Miriam Albano

MIRIAM ALBANO - mezzosoprano Miriam Albano was born in 1991 in Venice. In her early youth, Miriam began studying violin at the Conservatory of Venice. In 2011, she graduated from that institute in the field of Voice (Belcanto) with the highest honours and cum laude, under the guidance of Stella Silva. Shortly afterwards, she sang for the “Festival Galuppi” at the Apollinee Rooms of Teatro La Fenice. In the same year she performed with La Fenice’s Orchestra as a soloist. Later on, she collaborated with the ensemble “Il Gene Barocco” in Switzerland for the New Year Music Festival of Gstaad, singing songs by Monteverdi, Caldara and Vivaldi. In 2012 she portrayed the role of Amor in C.W.Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” at the Teatro Malibran. At la Fenice, she performed for the Festival Monteverdi Vivaldi. In 2013 she gave her first Lieder Recital for the Artistic Circle of Ducal Palace’s prisons, in Venice. She made her debut as Cherubino in “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna. She sang for the Beethoven Center in Vienna. In 2014 she won the second prize in the international singing competition “Ferruccio Tagliavini”, and was a finalist in the International Osaka Competition 2014. She sang Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in the Scuola Grande of San Marco in Venice with the Vivaldi Orchestra. In Vienna’s Radio Kultur Haus she presented, under the musical direction of Leopold Hager, Les nuits d ́ete Op.7 by Hector Berlioz. Miriam Albano received the prize of the Centre de Music baroque de Versailles in the 5th International Baroque Singing Competition Pietro Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck. Since 2012, she has been perfecting her craft under the guidance of Prof. Claudia Visca at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Recently in 2015 she won the most important international vocal competition in Germany - Neue Stimmen. Since 2016 she is the youngest soloist of the Staatsoper Wien.