Daria Masiero studied singing and cello at the Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi in Alessandria with Rita Orlandi Malaspina, and in Vignola with Mirella Freni. She won a Diploma di Accademia at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan; she was a Cardiff Singer of the World finalist in 2005, as well as the winner of the Caruso competition in Milan in 2000. Career highlights include Nella
GIANNI SCHICCHI and Adelisa
UGO, CONTE DI PARIGI for Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Mimì
LA BOHEME for Teatro Comunale di Alessandria, Teatro Verdi di Fidenza, Jeonju National Theatre in South Korea, Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Teatro Comunale Chiabrera, the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo and at the Torre del Lago Puccini Festival, Nedda
PAGLIACCI at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, Micaëla
CARMEN for Opera Australia, Teatro Regio in Torino and Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, Glauce
MEDEA for both Torino and Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Donna Anna
DON GIOVANNI in Padova and Bassano del Grappa, Margaretha in Boito’s
MEFISTOFELE for the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Teatro Regio di Parma, Magda
LA RONDINE with l’Opera Nice Côte d’Azur, Violetta
LA TRAVIATA and Elisabetta
DON CARLO for Teatro Cafam de Bellas Artes de Bogota, the title-role in Statkowski’s
MARIA for the Wexford Opera Festival and Liu
TURANDOT for Opera Australia, Fondazione Petruzzelli, Bari, and Opera di Genova. Upcoming roles include the title-role
NORMA for the Croatian National Opera.
On the concert platform Ms Masiero has performed Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Nice and Monte Carlo, Mozart’s Requiem at the Paganini Auditorium in the Teatro Regio di Parma with tenor José Carreras, a concert dedicated to ‘Puccini’s Women’ at Torre del Lago with Plácido Domingo, was soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and Adelia from Donizetti’s UGO, CONTE DI PARIGI in concert at the Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan.
Recent operatic engagements include Leonora IL TROVATORE for Opera Australia and Western Australian Opera, the title-role TURANDOT, Micaela CARMEN and the title-role in AIDA for Opera Australia, title-role TOSCA for Opera Australia, Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatro Rendano di Cosenza, Desdemona OTELLO, Amelia UN BALLO IN MASCHERA and the title-role ADRIANA LECOUVREUR with AsLiCo at Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona and Teatro Sociale di Como, Cio Cio San MADAMA BUTTERFLY and Hélène JERUSALEM for Teatro Magnani, Fidenza, Lady Macbeth MACBETH for Fondazione Petruzzelli, Bari, Odabella ATTILA for Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the title-role NORMA and Leonora LA FORZA DEL DESTINO for the State Opera of Varna and the Opera Theatre and the title-role MANON LESCAUT for the Art Center, Seoul.
