Elisabetta Paglia

Elisabetta Paglia: After obtaining a diploma in singing at the Conservatorio “Gesualdo da Venosa” of Potenza with prof.

Pina Buono, Elisabetta Paglia followed post-diploma courses in Milan with Sylvia Rhys-Thomas, Enrico Fissore, Vincenzo Manno, Francesca Scaini, Marco Munari and Gabriella Sborgi. In 1998 she sang the role of Maria in Respighi’s Lauda per la Natività del Signore at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine. Other solo appearances have included Vivaldi’s Gloria, Stabat Mater and Nisi Dominus, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Nelsonmesse, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, Brahms’s Liebeslieder and the roles of Eugenia in Il Filosofo di Campagna (Galuppi), Cherubino and Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Così fan Tutte, Siébel in Faust (Gounod), the Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Tisbe in La Cenerentola (Rossini). She has collaborated as soloist with various choirs and instrumental groups under conductors including M. Beltrami, M. Benaglia, M. Valsecchi, E. Breda, A. Iannarone, Xiang Zhang, A. Ceccato, H. Rilling, Jader Bignamini, Ruben Jais, Erina Gambarini, Claus Peter Flor, Shi-Hung Young. She is a founder member of “Le tenere armonie”, a quartet which organizes themed concerts embracing chamber music, opera, operetta, Neapolitan and American song, as well as solo arias and duets. She has a wide repertoire ranging from the 18th century to the present day and has appeared with numerous concert organizations in Milan, Turin, Brescia, Lecco, Roma, Florence, Aosta, Massa Carrara, Munich, Vienna, Wittenberg and Salzburg. She has appeared on RAI and LA7 television. She has recorded 3 CDs for Sheva Collection: “Passé”, dedicated to romantic song in Italy, “My Heart is like Singing Bird”, settings of Christina Rossetti by British composers, mostly from the early 20th century, and “Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love”, a recital of songs by F.H. Cowen. The present Stanford disc is the first of two.