Bergamo – Italy
Italian soprano, Francesca Tiburzi’s most recent engagements have included the title role in Tosca at The Grange Festival in the UK, at Metz Métropole, and at the Royal Danish Opera in the 2025/2026 Season, the title role in La Gioconda at the Hungarian State Opera and at the Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania during 2024, where she returned to appear as Hannah Glawary in The Merry Widow in 2025/2026. She sang the role of Cristina in Giordano’s Mala Vita at the 2026 Wexford Festival.
Tiburzi was born in Bergamo and made her debut in 2013 playing Violetta Valery in La Traviata, and has subsequently appeared as Tosca at Opera di Roma, Teatro del Maggio in Florence, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Lirico Cagliari, and in Trieste, Udine, Pordenone, Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at Teatro PergolesiJesi.
Her appearances for La Scala Milan include the title role of La Gioconda in 2022.
She has appeared in the title role of Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Filarmonico Verona and was also engaged to sing the Priestess in the 2018 arena production of Aida, has appeared as Aida at the Aspendos Opera Festival in Turkey and also at the Prague State Opera, was engaged for Giorgetta in Il Tabarro at the Aalto Theatre Essen where she has also sung La Gioconda, as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and also in Metz, Essen, for Opéra de Québec and at Teatro Rendano Cosenza, for Leonora in La Forza del destino in Bologna, for the lead soprano roles in Il Trittico at the Taormina Festival, for Anna Bolena, Alaide in La Straniera and Imogene in Il Pirata all at the Teatro Bellini Catania; Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Metz Opera where she returned for Nedda in I Pagliacci, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, for Tosca and Cio-Cio San.
Tiburzi’s concert appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Sassari and at the Teatro Antico in Taormina, the Petite Messe Solennelle at the Filarmonico in Verona, Shostakovich’s 16th Symphony: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti Op. 145 with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto at the Teatro Verdi in Padua, and also gala opera concerts in Taormina.
RECORDINGS
Tosca – Royal Danish Opera 2025
La Gioconda – Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania, 2024
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