BIOGRAPHY

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Italian mezzo-soprano Chiara Tirotta graduated in Opera Singing at the Conservatory F. Cilea in Reggio Calabria, studying with her father, Gaetano Tirotta. In 2014, she won the First Prize at the Comunità Europea del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale A. Belli Competition in Spoleto and made her debut as Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi Eleonor in Donatoni’s Alfred, Alfred, under the direction of Marco Angius.

As former member of Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Chiara made her debut at the renowned opera house as Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Laldomine in Giordano’s La Cena delle Beffe, Un Pâtre in Ravel’s L'Enfant et les Sortilèges and Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata, a role she also sang at the Arena di Verona. Since then, she developped an international career: Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte (Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, New Dubai Opera House, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and Teatro Cilea di Reggio Calabria), Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and Teatro Comunale di Bologna), Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Teatro alla Scala, ORW-Liège, Shanghai Opera House, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and Romanian Opera Craiova), Angelina in La Cenerentola (Teatro Cilea, Teatro Municipal de Lima and La Scala), Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Enrichetta di Francia in Bellini’s I Puritani (Teatro San Carlo di Napoli), Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther (Verona), Marianna in Il Signor Bruschino and Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro), the title role in Bizet’s Carmen (Luglio Musicale Trapanese) and Mercedes in Carmen (Teatro Regio di Parma), among others.

In the baroque opera field, Chiara Tirotta has performed as Bradamante in Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso, at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, and Serpilla in Orlandini’s Serpilla e Bacocco, at the Teatro Cilea. In the concert music, she also sang some oratorios such as Der Messiah by G. F. Händel, Petite Messe Solennelle and Messa di Gloria by G. Rossini.

The 2025/26 season started for Chiara Tirotta with a role debut as Carmen, at the Luglio Musicale Trapanese. Then, she will sing Rosina at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte, at Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Grande di Brescia and Teatro Fraschini di Pavia; Enrichetta in I Puritani, at the Teatro Regio di Torino; and Agnese in Cilea’s La Tilda, at the Cilea Opera Festival.  

In the 2024/25 season, she started as Angelina in La Cenerentola, at the Luglio Musicale Trapanese. Following the season, she sang Marcellina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Teatro Regio di Torino; the alto solo in Händel’s Der Messiah, with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Romanian Opera Craiova. She closed the season as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.

Highlights of C. Tirotta’s 2023/24 season include Angelina at Teatro Municipal de Lima and Teatro dell’Aquila di Ancona; Rosina at Teatro alla Scala, Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and Shanghai Opera House; and Serpilla in Serpilla e Bacocco, in Reggio Calabria. As stage director, Chiara co-signed the concept of Le Nozze di Figaro, alongside Gaetano Tirotta, at Cilea’s theatre in R. Calabria.

In the 2022/22 season, she sang Rosina at Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Politeama Greco di Lecce; Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther, Cherubino and the alto solo in Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona; a concert at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Enrichetta in I Puritani at the Teatro San Carlo and Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma, bt the Teatro Cilea.    

Alongside, she develops a career as stage director signing productions of Le Nozze di Figaro and La Traviata for the project Scuola all’Opera, at the Teatro Cilea di Reggio Calabria.