Italian mezzo soprano Benedetta Orsi has made quite a name for herself in the St. Louis area. Awarded the Paul Harris Fellow as one of the most influential Italian excellences to spread the Italian culture and art abroad, Benedetta has recently been one of the Featured Artists by the Missouri Arts Council.
As a recording artist, her latest album, INcanto, recorded for the Swiss Label BAM International at Webster University in collaboration with the Arianna String Quartet and pianist Alla Voskoboynikova, has been awarded the Double Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards as Best Classical Album and Best Female Artist.
Benedetta is one of only a few contemporary mezzo sopranos to have performed all three of Donizetti’s Tudor Operas: Jane Seymour in Anna Bolena, Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda and Sara in Roberto Devereux with Royal Opera Theater in Manchester, UK. Recent performances also include Adalgisa in Norma with Winter Opera St. Louis, the title role of Carmen with Winter Opera St. Louis, Amore Opera in New York, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera with the Miami Lyric Opera and Maddalena in Rigoletto with Amore Opera.
Her performance credits include roles in Verdi Rigoletto, Falstaff, Trovatore, Bellini Norma and La Sonnambula, Rossini L’Italiana in Algeri and Il Turco in Italia and Massenet Werther.
Along with concert appearances at Carnegie Hall and throughout Italy, Austria, England, France, United States, Brazil and Spain, Benedetta is very involved in the St. Louis musical scene, collaborating with the Sheldon, the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, the World Chess Hall of Fame, Gateway Festival Orchestra, Washington University Symphony Orchestra, and more.
Very active and committed to represent and support women in music, Benedetta is the co-founder of In Her Sound, Inc., and the President of the St. Louis Women’s Chorale.
Benedetta lives in St. Louis with her husband conductor Darwin Aquino. To learn more about Benedetta, her recordings and appearances, you are invited to visit her website at www.benedettaorsi.com