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Alda Caiello is one of the leading performers in the contemporary European scene, known for her versatile, imaginative and expressive abilities. Graduated in piano and singing at the Conservatory of Perugia, she has sung under the baton of important  conductors such as Berio, Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Arturo Tamayo, Gianandrea Noseda, Pierre-André Valade, Jonathan Webb, Peter Keuschnig, Massimo de Bernart, Donato Renzetti, Emilio Pomarico, Pascal Rophé, Waine Marshall, Stephen Ausbury, James Weeks, Peter Rundel, Lucas Vis, Christopher Franklin, Sandro Gorli, Renato Rivolta, Marcello Panni, Fabio Maestri, Marco Angius. She has collaborated with directors such as Daniele Abbado, Yoshi Oida, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Davide Livermore, Michael Scheidl, Cristina Muti, Stefano Poda, Ignacio García, Giorgio Pressburger, and Cecilia Ligorio.

She has been invited by major European musical institutions, including Teatro alla Scala in Milano, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisboa, Oji Hall in Tokyo, National Auditorium in Madrid, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Wien, Salzburg Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Contemporary Music Festival in Barcelona, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Mozart Festival de La Coruña, Wien Modern Festival, Manca Festival, National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Roma, Teatro dell’Opera in Roma, Bologna Festival, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Münich Biennale, MiTo Milano and Torino Festival, Alicante Festival, Ravenna Festival, and Hamburg Symphoniker Musikfest.

Her repertoire includes scores by Monteverdi, Bach, Purcell, Scarlatti, Mozart, Boccherini, Pergolesi, Gluck, Rossini, Respighi, Mahler, Schönberg and many 20th century and contemporary works.

Alda Caiello sang Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs in Milano conducted by Berio himself, in Rotterdam conducted by Valerij Gergiev and at Wien’s Musikverein with the Kontrapunkte Ensemble conducted by Peter Keuschnig.

She sang the main role in Berio’s Passaggio at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova. The Nieuw Ensemble invited her to sing compositions by Berio in Utrecht and Maastricht; she was one of the singers of Berio’s Folk Songs and Kurt Weill’s Songs at Teatro dell’Opera in Roma on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Luciano Berio’s death.

At Opéra Bastille in Paris she performed works by Billone and Sciarrino; in Roma, for the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, she performed Trame d’ombre by Giacomo Manzoni; in Bolzano , Teatro Comunale, she performed the world première of the opera Alex Brüchke Langer: A Composed Portrait by Giovanni Verrando. She has collaborated with Settembre Musica Festival and the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, with  Improvisation I and Improvisation II by Boulez (conductor Marcello Panni) and works by Castiglioni and Bosco (conductor Arturo Tamayo). For the Holland Festival, Alda Caiello sang in Gesualdo, considered as a murderer by Luca Francesconi, in collaboration with the Hilliard Ensemble directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. In the same year, she was principal artist at the Münchener Biennale and Wien Modern Festival, where she performed the world première of Edoardo Cattaneo’s La Philosophie dans le Labyrinth.

She sang the world première of Medea at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and La Pietra di Diaspro at the Teatro dell’Opera in Roma, operas by Adriano Guarnieri; at Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, she starred in  Signor Goldoni, directed by Davide Livermore, Freud, Freud, I love you as well as L’Italia del destino at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Firenze, operas by Luca Mosca.

For  Venice La Biennale she sang the world première of Manzoni’s La Legge, in the presence of the composer. The Wiener Musikverein invited her for several edition of the Wien Modern festival, where she performed Kosmoi by Pierluigi Billone with the Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien and the first Austrian performance of Recital for Cathy by Luciano Berio with the Ensemble Kontrapunkte. She has performed Poulenc’s Voix Humaine in Palermo, Leggenda by Alessandro Solbiati in Torino Teatro Regio, under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, with whom she also performed Folk songs by Berio.

