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Giovanna Lanza, mezzosoprano, completed her studies at Trapani’s Conservatory, devoting herself at the beginning to chamber music and to 18th Century operatic repertoire. She won several international competitions, among which the “Giuseppe Di Stefano” in Trapani.

She worked with Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Ravenna Festival for Sarti’s Giulio Sabino singing the role of Arminio (conducted by Ottavio Dantone).

          She sang the role of Melissa in Traetta’s Cavaliere errante; for Bongiovanni she recorded Dupont’s La Cabrera in the role of Teresita.
          She then enlarged her repertoire singing such roles as: Zita in Gianni Schicchi, La Marchesa ne La figlia del reggimento, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Fenena in Nabucco, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Carmen etc.
          She sang at Teatro Verdi in Trieste the roles of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (conductor F. M. Carminati, director F. Tiezzi ) and Seconda Corifea in Assassinio nella Cattedrale (conductor D. Renzetti, director U. Manani), at the Rome Opera the role of Die Aufseherin in Elektra (conductor W. Humburg, director H. Brockaus), at the Montepulciano Festival the role of Frugola in Tabarro (conductor J. Latham–Koenig), at Teatro Massimo in Palermo the role of Ninetta in I vespri Siciliani (conductor R. Weikert, director N. Joel), Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette (conductor F. M. Carminati, director A. Amodio) and Bersi in Andrea Chenier (conductor A. Licata, director G. Del Monaco).
          For Arena di Verona, in the concert season 2004/05, she performed Rossini’s cantata Giunone conducted by M° Claudio Scimone. With Wroclaw’s Orchestra she sang Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica conducted by M° J. Latham-Koenig. At Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza she sang the role of Vespetta in Albinoni’s Pimpinone with Solisti Veneti conducted by M° Claudio Scimone. She sang Verdi’s Messa di Requiem at Ara Coeli in Rome, and in Trieste she sang Pacitti’s Carmen de los corrales, on music by Georges Bizet, with great acclaim.
          In Poland, as a guest of the 40th edition of the Wratislavia Cantans International Festival, she performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig.

Among her recent engagements: Pergolesi’s and Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater in Wien, Venice and Montagnana, Mozart’s Requiem in Padova and Venice with Solisti Veneti and Cecilia Gasdia, Rossini’s Stabat Mater under Alberto Zedda, Ariadne auf Naxos (Dryade) in Bolzano and at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Suor Angelica (Badessa and Zia Principessa) and Il Turco in Italia (Zaida) at Teatro Verdi in Trieste, I Vespri Siciliani (Ninetta) in Japan with Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Maria Stuarda (Anna Kennedy) at Sferisterio in Macerata directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, Suor Angelica and Il Tabarro (Frugola) at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) in Cyprus with Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Carmen in Portugal.
Among her future engagements: Cavalleria rusticana (Lola) at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, La fanciulla del West at Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.