Carolina Lippo

Soprano

INTRODUCTION

Winner of the Stella Maris Competition, Carolina Lippo studied at the “Rodolfo Celletti” Belcanto Academy in Martina Franca in collaboration with the Itria Valley Festival under Stefania Bonfadelli, Lella Cuberli, Sonia Prina and Vittorio Terranova, She had previously graduated in Piano from the “G. Paisiello” in Taranto and in Singing and Scenic Art at the “G.B. Martini” of Bologna.

As a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Theater an der Wien, her repertoire included Norina Don Pasquale, Ifigenia Oreste, Despina Così fan tutte, Antiope in Porpora’s Arianna a Nasso and Ernestina in Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi. She has returned to sing Merab Saul, Crobyle Thaïs and The Angel Elias.

Highlights of her career have included Romilda in Cavalli’s Serse at Festival della Valle d’Itria, Corilla Scortichini Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali at Teatro Coccia, Novara, Adina L’elisir d’amore, Carolina Il matrimonio segreto and Ernestina La scuola de’ gelosi at Teatro Regio, Turin, Nina Il giovedi grasso at Teatro delle Muse, Ancona, Ifigenia Oreste at Oper Halle, Despina Cosi fan tutte for Nevill Holt Opera, Zerlina Don Giovanni at Teatro della Fortuna, Fano, Sandrina La finta giardiniera for the 30^th Niedersächsiche Musiktage, Hannover, Susanna Le nozze di Figaro at Semperoper Dresden and Teatro Olimpico, Vincenza, the title role in Paisiello La Semiramide in villa for the 12^th Giovanni Paisiello Festival, Clorinda La cenerentola for The Grange Festival and Giulia La scala di seta at Teatro Comunale, Sassari, and Ernestina La scuola de’ gelosi at Oper Köln.

Carolina Lippo has worked with conductors including Laurence Cummings, Rubén Dubrovsky, Fabio Luisi, Omer Meir Welber, David Parry, Christophe Rousset, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Federico Maria Sardelli and with directors such as Mariame Clément, Calixto Bietio, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, Peter Konwitschny, Barrie Kosky, Pier Luigi Pizzi and Keith Warner.

Her recordings include La donna serpent (Bongiovanni DVD), Il Xerse (Dynamic Blu-Ray), Don Cecco (Dynamic CD), Thaïs (Unitel DVD / Blu-Ray), Le nozze di Figaro (Velut Luna DVD), La Semiramide in villa (Bongiovanni CD) and Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (Dynamic CD).

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REVIEWS

Despina: Così fan tutte / The Grange Festival 2023

“Carolina Lippo makes a knowing, assertive Despina…”

The Guardian

“Carolina Lippo as Despina dispensed her various, aria-length homilies with great eloquence and delivered her male impersonations with comic poise.”

Opera

“Carolina Lippo delivered Despina’s notes with total security.”

Opera Now

“Carolina Lippo “Carolina Lippo’s Despina was alert and knowing, no mere caricatuire.”

Opera Today

“Carolina Lippo’s Despina is delivered with style…”

The Stage

“…Carolina Lippo’s eye-rolling, idiomatic Despina.”

The Telegraph

Romilda: Il Xerse / Festival della Valle d’Itria 2022

“The star role is Romilda, which Carolina Lippo brings to vibrant life with all the necessary vocal virtuosity.”

Forum Opéra

Ernestina: La scuola de’ gelosi / Teatro Regio, Turin, 2022

“Ernestina is played with confidence and elegance by Carolina Lippo, who gives a splendid performance in a role to which Salieri allocates much demanding writing, especially in the upper register.”

L’Ape Musicale

“Carolina Lippo sang the taxing ‘Staremo in pace e giubilo’’ with enviable energy and fine coloratura.”

Opera

Corilla Scortichini: Le convenienze ed inconvenieze teatrali / Teatro Coccia, Novara, 2022

“Carolina Lippo’s Corilla shines, the soprano possessing a middle register that fascinates with its purity and richness of harmonics, but also with a luminous upper register. The interpolated aria, “O lue di quest’ anima”, taken from Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix whose demands of agility show Lippo’s technical control and precision. She also triumphs as an actress, portraying with irony the strengths and weaknesses of a true Prima Donna.”

Opera Libera

Despina: Così fan tutte / Nevill Holt Opera 2019

“Best of all in this very good cast was Carolina Lippo as Despina: a young Italian soprano, vivacious and captivating, as well as having just the right voice(s) for Despina’s activities as maid, quack and notary.”

Opera

“At the epicentre of the intrigue is Carolina Lippo’s hard-bitten Despina…”

The Stage

Norina: Don Pasquale / Wiener Kammeroper 2017

“Carolina Lippo dominated the whole evening with her fantastic stage presence, her gloriously comic facial expressions, and above all with her virtuoso bel canto performance.”

Klassik Begeistert

DISCOGRAPHY

Casella La donna serpente (role of La Confea)
Zuzana Marková, Angelo Villari, Davide Giangregorio, Carmine Monaco
Chorus of the Transylvania State Philharmonic
Orchestre Internazionale d’Italia / Fabio Luisi
Bongiovanni DVD AB 20031

Cavalli Il Xerse (role of Romilda)
Gaia Petrone, Ekaterina Protsenki, Carlo Vistola, Carlo Allemano
Modo Antiqua / Federico Maria Sardelli
Dynamic Blu-Ray 57983

De Giosa Don Checco (role of Fiorina)
Paolo Canteruccio, Francesco Castoro, Domenico Colaianni, Carmine Monaco
Chorus of the Transylvania State Philharmonic,
Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca / Matteo Beltrami
Dynamic CDS 7737 / 1-2

Massenet Thaïs (role of Crobyle)
Nicole Chevalier, Josef Wagner
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Leo Hussain
Unitel DVD 804908 / Blu-Ray 805004

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (role of Susanna)
Patrizia Biccirè, Margherita Rotondi, Marco Bussi, Daniele Caputo, Antonio de Gobbi
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto / Giovanni Battista Rigon
Velut Luna DVLD 001

Paisiello La Semiramide in Villa (role of Madama Tenerina)
Irene Molinari, Fabio Perillo, Pasquale Arcamone
Orchestra da camera del Giovanni Paisiello Festival / Giovanni di Stefano
Bongiovanni CD GB2486-87

Spontini Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (role of Lisetta)
Michela Antenucci, Daniele Adriani, Antonio Garés, Baurzhan Anderzhanov,
Davide Bartolucci
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini / Giuseppe Montesano
Dynamic CDS 7836.02

Carolina Lippo

Soprano

INTRODUCTION

REVIEWS

DISCOGRAPHY

GALLERY

AUDIO

Carolina Lippo sings O luce di quest'anima from Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix