Antonella Schiazza

Antonella Schiazza was born in Chieti (Italy). As a vocal student at the Conservatorio di Musica “Luisa D'Annunzio” in Pescara (Italy) in the class of Prof. Antonella Muscente, she received an Erasmus scholarship in 2003, which enabled her to spend an exchange year at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. In 2008, she completed her Master's degree in singing at the Hochschule für Musik in the class of Prof. Marga Schiml with distinction. In the 2007/2008 season, she is a scholarship holder of the opera studio “L.T.L.- Laboratorio toscano per la lirica” and is involved in the production “Paride ed Elena” by C. W. Gluck in the theaters of Pisa, Livorno, Lucca (Italy) and “Opéra Royal de Wallonie” in Liège (Belgium). The singer receives important impulses from attending master classes, including : with KS Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and KS Julia Varady (“Internationale Hugo-Wolff-Akademie” in Stuttgart); with Fiorenza Cossotto (“New Opera Ischia” in Italy); with Cecilia Bartoli and Silvana Bazzoni-Bartoli (“Kissinger Sommer” and “Gstaad Menuhin Festival” in Switzerland); with Angelika Luz (“Meisterkurse für Neue Musik” at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart); with Sara Mingardo (“Barocco Europeo” in Sacile-Italy). Since 2009, Antonella Schiazza has been a member of the opera choir of the Stadttheater Aachen, where she has also appeared as a soloist in various productions, including as Marcellina in “Le nozze di Figaro” by W. A. Mozart, as Speaker Femminile in “Superflumina” by S. Sciarrino, as solo soprano in the Mass in C major op. 86 by L. van Beethoven, as Shandel in the musical “The Fiddler on the Roof” by J. Bock, as Ciesca in “Gianni Schicchi” by Puccini.

The Italian is also studying interpreting and translation in English and German at the Università degli Studi “Gabriele D'Annunzio” in Pescara (Italy).

Soprano in the opera choir