GESUA GALLIFOCO
soprano

RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS

- Solo part in Mozart's Requiem, at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2027);

- First Prize at the Concurso Internacional de Canto Alfredo Kraus 2025;

- Liù in Puccini's Turandot, with Opera Prima Wien (2025);

- First Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova (2025), Teatro Comunale di Piacenza (2025), and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara (2024);

- Solo part in Britten's Les Illuminations Op. 18, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria (2025);

- Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, by the Fondazione Guido d'Arezzo (2025);

- Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème, with Orchestra Magna Grecia (2024);

- Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, at the Honam Opera Company, South Korea (2023);

- Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara (2023);

- Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, at the Teatro Marrucino di Chieti (2022);

- Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, at Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, and Teatro Sociale di Como (2022);

- Sophie in Massenet's Werther, at the Teatro Verdi di Pisa (2022);

- Maria Rosaria in Nino Rota's Napoli Milionaria, at Teatro Verdi di Pisa and Teatro Goldoni di Livorno (2022).

BIOGRAPHY

Winner of the 20th International Voice Competition Alfredo Kraus 2025, Italian soprano Gesua Gallifoco (1996) graduated “cum laude” from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Como and furthered her studies at the Rodolfo Celletti Belcanto Academy, where she participated in masterclasses with internationally renowned conductors and directors. She is also of the winners of 73th Concorso AsLiCo 2022, having as prize the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni, on tour by several theatres.

At the age of 21, she made her operatic debut in the role of Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, directed by Gianmaria Aliverta. She has since performed on several Italian stages, such as Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova and Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, where she sang the role of First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

She has performed many leading roles, including Norina in Don Pasquale, Musetta in La Bohème, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; and Zerlina at Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, and Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona. She has also appeared as Sophie in Werther by Jules Massenet at Teatro Verdi in Pisa, and as Maria Rosaria in Napoli Milionaria by Nino Rota at Teatro Goldoni di Livorno and Teatro del Giglio di Lucca.

In 2023, she started her international career, debuting the role of Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto in Jeonju, South Korea, and in 2025, Gesua debuted the role of Liù in Turandot at the Operaprima Wien Festival.

She has collaborated with distinguished conductors and directors such as Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Stefano Ranzani, Gianna Fratta, Davide Livermore, Mario Martone, Daniele Abbado, Manu Lalli, and Henning Brockhaus.

She recently made her debut at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, singing the soprano solo in Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten.

Among her next engagements, Gesua Gallifoco will sing the solo part in Mozart’s Requiem, at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in the 2026/27 season.

REVIEWS

"The winner of this edition was the Italian soprano Gesua Gallifoco, a singer who first interpreted a remarkable 'Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante' from Bizet's Carmen with excellent taste and careful French diction and, subsequently, 'Sì, mi chiamano Mimì' from Puccini's Bohème, an aria in which she brought out the best of herself, with a great interpretation with a full voice, careful expressiveness and excellent phrasing."
Fernando Sens Rivière - Ópera Actual

"First Prize: Gesua Gallifoco (soprano / Italy). A lyric soprano, continuing the glorious Italian tradition of lyric sopranos, with a creamy timbre, seamless range, and excellent projection, she delivered an expressive and nuanced Micaela's aria from Bizet's Carmen and Mimì's aria from the first act of Puccini's La Bohème, in which her free breathing allowed her to recreate the sweeping legato phrases with admirable control of volume, including impeccable pianissimos and a spectacular crescendo to culminate the central part of Mimì's aria."
Juan Francisco Román Rodríguez - Ritmo.it

"Gesua Gallifoco was a Norina with beautiful vocal expansion and solid technique and musicality, which allowed her to precisely unleash all the acciaccaturas of 'So anch’io la virtù magica' and to lavishly deliver cadences and punctuations in C and D flat, both written and unwritten. (...) The overall performance of the character was also good, well differentiated scenically and in phrasing to render the viperine prima donna who enchants and manipulates."
Domenico Ciccone - Operaclick

GESUA GALLIFOCO soprano

GESUA GALLIFOCO
soprano