Grazia Doronzio, from Stigliano, Italy, joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program for the 2007–2008 season. This season Ms. Doronzio makes her Metropolitan Opera debut as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto. She will also be heard performing songs of Luigi Dallapiccola on the MET Chamber Ensemble series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. Other engagements include travels to Sassari, Italy to sing Mimi in La Bohème. This past summer, Ms. Doronzio received First Prize at the Elardo International Opera Competition. She has also received top prizes at the 2008 Viñas Competition, the Opera de Sabadell, the Iris Adami Corradetti International Competition of Padova, the Ottavio Ziino International Competition in Rome, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale A. Belli Competition in Spoleto, and the Spiros Argiris Competition of Sarzana. Ms. Doronzio is also a 2009 winner of the Sullivan Award. Ms. Doronzio was chosen by Alberto Zedda to participate in the concert for the “212th Birthday of Rossini” at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. She was also invited to participate in the concert for the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at Wolfsburg Castle in Germany. As a recitalist, Ms. Doronzio won First Prize at the 22nd Concorso Internazionale di Musica Vocale da Camera in Conegliano. Ms. Doronzio made her debut as Mimi in La Bohème at the Spoleto Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, where she also performed the title role in Cimarosa’s Cleopatra. Other engagements include Filippo Marchetti’s Gustavo Wasa in Camerino, Paisiello’s Nina, o sia la pazza per amore in Rome, Mozart’s Requiem in Bergamo with the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, and a recital at the Opéra de Rouen. Ms. Doronzio graduated from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Rossini in Pesaro, where she was awarded a scholarship from the Rossini Foundation. She also studied with Renata Scotto at the Opera Studio dell’Accademia dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome.
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