Giulia Semenzato

Giulia Semenzato is an internationally recognized soprano, particularly for her interpretation of Baroque and Mozart repertoire. She studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, graduating from there with honours. She then studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, specialising in Baroque repertoire under the tutelage of Rosa Dominguez. She later won the Toti dal Monte di Treviso competition (2012) as well as Winner of the Farinelli award for best baroque voice at the Bologna competition 2013 and at the Cesti-Competition of Innsbruck 2014. Her career debut was in the role of Elisetta in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto at the major opera houses in Treviso, Lucca, Ferrara, and Pisa.

Giulia soon undertook an international career that saw her debut in major European theatres and concert halls such as Teatro La Fenice in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans and Ottone in Villa, and Teatro alla Scala in Mozart’s Lucio Silla. Other Mozart roles include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Serpetta in La finta Giardiniera, Despina in Cosi fan tutte and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She has also performed the role of Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff at Beijing NCPA, Carolina in Cimarosa’s Matromonio Segreto at Innsbruck Festwochen, as well as Michal in Handel’s Saul and Dorinda in Orlando, both at the Theater an der Wien.

Giulia regularly collaborates with conductors such as René Jacobs, Giovanni Antonini, Raphaël Pichon, Alessandro de Marchi, Leonardo García Alarcón, Václav Luks, Riccardo Minasi, Diego Fasolis and many more. She also worked with P.Jaarvi, Z.Metha, J.E.Garidiner, A.Bernardini, K.Lynn-Wilson, I.Metzmacher,D.Rustioni, C.Moulds, S.Montanari, and stage directors including Claus Guth, Christof Loy, Damiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, David McVicar, Barrie Kosky, Evgeny Titov,Christoph Marthaler and Jetske Mijnssen.