PAOLA GARDINA
Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro
Mezzo-soprano
Born: Rovigo, February 25, 1976
Education: 2001, Conservatorio “F. Venezze” di Rovigo
Training Programs/Courses: 2002 Masterclass on Le nozze di Figaro, Maestro Desideri;1998 Masterclass with Maestro Serena Lazzarini and Maestro Danilo Rigosa
Awards: Winner (XXXII Edition of the “Toti del Monte” Competition) for the role of Tisbe in G. Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Roles/Experience: 2004 Meg, Falstaff (Teatro Verdi di Trieste); 2004 Mercedes, Carmen (Teatro Verdi di Trieste); 2004 Toured Brazil, Argentina, and Chile with “Dixit” and “Gloria” of Vivaldi; 2003 Tisbe, La Cenerentola (Teatro Eden di Treviso); 2003 “Mass in C minor” of Mozart (Teatro Giovanni da Udine and the l’orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia); Cast member in Il viaggio a Reims with Luciana Serra, Enzo Dara, Rockwell Blake, and Dario Fò (Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova); 2003 Floria, La Traviata (Busseto in collaboration with the Fondation Toscanini and Franco Zeffirelli); 2003 Floria, La Traviata (Cantanzaro); 2003 Floria, La Traviata (Bolshoi, Moscow); “Magnificat” and “Easter Oratorio” of Bach; 2003 Lady-in-Waiting to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino); 2002 Sacerdotessa, Aida; 2002 Old Lady, Candide (Festival di Pergine Spettacolo Aperto); participated in various contemporary music concerts, Opera Giovani (theaters in Rovigo in collaboration with Teatro La Fenice of Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Cremona, and Cagliari). These concerts were directed by Maestri P. Maag, G. Tate, E. Inbal, and C. Abbado; 2000 collaborated with the major musical associations of Veneto in “Athestis Chorus” directed by Maestro Filippo Maria Bressan and The National Orchestra of the RAI of Torino, and the “Venezze Consort directed by Giorgio Mazzucato; 2000 Toured France as Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia; 2000 Orfeo, Orfeo ed Euridice (Nuovo Coro Polifonico di Treviso); 1999 recorded “Oratorio de Noel” of C. Saint Saens; 1998 participated in a concert in honor of the tenor Giuseppe Giacobini in the occassion of the “Premio Martinelli”.