Cinzia De Mola, mezzosoprano – contralto
Cinzia De Mola made her debut as the lead at La Fenice in Venice at the age of 12, performing as Flora in The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten, under the direction of Maestro E. Gracis. The production was reprised when she was 14 at the Teatro Sociale in Como. At 15, she starred in Der Jasager by Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill at the Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo, directed by B. Campanella. The production was later revived in Como, Brescia, and Milan.
She has sung under the baton of conductors such as G. Gavazzeni, R. Muti, R. Chailly, D. Oren, M. Arena, B. Campanella, G. Gelmetti, N. Santi, Z. Peskó, Myung-Whun Chung, D. Gatti, and others.
She has worked with stage directors such as H. de Ana, F. Zeffirelli, G. Vick, L. Ronconi, G. Del Monaco, and others.
Since 2008, she held the position of professor at the G. Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, following an international career of over 46 years on major opera stages.
In 1989, she won the International Carlo Coccia Competition in Novara for the role of Beppe in L’Amico Fritz by P. Mascagni. The following year, in Cosenza, she was awarded first prize at the International Rendano Competition for her portrayal of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini, under a jury presided over by soprano Magda Olivero. In 1991, she reprised the same role alongside Raina Kabaivanska, conducted by Maestro Daniel Oren, at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.
In 1990, she made her debut in the title role of Carmen by Bizet in Novara: “… not only demonstrating a powerful voice, but also showing excellent stage presence…”
(L’Opera magazine).
Her character roles have been highly praised by both critics and audiences, including:
- La Fiamma by O. Respighi — Agnese at the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma (CD recording)
- I Quattro Rusteghi by W. Ferrari — Margarita
- Il Campiello by W. Ferrari — Orsola, recorded on CD and awarded the Le Timbrede Platine prize by Opera International magazine in Paris
- Il Cordovano by G. Petrassi — Hortigosa
- Oedipe by G. Enescu — The Sphinx
- Romanza by S. Rendine — Donna Lina, world premiere at the Rome Opera House
- Falstaff by G. Verdi — Quickly in Liège (DVD)
- The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky — Baba the Turk
…and numerous other character roles.
Other operas include:
Il Trovatore, Carmen, Suor Angelica, M. Butterfly, Andrea Chenier, Cavalleria Rusticana, Gianni Schicchi, L’Italiana in Algeri, Così fan tutte, Linda di Chamounix, Rigoletto, Il matrimonio segreto, Le Nozze di Figaro, I pittori fiamminghi, Il tabarro, La Traviata, Wally, Die Walküre, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Evgenij Onegin, Die Zauberflöte, Boris Godunov, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Rusalka, and others.
Oratorios performed include:
Messiah by Handel, Gloria by Vivaldi, Tobias by Farinelli, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Requiem by Mozart, Magnificat by Bach, Missa pro Defunctis by Mannino, Messa Glagolitica by Janáček, and others.
Concert repertoire include:
El Amor Brujo by M. de Falla, Zápisník zmizelého (The Diary of One Who Disappeared) by L. Janáček, Dorfzenen by B. Bartók, Il Tramonto by O. Respighi, among others.
Tours in Japan and Korea:
- 1994 with the Rome Opera House
- 1998 with the Bologna Teatro Comunale
- 2000 with La Scala Theatre in Milan
- 2001, invited directly by The Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo
- 2006 again with the Bologna Teatro Comunale
- 2010 in Korea with the G. Verdi Theatre of Trieste
Discography:
- Agrippina (G.F. Handel) – Audio CD
- La Bohème (R. Leoncavallo) – Audio CD
- Il Campiello (E. Wolf-Ferrari) – Audio CD
- Il Campanello (G. Donizetti) with Leo Nucci – Audio CD
- La Fiamma (O. Respighi) – Audio CD
- Oprichnik (P.I. Tchaikovsky) – Audio CD
- Andrea Chénier (U. Giordano) with A. Bocelli – Audio CD
- Andrea Chénier (U. Giordano) with J. Cura – Video DVD
- Gianni Schicchi (G. Puccini), Teatro alla Scala – Video DVD, also broadcastworldwide on Sky Classica satellite channel
- Cavalleria Rusticana (P. Mascagni) – Video DVD
- Falstaff (G. Verdi), performed live in Liège and broadcast worldwide – Video DVD
- Madama Butterfly (G. Puccini), Sferisterio Macerata, televised on Rai Due