EMMA ALESSI INNOCENTI

The Florentine mezzo-soprano Emma Alessi Innocenti graduated in Voice from the Conservatorio Cherubini with Gianni Fabbrini and earned her diploma from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in 2025 under the guidance of Sara Mingardo. She made her debut at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Seconda Conversa in Suor Angelica (2019) and performed in a concert featuring music by Vivaldi and Lully (2023). She has sung the roles of Megacle in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade (Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 2020) and Galatea in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (2023). In 2024, she won first prize at the 78th Singing Competition of the Teatro Sperimentale A. Belli di Spoleto, leading to performances in the 2024 season in the roles of Paola in Chailly’s Procedura penale and Eurilla in Sarro’s Eurilla e Beltramme.

The program ranges from classicism to verismo, exploring characters of great dramatic power. The first round opens with Dorabella’s aria from Così fan tutte, in which the young woman laments her lover’s absence with a comic exaggeration. This is followed by Stéphano’s aria from Roméo et Juliette, a mischievous and virtuosic piece where Romeo’s page provokes the Capulets by pretending to look for a dove. The semifinal features three intensely dramatic pieces: the first is Sesto’s aria from La clemenza di Tito, in which the young man expresses his inner torment before an assassination attempt. This is followed by Arsamenes’ fury in “Crude furie degl’orridi abissi” from Serse, an outburst of jealous rage. The program concludes with Annina’s intense plea in “Ah! Michele, don’t you know” from The Saint of Bleecker Street, in which the devout girl begs her brother to stop opposing her religious calling.