21] The year of 2015 also saw the release of her first solo album, Musica e Poesia, on the Opus Arte label, with selections by such composers as Ottorino Respighi, Giuseppe Martucci, Amilcare Ponchielli, Ciro Pinsuti, and Franz Liszt.[22] The recording was selected as an editor's choice in the March issue of Gramophone[23] and shortlisted for the Solo Vocal category of 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards.[24] She was shortlisted as the best female singer of the International Opera Awards 2016, alongside Anna Bonitatibus, Mariella Devia, Christine Goerke, Evelyn Herlitzius, and Anna Netrebko.[25] In 2016, she also sang the role of Nannetta (Falstaff) in concert performances of Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Muti as part of the citywide Shakespeare 400 Celebration,[26][27] made her US recital debut in San Francisco,[28] made Proms debut singing concert arias by Mendelssohn and Mozart,[29] made her Wiener Staatsoper debut in the role of Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro),[30] and toured with Wiener Staatsoper to Japan with the same role under Muti in the classical production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.[31]

Feola appeared in the 2017 New Year's Concert of La Fenice singing music by Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi under Fabio Luisi. The concert was broadcast by RAI and streamed by ARTE worldwide.[32] She made her Teatro alla Scala debut in 2017 as well, in her role debut of Ninetta for the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the premiere of La gazza ladra at La Scala (1817) under Riccardo Chailly. The performance was broadcast by RAI Radio and TV and was shown in cinemas worldwide as part of the "All'Opera" 16/17 Season.[33]

On 21 June 2020, Feola joined Riccardo Muti and Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini for a concert inaugurating Ravenna Festival of the year, singing music of Mozart. The open-air concert taking place at Rocca Brancaleone [it], with all regulations of social distancing, was one of the first live concerts in Italy after almost four months of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic.[34] The performance was live broadcast by RAI Radio 3 (audio) and streamed online (video).[35][36]

On 16 October 2020, Feola made her anticipated role debut of Violetta (La traviata) at Teatro Gabriello Chiabrera [it] in Savona. The production was created by Renata Scotto who made her career debut exactly in the same role at this theater in 1952.[37]

In 2023, Feola appeared in the movie Maestro singing with Isabel Leonard in the finale of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection", in a reproduction of the famed 1973 performance led by Leonard Bernstein in Ely Cathedral.[38][39]

Other roles Feola has sung include Serafina (Il campanello), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Musetta (La bohème), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Carolina (Il matrimonio segreto), Norina (Don Pasquale), Sandrina (La finta giardiniera), Ilia (Idomeneo), Leïla (Les pêcheurs de perles), Amina (La sonnambula), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Dircé (Médée), Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia).

Personal life[edit]

On 9 December 2015, Feola married baritone Sergio Vitale, who is also from Caserta.[1] Rosa Feola has two younger brothers: Carlo, a bass-baritone, and Gianluca, a violinist.[40][41][42]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Il soprano sannicolese Rosa Feola convolerà a nozze con il baritono casertano Sergio Vitale". Vivi Casagiove. 1 December 2015. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Volker Hagedorn trifft Rosa Feola". Opernhaus Zürich MAG65 p.46-47.
  3. ^ Angela Lonardo (9 June 2019). "Ricordi d'infanzia". Il Mattino (Caserta edition).
  4. ^ a b "Notes", I due Figaro, ℗© 2012 Ducale, DUC 045-47
  5. ^ a b Emiliano Metalli (12 July 2017). "Il sorriso e la tenacia – Intervista a Rosa Feola". Connessi all'Opera.
  6. ^ "News dai Corsi". Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Winners". Operalia, The World Opera Competition.
  8. ^ "L'elisir d'amore, Stagione 2010/2011". Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
  9. ^ "Le nozze di Figaro, Venerdì 14 Ottobre 2011, ore 19:00". L’Archivio Storico del Teatro La Fenice.
  10. ^ "Carmen, Donnerstag, 03.11.2011". Deutsche Oper Berlin. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011.
  11. ^ "Saverio Mercadante • I due Figaro, o sia Il soggetto di una commedia". Salzburger Festspiele.
  12. ^ John von Rhein (22 September 2012). "Before strike, it's 'singing in the rain' at Millennium Park for CSO". Chicago Tribune.
  13. ^ "Trilogia d'autunno - 'Aspettando Verdi' - Rigoletto". Ravenna Festival. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012.
  14. ^ "Rigoletto, Saison 2012/2013". Opernhaus Zürich.
  15. ^ "Rigoletto, Freitag, 13. November 2015". Bayerische Staatsoper.
  16. ^ "Rigoletto, Season 2017/2018". Lyric Opera of Chicago.
  17. ^ "Rigoletto {895} Metropolitan Opera House: 04/26/2019". MetOpera Database.
  18. ^ "Rosa Feola, Soprano. Iain Burnside. Pianist". Ravenna Festival. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014.
  19. ^ "I puritani, Autumn 2015". Welsh National Opera.
  20. ^ "The Awards 2016/Y Gwobrau 2016". The Wales Theatre Awards.
  21. ^ "Winners of 2016 WhatsOnStage Opera Poll". What's On Stage.
  22. ^ "Rosenblatt Recitals: Rosa Feola – Musica e Poesia". Opus Arte. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018.
  23. ^ Martin Cullingford (26 February 2016). "Editor's Choice recordings – March 2016". Gramophone.
  24. ^ "The 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards Shortlist". Gramophone. 1 August 2016.
  25. ^ "Archive 2016". International Opera Awards.
  26. ^ "Falstaff, April 21-26 2016, Program Notes" (PDF). Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
  27. ^ "Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Falstaff". Shakespeare 400 Chicago.
  28. ^ "Rosa Feola, soprano | Fabio Centanni, piano". San Francisco Performances. Archived from the original on 6 April 2016.
  29. ^ "Proms 2016 Prom 9 - BBC Proms". BBC.
  30. ^ "Le nozze di Figaro, 21.10.2016". Wiener Staatsoper.
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  33. ^ "La gazza ladra, Stagione 2016/2017". Teatro alla Scala.
  34. ^ "L'Italia della musica riparte dal Ravenna Festival". Ravenna Festival.
  35. ^ "Ravenna Festival - Radio3 Suite - Il cartellone". Rai Play Radio.
  36. ^ "Concerto inaugurale". Ravenna Festival Live.
  37. ^ "Autunno 2020 - La traviata". Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa.
  38. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (22 December 2023). "'Maestro' Won't Let Leonard Bernstein Fail". New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  39. ^ Doyle Moor, Emily (20 November 2023). "Maestro musings". Sante Fe Opera. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  40. ^ "Rigoletto, la «prima» al San Carlo. «Il mio canto tra l'amore e l'inganno»". Il Mattino. 18 January 2017.
  41. ^ "Prestigioso successo per il Gran Galà Lirico a Pignataro". CdP - Cultura e cronaca dall'AgroCaleno.
  42. ^ "Meine selbst gebackene Pizza ist wirklich fantastisch!" (PDF). Theaterjournal Theater Basel. No. 10. September 2018. pp. 20–21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2018.

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