Marina Comparato

Born in Perugia, Marina Comparato earned a degree in Political Science at the University in Florence and parallelly a degree in opera singing at Conservatorio Cherubini in Firenze.
Marina’s season 2023/24 highlights are Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) in Teatro San Carlio in Napoli, Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Teatro La Fenice and La Gran Vestale (La Vestale) in Thessaloniki.
During her career she performed in the major international opera houses with the Mozart’s and Rossini’s operas such as: Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, La Clemenza di Tito, La finta Semplice, Lucio Silla, Barbier of Seville, Cenerentola, Le Comte Ory, Zelmira.  At the same time, she had important awards as interpret in baroque roles as those of Haendel, Vivaldi and Monteverdi. In subsequent years she approached late romantic and early ‘900 roles such as Oberon, L’enfant et les Sortilèges, L’heure espagnole, Nabucco, Falstaff. Recently she debuted the title role of CARMEN at Teatro La Fenice Venezia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Suntory Hall Tokio and Charlotte/WERTHER at the Teatro Massimo Palermo.
Also very active in the concert field, Marina has performed in various concert halls including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Center in London, the NHK Concert Hall in Tokyo, the Theâtre des Champs Elysée’s and the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Theater and der Wien.
Marina has collaborated with important conductors including Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Andrew Davis, Ottavio Dantone, Renè Jacobs, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Alessandro De Marchi, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Zubin Mehta, Marc Minkowski, Kent Nagano, Christophe Rousset, Jeffrey Tate.