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Lavinia Bini

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In 2009 Lavinia graduated with distinction in Singing from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence under the the tutelage of Benedetta Pecchioli. She also has a degree in Legal Sciences from the University of Pisa. In 2009 she made her debut as Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at the Eurofestival in Rome conducted by Paolo Ponziano Ciardi, and played Berta in Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Teatro dell'Aquila in Fermo conducted by Giampaolo Maria Bisanti and directed by Damiano Michieletto. Also in 2009 she studied at the Scuola dell’Opera Italiana at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna where she participated in numerous masterclasses with great professionals from the international opera scene, including: Bruno Bartoletti, Raul Gimenez, Dolora Zajick, Tiziana Fabbricini, Antonello Allemandi, Sonia Ganassi, Roberto De Candia and others. 

She was Serpina in La serva padrona and Livietta in Livietta e Tracollo by Pergolesi at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and at the Valle d'Itria Festival in Martina Franca where she returned in the summer of 2019 with a diptych of unpublished interludes: l’Ammalato Immaginario by Leonardo Vinci and la Vedova Ingegnosa by Giuseppe Sellitti. She interpreted Zerbine in the first Italian representation of Pergolesi's Servante Maitresse at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi directed by Juliette Deschamps and conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti. 

In 2011 she made her debut at the Maggio Musicale in Florence singing Elena in Nino Rota's Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze directed by Andrea Cigni and conducted by Sergio Alapont, and later revived Serpina in Pergolesi's Serva Padrona at the Goldoni Theatre in Florence.

In 2012 she sang Donna/Sirena in Händel's Rinaldo conducted by Ottavio Dantone and with staging by Pierluigi Pizzi in Ravenna, Reggio Emilia and Ferrara. Also in 2012 she worked at the Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires singing in I due Figaro by Saverio Mercadante conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by Emilio Sagi. She was Elvira in Gioacchino Rossini's Italiana in Algeri at the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari conducted by Daniele Rustioni and with the historic staging of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Lauretta in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Nuovo Teatro dell’Opera in Florence.

In January 2013 she won the role of Adina in Donizetti's Elisir d'Amore in the 64th edition of the As.Li.Co competition in Como; a competition that led her to interpret the role in Brescia, Cremona, Como, Pavia and Trento directed by Arnoud Bernard and conducted by Andrea Battistoni.

She was Carolina in Il Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna conducted by Julian Kovatchev and directed by Italo Nunziata, and Valencienne in The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona with Gino Landi, conducted by Roberto Gianola.

She interpreted Lisette in Puccini's La Rondine in the Pisa, Modena, Ravenna and Lucca under the direction of Massimiliano Stefanelli, and in February 2015 she debuted the role of Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula at the LandesTheater in Salzburg conducted by Lorenzo Coladonato . Also in 2015 she won the second prize and the audience prize in the prestigious Tebaldi International Competition in San Marino for the Baroque category. Subsequently, in the same year, she debuted Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona conducted by Gabriele Bonolis and directed by Nicola Berloffa:  a role she repeated at the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari in 2016 (directed by Miller, conducted by Mazza), at the Opéra Royal De Wallonie in Liège (directed by Pralafera, conducted by Arrivabeni) and more recently at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova (directed by Fornari, conducted by Battistoni).

As far as Mozart's repertoire is concerned, she has performed numerous roles in very important theatres: Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Ilia in Idomeneo at the LandesTheater in Salzburg conducted by Adrian Kelly and Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, where she received excellent reviews.

She also sang Papagena in The Magic Flute at the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari under the baton of Roland Boer and directed by Daniele Abbado, Despina in Così Fan tutte in Novara, Piacenza and Ravenna. She was Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Daniele Callegari, in 2018 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna conducted by Michele Mariotti and directed by Sivadier  and in 2020 at the Sferisterio in Macerata conducted by Lanzillotta and directed by Davide Livermore. 

She performed the role of Tebaldo in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Teatro Regio in Parma conducted by Daniel Oren and directed by Cesare Lievi, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari with Gerard Korsten and directed by Mariani, and Gilda in Rigoletto at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège conducted by Bisanti and staged by Pralafera.

Lavinia is highly sought-after interpreter of contemporary repertoire; she was Rosetta in the first European performance and in the Rai television broadcast of Marco Tutino's La Ciociara, alongside Anna Caterina Antonacci, directed by Francesca Zambello at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari. Additionally, she performed the role of Agneska at the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's opera 7 Minuti, conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy. In November 2019 she recorded the unpublished work by Flury Il Casanova and L'Albertolli for Radio Svizzera Italiana with Diego Fasolis, and in August 2020 she made her debut at the Arena di Verona with Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi performing alongside Leo Nucci, conducted by Francesco Ivan Ciampa. In May 2021 she was Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari directed by Antonio Albanese, and made her debut in September of the same year at the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan in a new production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia in the role of Berta, conducted by Riccardo Chailly and directed by Leo Muscato.

In Lavinia’s repertoire, titles from the 1900s stand out, such as the Voix Humaine by Francis Poulenc which she performed at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta and directed by Federica Zagatti Wolferrari, and Il Segreto di Susanna by Ermanno Wolferrari, again at the Teatro Filarmonico, conducted by Gianna Fratta.

She was the protagonist in a concert dedicated to Bruno Cagli at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta a world premiere of Marco Betta and Nella and the Suora Cercatrice in the new production of Il Trittico by Giacomo Puccini at the Salzburger Festspiele conducted by Franz Welser_Most and directed by Christof Loy in the summer of 2022. 

In the same summer she played Micaela in Bizet's Carmen conducted by Marco Armilliato and directed by Franco Zeffirelli at the Arena di Verona. She recently made her debut as Bubikopf in Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis for the season opening at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo conducted by Omer Wellber, and the role of Mimì in Puccini's La Boheme at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste conducted by Christopher Franklin.

Her forthcoming engagements include a Così Fan tutte at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman, La  Boheme in Telaviv, L’elisir d'amore in Bologna and Don Pasquale in Japan at the Tokyo New National Theatre.

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Soprano: Lavinia BiniDirettore: Lahav ShaniOrchestra: Israel PhilharmonicTel Aviv luglio 2023

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