Eleonora Buratto has emerged onto the international opera stage as “the most precious and complete soprano that the Italian school has produced in recent years” (Il Foglio, 2022).
Her interpretations are seen as a point of reference in a repertoire that ranges from Belcanto to Puccini. Her career progression has been gradual but unstoppable, from her start as Creusa in Demofoonte conducted by Riccardo Muti, to her leading roles in recent years in the most prestigious theatres worldwide.
Over the past two seasons she has starred in the 2024 New Year’s Concert broadcast worldwide from La Fenice, followed by Amelia in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro alla Scala, Tosca (debut) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Arena di Verona’s 2024 season-opening gala concert and Puccini secondo Muti in Lucca (both concerts were broadcast internationally), the Belcanto Concert at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Madama Butterfly at the Opéra Bastille, a concert performance of Tosca which opened the season at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (new music director Daniel Harding’s inaugural concerts, also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon) and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra for the season opening of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. Her 2025 began as Mimì at the Metropolitan Opera House and continued with the Verdi Requiem with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Daniele Gatti, a staged production of Madama Butterfly at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival followed by a concert performance of the same opera at the Philharmonie Berlin under Kirill Petrenko, Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux at the Palau de les Arts, completing the “Tudor Queens” trilogy she debuted at the Valencia opera house, Tosca at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and the Verdi Requiem at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. She closes the year singing as Alice in Falstaff for the season opening at the Semperoper Dresden under Daniele Gatti, followed by Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, a concert at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls as part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations and Madama Butterfly at the Wiener Staatsoper. Upcoming engagements for the next season include and Idomeneo again in Vienna and Micaëla in Carmen at the Bayerische Staatsoper, her debut as Leonora in Il trovatore at the Staatsoper Hamburg and two concert performances of Simon Boccanegra in Munich and Budapest. In spring 2026, she will take part in a major European tour of the Verdi Requiem (alongside Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim and Michele Pertusi) conducted by Daniele Gatti with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. The tour will visit major capitals and leading concert halls across Europe, including the Philharmonie de Paris, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Vienna’s Musikverein and Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música.
Over the course of her career — which has taken her to many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera to La Scala, from the Teatro Real to the Wiener Staatsoper, from the Opera di Roma to the Bayerische Staatsoper — several standout milestones emerge. Chief among them is her long-standing collaboration with Maestro Riccardo Muti, with whom she has performed roles such as Susanna in Mercadante’s I Due Figaro, Norina in Don Pasquale, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Alice in Falstaff, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Aida, as well as appearing with him in numerous concerts and gala performances.Her close artistic connection with Mozart’s Da Ponte operas, along with her acclaimed portrayal of Elettra in Idomeneo, re di Creta, has established her as one of today’s most sought-after Mozart interpreters. A major turning point came in 2015 when she appeared as Corinna in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Dutch National Opera and as Micaela in Carmen under the baton of Zubin Mehta in the season-opening production at the Teatro San Carlo. Since then, her repertoire has continued to expand, adding roles such as Liù, Mimì, Donna Anna, Luisa Miller, Elvira in Ernani, Desdemona in both Verdi’s and Rossini’s Otello, Anaï in Moïse et Pharaon, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo, and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda.
Fall 2025
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