For many years, Arianna Vendittelli performed as a Zwischenfach soprano, specializing in trouser roles, particularly in the Baroque repertoire, before fully embracing Mozart and bel canto as a mezzo-soprano, earning widespread acclaim.
Born in Rome, Arianna showed a great interest in music from a very young age. She first studied violin before focusing exclusively on singing. She graduated with highest honours from the Conservatorio Antonio Buzzolla in Adria, perfecting her singing with Mariella Devia.
Arianna made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Carmi in Mozart’s Betulia liberata under Riccardo Muti with whom she also appeared in Vivaldi’s Magnificat in Lourdes and Loreto.
She recently headlined I Grotteschi, a new twofold performance distilled from the Monteverdi trilogy conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón and directed by Rafael R. Villalobos at La Monnaie.
Since her debut at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik in the world premiere of Cesti’s Nozze in sogno led by Enrico Onofri, Arianna has appeared regularly with the festival and was heard, under Alessandro De Marchi, in the title role of Bernardo Pasquini’s Idalma, as Argia in the first modern performance of Merope by Riccardo Broschi, as Vagaus in Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans and, more recently, under Ottavio Dantone in the title role in Geminiano Giacomelli’s Cesare in Egitto in a new Leo Muscato staging.
Arianna starred as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in the Da Ponte Trilogy which Marc Minkovsky and Ivan Alexandre presented in the 2022/2023 season at the Liceu Barcelona, Opéra national de Bordeaux and Opéra Royal de Versailles. She returned to the role of Donna Elvira under Francesco Corti for both the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and the Palau de la Música in Valencia. She also appeared as Fiordiligi in Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging of Così fan tutte in several Italian theatres as well as for the Opéra de Lausanne under Diego Fasolis.
She has been highly acclaimed for her interpretations of Rossini, singing the title role in Ermione conducted by Alessandro De Marchi and Amaltea in Mosè in Egitto with Stefano Montanari, both for the Naples Teatro di San Carlo. Arianna was Giovanna in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena under Diego Fasolis in Lugano, Reggio Emilia, Modena and Piacenza.
Recognized for her work in the Baroque repertoire, Arianna Vendittelli performed the title role in Hasse’s Semele at both the Theater an der Wien and Wigmore Hall, Alessandro in Handel’s Berenice with Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d’Oro at the Théâtre des Champs-Elyseés in Paris, Sesto in Giulio Cesare under Marc Minkowski at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, as well as the title role in Agrippina alongside Stéphane Fuget at the Beaune Festival.
Under the conduction of Ottavio Dantone, Arianna mastered the title role in Handel’s Serse on tour in Italy and Idaspe in Vivaldi’s Tamerlano, issued on Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition, at the Theater an der Wien. Still under Dantone’s baton, she performed as Minerva in Il Ritorno di Ulisse in patria in a Robert Carsen production for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and, in a Pier Luigi Pizzi staging, for the Teatro Alighieri Ravenna, where she also appeared as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Arianna’s solo album dedicated to Vivaldi’s cantatas for soprano and released in the Naïve Vivaldi Edition was designated “5 Classical Music Albums to hear right now” by The New York Times.
The 2026/2027 season will see Arianna Vendittelli performing Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone) at the Drottningholm Opera Festival (Francesco Corti/Benjamin Lazar), Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito (Sesto) in Ravenna, Piacenza, Ferrara, Parma, Trento (Ottavio Dantone/Chiara Muti), as well as Niccolò Piccini’s Zenobia (Tiridate) at the Teatro Petruzelli di Bari (Federico Maria Sardelli/Daniele Luchetti).
She will also team up with Il Pomo d’Oro for Porpora’s Mitridate (Oronta) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Real Madrid and Teatro Olimpico Vicenza and will return to the role of Minerva in Monteverdi’s Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria under Gianluca Capuano at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, a role they performed earlier for the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.
