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"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

The sicilian soprano Lucia Aliberti was awarded a diploma with special recognition from the Conservatory in Messina while she was still very young. She studied with Luigi Ricci in Rome, with Herbert von Karajan and Alfredo Kraus.Musician and composer, while studying singing, she was also studying the piano and other musical instruments like guitar, accordion, violin and mandolin. She has composed many pieces for piano, clarinet, flute and voice.
After winning the Spoleto and ENAL competitions, she began her artistic career as Amina in Bellinis “La Sonnambula” in Spoleto at the festival dei Due Mondi under the direction of Giancarlo Menotti. She sings at the world’s major theatres: The Metropolitan Opera in New York, Washington Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Scala in Milan, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Hamburg Staatsoper, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Vienna State Opera, Opera House Zurich, Bolshoi in Moscow, Royal Opera Stockholm, Teatro Real in Madrid, Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and Bunka Kaikan Tokyo. She gives concerts in leading concert-houses of the world: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, KKL Lucerne, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Theatre Champs-Elysée Paris, Auditorium Milano, Philharmonie Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Herkulessaal Munich, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Seoul Arts Center and Carnegie Hall New York.
She works with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti and Kent Nagano.
She supports UNESCO and UNICEF with concerts, she sang for Pope Johannes Paul II. at the Vatican, Queen Sirikit of Thailand in Bangkok, Prince Charles of England, German President Horst Köhler and Prince Hiro of Japan.
Her natural vocal talents are enhanced by a technique which allows her to sustain even the most difficult parts in the “Belcanto”-repertory. International critics have also underlined her particular stage presence. She is considered a specialist in the repertory of Bellini (Norma, La Sonnambula, Il Pirata, I Puritani, I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Beatrice di Tenda, La Straniera). The other most important composers in her repertory are Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia, L’ elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, La fille du régiment Linda di Chamounix), Rossini (Semiramide, Tancredi), and Verdi (La Traviata, Rigoletto, Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra).

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