Other important perfomances: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Roma conductor Jonathan Webb; Teatro Grande in Brescia, Il Sogno di una cosa by Mauro Montalbetti; Poulenc’s La voix humaine for Ravenna Festival; at the Wiener Musikverein with Eine Florentisiche Tragoedie by Zemlinsky and works by Webern, Berg, Schönberg; Teatro Comunale in Bologna Il suono giallo by Solbiati; in Firenze Dialoghi della lontananza by Portera and the Italian première of Gubaidulina’s Galgenlieder; Lo specchio magico by Fabio Vacchi at Maggio Fiorentino; in Basel Sacher Stiftung for a concert dedicated to Cathy Berberian; Oltre la porta by Carlo Boccadoro; Passion selon Sade by Bussotti in Roma Parco della Musica, in the presence of the composer; in Parma she sang Nono’s Prometeo with Orchestra Toscanini ; in Montecarlo Festival Printemps Sequenza by Berio.

Recently she was the mother in La signorina Else by Federico Gardella at the Cantiere Internazionale in Montepulciano. She has received many awards for the recording of Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg with Prazak Quartet (Praga Digital).

Her commitment also extends to didactic projects based on collaboration between composers and young performers, contributing to the development of emerging talents, in collaboration with the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano and the Ravenna Festival. Full professor at the Conservatory of Cesena, she is a guest lecturer at the Accademia del Divertimento Ensemble and the International Academy ‘Incontri col Maestro’ in Imola.

DISCOGRAPHY 

Guarnieri: Orfeo cantando…tolse/Omaggio a Mina ( ORT, Pietro Borgonovo ) ed. BMG Ricordi

Maderna: Don Perlimplin ( Divertimento Ensemble, Sandro Gorli ) ed. Stradivarius

Maderna: Liriche su Verlaine ( Divertimento Ensemble, Maria Grazia Bellocchio ) ed. Stradivarius

Maderna: Kranichstein Kammerkantate ( Divertimento Ensemble, Sandro Gorli ) ed. Stradivarius

Sciarrino: La navigazione notturna ( ExNovo Ensemble, Alvise Vidolin) ed. Stradivarius

Nono: Prometeo,tragedia dell’ascolto (Ensemble Prometeo,Filarmonica Toscanini, Marco Angius) ed. Stradivarius

Bertelli : Lorem Ipsum ( Divertimento Ensemble, Sandro Gorli ) ed. Stradivarius

Pizzetti, Casella, Ghedini ( 3 CD – Antonio Ballista ) ed. Bottega Diacantica

Berio: Folk Songs ( Orchestra da Cámara Reina Sofia, Luciano Berio) ed. Amadeus

Dallapiccola: Songs ( Filippo Farinelli ) ed. Brillant Classics

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire ( Prazak Quartett ) ed. Praga Digital

Bussotti: The Rara Requiem ( Orchestra Teatro La Fenice, Arturo Tamayo ) ed. Col Legno

Sciarrino: Histoires d’autres Histoires ( Quartetto Prometeo ) ed. Zig-Zag Territoires 

Sáry László: Niagara ( Manuel Zurria ) ed. Bmc Records

Vacchi: Cantando dietro i paraventi ( Orchestra Universitaria di Milano, Marcello Crudele ) ed. Cam

Gorecki: Sinfonia n.3 ( Orchestra Nova Amadeus, Flavio Emilio Scogna ) ed. La Feltrinelli

Gaslini: Sinfonico 3 ( Giorgio Gaslini ) ed. Velut Luna

De Pablo: Trios ( Trío Arbós ) ed. Verso

De Pablo: Komponistenpolyphonie ( Plural Ensemble, Fabien Panisiello ) ed. Bremen- Cervantes

DVD 

Guarnieri: Medea ( Orchestra Teatro La Fenice, Pietro Borgonovo) ed. EMA Vinci Records

Mosca: Signor Goldoni ( Orchestra Teatro La Fenice, Andrea Molino ) ed. Dynamic

Solbiati: Leggenda ( orchestra Teatro Regio di Torino, Noseda ) ed. EMA Vinci Records

Solbiati: Il suono giallo ( orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Angius ) ed. EMA Vinci Records