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Elisa Balbo is a lyric<br>
soprano that has came to<br>
international attention thanks to<br>
her luminous and<br>
silky voice combined<br>
with her great musicality and<br>
expressive acting.

Balbo has appeared in some among the world’s major theatres such as Arena di Verona, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Teatro Bellini in Catania, Bunka Mura in Tokyo, the Wiener Konzerthaus di Vienna, the Ravenna Festival, the Enescu Festival, the International Music Hall in Moscow, the Grand Rubinstein Rimskij-Korsakov Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, the Ljubjana Festival among others</p>
<p>Soprano gifted with remarkable vocal and stylistic ductility, Balbo has a wide repertoire that includes Rossini (Maometto II, Moïse, Tancredi, Petite Messe Solennelle Stabat Mater), Pergolesi (La serva padrona), Mozart (Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Requiem), Schumann (Margherita in Szenen aus Goethes Faust), Verdi (Otello, Alice in Falstaff), Puccini (Mimì and Musetta in La Bohème, Liù in Turandot), Bizet (Micaela in Carmen), Leoncavallo (Pagliacci), Giordano (Siberia), Gomez (Contessa in Lo schiavo), Lehár (Hanna ne La vedova allegra), Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti). She has worked with eminent conductors, including Riccardo Muti. Her live recordings include Rossini's Maometto II and Moïse for Naxos and Gomes' Lo Schiavo for Dynamic.<br>
In 2022, Balbo's first chamber music album "Lunaria - Songs to the moon", recorded with pianist Michele D'Elia, was released (Illiria).

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PRIMO DISCO DA SOLISTA: LUNARIA

Soprano: Elisa Balbo
Piano: Michele D’Elia