Gloria Banditelli, mezzo-soprano
The Italian mezzo-soprano Gloria Banditelli was born in Assisi and studied singing at the Conservatory of Perugia. She has sung in some of the most important Italian and European theatres, including La Scala, La Fenice, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Rome Teatro dell'Opera, San Carlo in Naples, the Regio in Turin, Massimo in Palermo, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Vienna State Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Theatre des Champs Elysées and the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, collaborating with conductors of the greatest distinction. She has made a number of important recordings, and enjoys a career in the concert-hall as well as in the theatre, in the latter appearing in repertoire that ranges from Monteverdi to Rossini and Verdi.
