Biography
Since her European debut with in 1997, soprano Paula Delligatti has been a regular guest of leading opera houses and symphonies throughout Europe and the United States. She has appeared with the Opera National de Paris-Bastille, Teatro Comunale Firenze, Deutsche Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper (Berlin), Pittsburgh Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Pacific as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London) and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Amalia in I Masnadieri and the title role in Bellini’s Norma in Sicily.
In addition, she has appeared at the Opera National de Paris-Bastille and Teatro Comunale Firenze as Ghita in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, Opera Pacific as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Atlanta Opera as Magda in La Rondine, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Nanetta in Falstaff, Madison Opera and Seoul Metropolitan Opera as Leonora in Il Trovatore, Mimi in La Boheme, and Alice Ford in Falstaff and the Shanghai Opera as Violetta in La Traviata, and in Boston as Odabella in Attila.
Last season, Ms. Delligatti returned to London to sing the title role in Tosca at the Royal Albert Hall and sang Mariella in Mascagni’s Il Piccolo Marat with Teatro Gratticielo at Alice Tully Hall, both to critical and popular acclaim.
Ms. Delligatti has also appeared with leading symphony orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony (Charles Dutoit), Israel Philharmonic (Yoel Levi), Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Robert Spano) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra (Bernard Haitink), and Cleveland Orchestra for the Verdi Requiem, Boston Symphony (Seiji Ozawa) for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and concert performances of Madama Butterfly (Ozawa), Cincinnati May Festival (James Conlon) for Act 3 of Turandot, Avery Fisher Hall as Ghita in Der Zwerg. She has also performed Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Guangzhou Symphony in China.
A native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Ms. Delligatti made her professional debut as Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte with Connecticut Opera. She returnedin subsequent seasons as Cio-Cio-San and Donna Anna. She was also a regular guest with Sarasota Opera, appearing as Cio-Cio-San with Sarasota Opera, three heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and all three heroines in Il Trittico (Giorgetta, Suor, and Lauretta). She has also performed Cio-Cio-San with the Knoxville Opera, The Art and Music Organization of Manila, the Philippines, and Pamiro Opera Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin.