Romina Basso

Born in Gorizia, Romina Basso studied voice at the B. Marcello Conservatory in Venice and earned a degree in Italian literature from the University of Trieste.

She further refined her training through masterclasses with Peter Maag and Regina Resnik, Rockwell Blake and Claudio Desderi, and Elio Battaglia and Claudio Strudthoff, developing a particular focus on the Baroque and Rossini repertoire.

She performs regularly throughout Europe, appearing at major venues and festivals including the Wiener Konzerthaus; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; La Monnaie in Brussels; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel in Paris; the Opéra de Montpellier, Opéra de Bordeaux and Opéra de Nîmes; the Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London; the Edinburgh Festival; the Glyndebourne Opera Festival; the Teatro Real and Auditorio Nacional in Madrid; Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow; the Via Stellae Festival in Santiago de Compostela; the Lucerne Festival; the Mainzer MusikSommer Festival; La Folle Journée in Nantes; the Festival d’Avignon; the Beaune Festival; the Festival of Early Music in Utrecht; the Festival van Vlaanderen in Bruges; the Misteria Paschalia and Opera Rara festivals in Kraków; the Philharmonie in Bratislava; as well as in Warsaw and St Petersburg, at the Potsdam Musikfestspiele Sanssouci, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, and at the Megaron and the Onassis Foundation in Athens.

Beyond Europe, she has appeared in the United States at the Lincoln Center in New York, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and in Japan (T okyo, Kyoto and Osaka), Korea, and Australia (Melbourne).

She has collaborated with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including Accademia Bizantina, I Barocchisti, Concerto Italiano, Il Complesso Barocco, Cappella della Pietà de’Turchini, Le Concert des Nations, Capella Cracoviensis, Europa Galante, Ensemble 415, Ensemble Matheus, Latinitas Nostra, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, The King’s Consort, Modo Antiquo, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the RSO Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ricercar Consort, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, ORT, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and Zefiro.

She has worked with many distinguished conductors from both the modern and Baroque traditions, including Peter Maag, Marcello Viotti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Jurowski, Kazushi Ono, Jordi Savall, Frans Brüggen, Alan Curtis, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Marc Minkowski, William Christie, Paul McCreesh, Emmanuelle Haïm, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ottavio Dantone, Philippe Pierlot, Chiara Banchini, Diego Fasolis, Andrea Marcon, Robert King, Antonio Florio, Daniele Gatti and Gabriele Ferro.

Her discography includes releases for Kikko Classic, Bongiovanni, Mirare and Fuga & Ricercar (Porpora: Notturni per i defunti); for Deutsche Grammophon, Vivaldi’s Motezuma and Handel’s Tolomeo; for Naïve, Vivaldi’s Atenaide, New Discoveries, Armida, L’Olimpiade, Orlando furioso (1714), Catone in Utica, Dorilla in Tempe, and Lamento, a solo album devoted to seventeenth-century repertoire; for Glossa, Handel’s Italian Cantatas, Volumes 4 and 5; for Classic Voice, Handel’s Vespro Carmelitano; for FraBernardo, Veracini’s Adriano in Siria; for EMI/Virgin, Vivaldi’s Ercole sul T ermodonte, L’Oracolo in Messenia and Handel’s Berenice; Giulio Cesare for MDG and Naïve; the sacred music of Galuppi and Jommelli and Mitologia by Handel for Sony / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi; Voces de Sefarad for Brilliant Classics; Scarlatti’s Carlo, re d’Alemagna for Agogique; and Baroque Divas and Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria for Decca.