Born in Udine, Annamaria Dell’Oste studied at the conservatoire “J. Tomadini” of her home town and graduated from the conservatoire “A. Boito” in Parma under Jenny Anvelt. She later studied style and interpretation with the soprano Renata Scotto. In April 1996 she won the first prize at the international competition “Ferruccio Tagliavini” in Deutschlandsberg (Austria). Since her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in 1994 with Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Virtù, Damigella; conductor Maestro Alberto Zedda), Annamaria Dell’Oste has demonstrated outstanding abilities as a singer and as an actress, and these make her one of the most accomplished artistes of the current generation. In past seasons she was an acclaimed performer in The Elixir of Love at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, Vienna’s Staatsoper, Berlin’s Staatsoper, Lisbon’s Teatro Sao Carlos and in Tenerife; in Bohème at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper and at the Orange Festival alongside Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu; in La Traviata at the Teatro Bellini in Catania and at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon; L’enfant et les sortilèges and The Magic Flute (The Queen of the Night) at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona; Lucia di Lammermoor in Bari, Capriccio (Cantata Italiana) at the Opéra National de Paris; Il trionfo delle belle at the Rossini Opera Festival; Die Fledermaus (Adele) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Medea in Lisbon, Toulouse and Chatelet in Paris. She has recently debuted to great acclaim in The Swallow (Lisette) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, a production that was also brought to the Toulouse and Châtelet in Paris. Remarkable are also her debuts as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa and in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta, as well as her performances in the role of Oscar in A Masked Ball at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and as Bohème’s Musetta in Cagliari, Modena, Piacenza and Ferrara. Also worth mentioning are her performance as Adina or Il Califfo di Bagdad at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia) at the Operhaus in Zurich and Les dialogues des Carmélites at the Teatro Verdi of Trieste and at the Teatro Bellini of Catania.

Her repertoire includes Gluck’s Armide (Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Alberto Muti and directed by Pierluigi Pizzi), Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Parma), Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo and La cambiale di matrimonio (Trieste),  L’italiana in Algeri (Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Piacenza and Amsterdam), Don Pasquale (Bologna), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Vienna), Così fan tutte (Bologna, Santiago de Chile), The Servant Mistress, Cinderella (Rome), Der Rosenkavalier (Trieste), La Juiveand Don Giovanni (Tel Aviv), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Palermo), The Canterville Ghost (Modena), Werther (Lecce) and the absolute first-time execution of Berio’s Outis (Teatro alla Scala, directed by Graham Vick).

Her recent concert activity has seen her perform with the Associazione Arena Sferisterio of Macerata in Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia in an Oratorio by Scarlatti in a recital with Lu Jia in Peking, and in Carmina Burana and Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. She also appeared as a soloist in concerts at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania (Bellinian arias), at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Bach’s Cantate), in Florence (Missa in Tempore Belli conducted by Zubin Mehta) and in Vienna (with the Giardino Armonico, music by Hasse and Pergolesi). She also featured in the Carmina Burana at the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari and with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome, where she appeared as Il Paradiso and La Peri, conducted by Maestro Sawallish, to great acclaim. She also performed Mozart’s Requiem KV 626 at the Teatro Regio in Parma accompanied by the Orchestra Arturo Toscanini conducted by Maestro Gandolfi, Donizetti’s Requiem at the Opera in Rome conducted by Maestro Myung Whun-Chung, as well in the acclaimed Improvisations I and II by Pierre Boulez with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. She recently performed Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater touring with the Orchestra della Toscana conducted by Maestro Hogwood.

Among her engagements in recent seasons are Medea and The Swallow at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, The Silken Ladder at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin conducted by Maestro Zedda, Bohème at the Orange Festival, and a concert at the Arena of Verona with Andrea Bocelli (conducted by Maestro Steven Mercurio). Much applauded were also her performances at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie of Brussels in The Journey to Reims, in Mexico City in Rigoletto (touring with Parma’s Teatro Regio), at the Teatro Massimo of Palermo and at the Teatro Verdi of Trieste in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and at the Teatro Rosalia of La Coruna with the world premiere of Ramon Carnicer’s Il dissoluto punito, conducted by Alberto Zedda. She also enjoyed great success as a leading character in Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan with the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, with whom she also recently opened their concert season performing Mozart’s Davide Penitente K 469 conducted by Antonello Manacorda. The French critics defined her as a “great, exciting and authentic Gilda” in Rigoletto at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, and she was Adina in The Elixir of Love that closed the 2006 recitals at the Staatsoper of Berlin. She started 2007 with the “Strauss Gran Gala” and The Swallow in a concert version at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Antonio Pappano. Later in the year she was praised by both critics and audience for her Sophie in a new production of Strauss’ Rosenkavalier and for Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce.

Year 2008 included a new production of W. Braunfels’s Die Vögel at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Rigoletto at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Medea (Glauce) in a celebration of Maria Callas’s last opera at the Greek amphitheatre Epidaurus (Athens) for the 30^th anniversary of the Divine’s death, a new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann for the festivals of Santander, Peralada and Sant Sebastien in Spain, and Don Pasquale at the Teatro di Santa Cruz in Tenerife.

Yea 2009 included the debut in Zaide at Teatro Colon in La Coruna, the debut in Teatro San Carlo Naples as Norina in Don Pasquale, the debut in Tancredi (Amenaide) in Teatro Regio Turin and a come back in Maggio Fiorentino in Florence as Gilda in Rigoletto.

She started 2010 with a new role debut as Marguerite in Faust in Teatro Bellini Catania. Next engagement will be in Teatro Massimo Palermo as Musetta (Boheme), Teatro Verdi Trieste as Adina (Elisir D'Amore), Teatro San Carlo Naples as Megacle (Olimpiade) and the return in Teatro Regio Turin as Gilda (Rigoletto).

Febraury 2010