Carmela Remigio

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Carmela Remigio (born 1973 in Pescara, Italy) is an Italian opera soprano. She began studying violin at age five and later trained as a singer with Aldo Protti at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese, then with Leone Magiera. In 1992 she won the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition in Philadelphia, and from 1997 she shared the stage with Pavarotti in more than 70 concerts worldwide. She made her professional debut in 1993 at Teatro Massimo in Palermo in the lead role of the opera Alice by Giampaolo Testoni.

Her early repertoire focused on Baroque and Mozart, singing major soprano roles such as Susanna and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Elettra and Ilia in Idomeneo, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She has performed Don Giovanni in many productions, singing both Donna Elvira and Donna Anna; the latter role led to collaboration with Peter Brook and Claudio Abbado on a recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Remigio has also taken on Verdian roles, including Alice in Falstaff, Desdemona in Otello, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, and Violetta in La traviata. Her wide repertoire includes Puccini heroines (Mimì in La Bohème, Liù in Turandot), the complete Donizetti Tudor Queens Cycle (Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena), and Rossini works such as L’inganno felice, Maometto secondo, Il viaggio a Reims, and Mosè in Egitto. She has appeared in roles like Adalgisa in Norma, Micaela in Carmen, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Marguerite in Faust, Alceste, Euridice, and Armida in Rinaldo. She has also sung Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Miranda in La donna serpente, and Nedda in Pagliacci.

Remigio performs both opera and chamber music in major theatres and festivals around the world, including La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera House in London, San Carlo in Naples, and many others. Her recordings include two Don Giovanni productions as Donna Anna (with Claudio Abbado and with Daniel Harding), Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Arie Sacre Verdiane, and a two-disc Arias set featuring works by Tosti and Rossini.

She has received honors such as the Ciattè d’oro (2010) from Pescara and was named Abruzzo Ambassador in 2012. In 2016 she won the Premio Abbiati for her technique, musicality, and stage presence. Upcoming engagements include Don Giovanni (Elvira) at La Fenice in Venice, Pagliacci (Nedda) in Bologna, Rossini’s cantata La riconoscenza at the Rossini Opera Festival, Lucrezia Borgia at Festival Donizetti in Bergamo, and La clemenza di Tito at the Liceu in Barcelona.