LIBUSE SANTORISOVA - SOPRANO
Email: liba@cbox.cz Mobile phone: 00393480859471
Address: via Dardanelli 23, 00195 Rome, Italy
Libuse Santorisova was born on July 2nd 1984 in Prague. From when she was a child, she studies violin, flute and piano at music school in Milevsko. She made her stage debut very young singing Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (2002). After Mirella Freni’s Masterclass in 2004 she moved to Italy to finish her studies on the stage of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. From 2013 she is taking part at Opera studio of Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Renata Scotto. Libuse is currently studing privately with soprano Barbara Bonney.
EDUCATION
2000-2007 Conservatory of Music Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
2004-2008 Opera stage – Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Italy
2013-2015 Opera studio Accademia Santa Cecilia Roma – Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi, Cesare Scarton
VOCAL TRAINING
TeacherDavid Jones 2014 -2016 NYC
Teacher Mauro Trombetta 2004-2009 Teatro dell’Opera, Rome
MASTERCLASSES
Brian Zeger (Metropolitan opera New York) , Mariella Devia, Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Peter Dvorsky
COMPETITIONS/AWARDS
• Winner of Italian TV talent show “Work in talent” Roma 2014
• Winner of Verdi contest (Awarded by Mirella Freni) Modena 2013
• Winner of Bel canto price , Czech republic, 2013
• Winner of Rome festival contest , 2009 Rome
• Winner of Singing completition of Domenico Cimarosa, Florence 2009
• Winner of Singing completition of Domenico Cimarosa , Florence 2007
• Winner of 2nd Prize at London competition of music, vocal category, London 2007
• Winner of 2nd Medaille at UFAM singing competition, Paris 2007
• Finalist of Lauri- Volpi contest (2nd in youth session) Latina 2008

Operatic experience 2019:

Nedda - Pagliacci - Leoncavalo - Parma Italy

Adaldisa- Norma- Bellini- Parma Italy

Adalgisa- Norma- Varna Bulgaria

Micaela- Carmen- Bizet- Roma Italy

Susanna- Le nozze di Figaro - Livorno Italy

OPERATIC EXPERIENCE 2018
• Concerts Tour with Josè Carreras, Beijing and Xiamen, China
• Marfa: Tsars bride – P. I. Rimskij Korsakov Pokrovsky theater, Moscow, Russia
• Donna Anna: Don Giovanni– W.A. Mozart : State opera Jerusalem, Izraele
• Micaela: Carmen – G. Bizet: Pokrovsky theater, Moscow, Russia
• Magda: La Rondine – G. Puccini: Varna State Opera, Bulgary
• Princess: Child and spell – M. Ravel: Varna State Opera, Bulgary
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi: Theater Margherita Roma , Italy
2017
• Carnegie Hall concert : New York , USA
• Contessa: Le nozze di Figaro - W.A.Mozart: New York lyric opera , USA
• Pamina: Die Zauberflote – W.A. Mozart : New York lyric opera , USA
• Donna Anna: Don Giovanni– W.A. Mozart : State opera Stara Zagora, Bulgary
• Fiordiligi: Cosi fan tutte– W.A. Mozart : Mancinelli teatro Orvieto, Italy
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi:, Mancinelli teatro Orvieto, Italy
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi: Theater Margherita Roma , Italy
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi:, Timisoara state opera, Romania
2016:donizetti
• Mimi: La Boheme - G.g. Puccini: Teatro Mancilelli Orvieto, Italy
• Leonora: Il Trovatore – G. Verdi, Usti nad Labem, Czech republic
• Magda: La Rondine– G. Puccini: New York lyric opera
• Cio-cio-san: Butterfly - G. Puccini: Stara Zagora, Bulgary
• Tatiana: Eugene Onegin – P.I. Tchaikovsky: Prokovsky theater, Moscow
• Adina: Elisir d’amore G. Donizetti : Rome opera festival , Italy
2015:
• Cio-cio-san: Butterfly - G. Puccini: Mancinelli teatro Orvieto, Italy
• Elizabetta: Don Carlo – G. Verdi: National music and opera center Sofia, Bulgaria
• Donna Elvira: Don Giovanni– W.A. Mozart : Mancinelli teatro Orvieto, Italy
• Cio-cio-san: Butterfly - G. Puccini: New York Lyric opera , USA
• Donna Elvira: Don Giovanni– W.A. Mozart : Rome opera festival , Italy
• Micaela: Carmen – G. Bizet: Rome opera festival , Italy
• Contessa: Le nozze di Figaro - W.A.Mozart: Rome opera festival , Italy
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi: Theater Margherita Roma , Italy
• Musetta: La Boheme - G.Puccini: Rome opera festival, Italy
2014:
• Leonora: Il Trovatore – G. Verdi: Orvieto , Italy
• Sieglinde : Die Walkure – R. Wagner – New York Lyric opera, USA
• Contessa: Le nozze di Figaro - W.A.Mozart: Rome opera festival , Italy
• Pamina: Die Zauberflote – W.A. Mozart : Rome opera festival, Italy
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi: Theater Margherita Roma , Italy
Precedent years:
• Violetta: Traviata – G. Verdi: “ I virtuosi d’opera” Rome 2012,
• Gilda:Rigoletto – G. Verdi: “ I virtuosi d’opera” Rome 2012,
• Cio-cio-san: Butterfly - G. Puccini: Sardegna 2011
• Musetta: La Boheme - G.Puccini: Rome opera festival 2010
• Frasquita: Carmen - G. Bizet: Rome opera festival 2009
• Lauretta: Gianni Schicchi - G. Puccini: Foundation “Bassi” Rome 2009
• Sandrina: La finta giardiniera - W.A.Mozart : Cimarosa opera festival 2008
• Musetta: La Boheme - G.Puccini: Academy “Opera house” Rome 2006
• Fiordispina: Impressario in angustie – D. Cimarosa: Florence Cimarosa festival 2006
• Contessa: Le nozze di Figaro - W.A.Mozart: Ceske Budejovice 2004
• Belinda: Dido e Aeneas - H. Purcell: Ceske Budejovice 2002
SELECTED CONCERTS/RECITALS
• solo recital of russian opera aria in National opera house of Makedonia, Skople 2016
• Concert performance of Wagner's Die Walkure (Sieglinde) – Paris, France 2013
• Recitals in Germany (Hamburg -Laeiszhalle , Frankfurkt – Jahrhundertshalle, Bremen- Die Glocke,
Hannover- Großer Sendesaal im Ndr) Conductor: Lukas Beichkircher, tenor Antonino Interisano 2011-2012
• Recitals in Germany (Munchen – Herculesaal, Frankfurkt – Jahrhundertshalle, Bremen) Conductor:
Lukas Beichkircher, tenor Antonino Interisano 2010-2011
• Recitals with baritone Carlo Morini and Parma opera choir in Busseto Teatro Verdi 2010
• Recitals in Germany (Munchen – Gasteig, Frankfurkt – Jahrhundertshalle, Bremen, Tubingen)
Conductor: Lukas Beichkircher, tenor Antonino Interisano, 2009-2010
• soprano part in “Stabat mater” G. B. Pergolesi Conductor: Jaroslav Vodnansky, Milevsko 2011
• “Exutate jubilate” - W. A. Mozart Conductor: Jaroslav Vodnansky, Milevsko 2007
• soprano part in "Misa brevis in f" - J. Haydn Conductor: Jaroslav Vodnansky, Pisek 2003
LANGUAGES
Singing Czech, Slovak, Polish, Italian, French, English, German, Russian
Speaking Fluent in Czech, Italian and English; basic German and French