Victoria
Pitts
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BIOGRAPHY
The Brazilian mezzo-soprano began her musical training at the Conservatorio Carlos Gomes in 2008 and went to Italy on scholarship in 2011, where she won an award at the International Vocal Competition "Sacred Music" in Rome. In 2019 she debuted in Belém as Purcell's Dido and made her European debut at the Teatro Sociale di Rovigo in Paolo Furlani's The Water Babies. From 2015 to 2017 she was a graduate of the Young Artists Program at the Academy of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. At the Rossini Festival in Wildbad she appeared as Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri), in Manuel García's Le cinesi, as Albino in Peter Josef von Lindpaintner's Il Vespro siciliano and as Publia in Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira. In 2018 Victória Pitts made her debut at the Opéra de Lyon as La vecchietta / La Duchessa in Respighi's La bella dormente. The same year she was accepted into the Accademia di Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti in Martina Franca, where she performed Rossini's cantata Giovanna D'Arco and as Mago in Handel's Rinaldo at the Festival della Valle d'Itria. This was followed in 2019 by debuts as Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore at Sofia Opera, as Fidalma in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto at the Festival della Valle d'Itria and as Amneris (Aida) at the Ravenna Festival, and in 2020 as Korableva and Vera in Alfano's Risurrezione at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In the summer of 2020 Victória Pitts was again a guest at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in The Citizen as a Nobleman and Ariadne auf Naxos.
Recent engagements include productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola in Modena and Reggio Emilia, La Traviata at the Arena di Verona, Il trovatore in Pisa, the title role Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Cagliari and the roles Frugola, Zia Principessa and Zita in Il Trittico at Oper Frankfurt in the 2021/22 season.
Future productions 2023/24 include the role debut as the Spring Fairy (Snegurochka) at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl and performances Il trovatore in Livorno, Lucca and Savona.