Patrizia Iervolino

Mezzosoprano - Contralto
Musicologist

2009/2013: She has graduated on 2013 July in “Musica Vocale da Camera” at the Conservatorio di Musica «S. Cecilia» in Rome, under the direction of the M° T. Scandaletti.

2009/2012: In 2012 she received her Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Rome La Sapienza, writing her thesis about the singing technique at the origin of the opera in the XVII century in Italy, entitled Dalla téchne alla tecnica. La vocalità nella prima età moderna, under the direction of Prof. Franco Piperno. 
She took regular courses of Prof. Philip Gossett at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

2005/2009: In 2009 she graduated from the University of Salerno with a Bachelor in Archaeology.

2003/2008: In 2008 she graduated from the ‘Conservatorio di Musica «G. Martucci» of Salerno (Italy).

Work Experiences
May 2013: Her theatrical debut has been in Rome, on May 2013, in Teatro Valle, as Maddalena in Rigoletto of G. Verdi.

2013/2014: She has performed as a soloist singer in various concerts.

2008: In 2008 she began working in Salerno as a mezzo-soprano in the Chorus at the urban Theatre ‘G. Verdi’, under the direction of M° Luigi Petrozziello.
She made her debut as a chorister in the lyric opera “La Traviata” of G. Verdi, under the direction of M° D. Oren and staged by M° F. Zeffirelli.

2008/2010: she worked in the same Chorus in others productions as
“La Vedova Allegra” of F. Lehar, conducted by M° D. Oren and staged by M° V. Salemme.

“Don Giovanni” of W.A. Mozart, under the direction of M° F. Chaslin and staged by M° G. del Monaco.

“Nabucco” of G. Verdi, conducted by M° D. Oren and staged by M° Gigi Proietti.

“Aida” of G. Verdi, under the direction of M° D. Oren and staged by M° F. Zeffirelli.

“Un ballo in maschera” of G. Verdi, under the direction of M° A. Pirolli and staged by M° P.P. Pacini.

Tribute Concert for M° A. Trovajoli at the “Politeama” Theatre in Catanzaro (Italy), conducted by M° F. Petracchi, solo piano player M° A. Trovajoli.

Masterclass Partecipations

May 2013: Masterclass “Il belcanto da Rossini a Verdi” under the direction of the Prof. Rockwell Blake, a specialist of the Belcanto repertoire.

Febr. 2013: Masterclass of the Prof. Barbara Pfeffer [Folkwang Universität der Künste (Essen, Germany)].

Dic. 2011: Masterclass of the Prof. Joanna Kozłowska of the Akademia Muzyczna im. I J.Paderewskiego of Poznan. 2013, in Rome.

March 2011: Masterclass “La musica vocale spagnola del ‘900” under the direction of the Prof. Rosa Maria De Alba and the Prof. Jesus Campos [Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo” (Siviglia, Spain)].

Professional Competencies
Her chamber repertory focuses now on these composers: Caccini, Händel,
Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Franz, Bellini, Gounod, Debussy, Tosti, Strauss, Poulenc, Grieg, Mahler, Schönberg, de Falla, Janácek, Guastavino, etc.
The best operistic roles for her coloratura are: Cherubino (from ‘Le nozze di
Figaro’, W.A. Mozart), Annio, Sesto (from ‘La clemenza di Tito’, W.A. Mozart),
Romeo (from ‘I Capuleti e i Montecchi’, V. Bellini), Smeton (from ‘Anna Bolena’, G. Donizetti).