Biography
She is appreciated by critics, who called her “an up and coming Artist” comparing her voice to great artists of the past; Chiara Bonzagni has won wide acclaim for every performance in the Italian and international opera scene promising a great future.
She worked with renowned artists including Fabio Armiliato, Mastromarino Alberto, Alberto Gazale, Laura Brioli, Sarah M’Punga, Luca Salsi, Kristin Lewis, Walter Fraccaro, Enrico Iori, Katia Ricciarelli, etc. She sings in six languages: Italian, German, French, Spanish (De Falla), Latin (sacred repertoires from the great authors) and English (Purcell - Britten).
Among the recent engagements, we highlight the opera Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano in the role of Mary Magdalene at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in January 2015 (director Maurizio Agostini) and at the Opera House in Ghent (Belgium - Director Geert Soenen) and Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni in the role of Santuzza produced by Venice Effect in collaboration with the Goldoni Theatre in Livorno and her performance as a soprano soloist alongside Fabio Armiliato and Alberto Mastromarino on the occasion of the XIX "Giuseppe Lugo" Award in 2012, awarded to Fabio Armiliato, and organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Arena di Verona, Philharmonic Academy and held in Verona .
In 2010, she takes on the roles of Desdemona in Othello by Giuseppe Verdi in Italy and Gulnara in Il Corsaro in the work of Giuseppe Verdi at the Theatre of Bilbao under the direction of Renato Palumbo, and subsequently held a concert with tenor Walter Fraccaro with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Venice in Treviso.
In 2009, she sang in the role of Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (Tosca) in Venice and in Anzio; Abigail in Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi in Verona and Alassio; Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni in Treviso and at the Regional Festival of Molise. She also sang the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in German-speaking Switzerland under the direction of Henry Fischer; the role of Violetta in La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi in Venice; the role of Leonora in Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi in Mantua and Imperia. In the same year, she held a recital in Japan and attended the Bregenz Festival in Austria in the role of Aida from the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi in concert form.
In March and April of 2008, she made her debut in the role of Violetta in La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi in Sao Paulo, Brazil under the direction of Emiliano Patarra, following with an encore in the same role in Pamplona, Spain and Italy. In June 2008, in an authoritative Italian monthly review named "L’ Opera", Norberto Modena writes “the interpretation of soprano Chiara Bonzagni stands-out, she delivered a moving Violetta Valery “di bel timbro e bei pianissimi”. In the same year, she sang in an opera recital at Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Japan. In October of the same year, she is asked to sing Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (Tosca) and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi (Lady) in Italy.
In 2007, she interprets Nabucco as Abigail in Poland’s State Theatres in Bytom and Katowice under the direction of Tadeusz Serafin. In the same year, she made her debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni in Livorno and Massa Carrara, and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro Comunale, Latina, Italy. She made her debut in the role of Abigale in Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi in Mantua in 2006.
In 2005, she was a finalist at the International Singing Competition "Gaetano Fraschini” of Pavia. Her initiation in the activities of an artist must take into account her performance and roles in Tactus, The Resurrection of Christ by L. Perosis with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Verona, and her performance in Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in Pordenone, as well as, The Paraphrase of Christus by Gaetano Donizetti in Venice. During this period, her artistic activities expanded as a ‘concertistica’ singing in a variety of concerts: sacred music, chamber music, and opera in Italian cities such as: Venice, Treviso, Cesena (Bonci Theatre), Bergamo (the Donizetti Theatre) and other international centers.
She began her musical training at the age of eight, studying violin with Maestro Ernesto Doimo. She pursued her studies in singing (vocals) and graduated at the Music Conservatory "Benedetto Marcello” in Venice.