Rosa Feola

Rosa Feola (born 21 May 1986) is an Italian operatic soprano.

Feola was born and grew up in San Nicola la Strada, Caserta (Italy), in a music-loving family. Having studied with Mara Naddei, in 2008 she graduated in singing with a first-class honors degree from Salerno's Conservatorio Giuseppe Martucci . She continued her studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's Opera Studio attending master classes by Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi, and Cesare Scarton.

Feola made her operatic debut in the role of Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims) under Kent Nagano at the Santa Cecilia Academy at age 23. She came to international attention winning Second Prize, the Zarzuela Prize and the Rolex Audience Prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia 2010.

In the following year, she made her role debuts / house debuts as Adina (L'elisir d'amore) at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at Teatro La Fenice, and Micaëla (Carmen) at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Most significant was singing the role of Inez in the modern premiere of Mercadante's I due Figaro under Riccardo Muti with whom she has maintained a longtime collaboration since then. The performances at Ravenna Festival were recorded live and later released on the Ducale label.

In 2012, she made her US debut with Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Millennium Park singing the soprano part of Carmina Burana under Muti, and later made her Carnegie Hall debut in its season-opening concert with CSO and Muti with the same program. In the same year, at Ravenna Festival, in a production directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Feola made her role debut of Gilda (Rigoletto), a signature role of hers, which has served as the vehicle for her house debuts at Opernhaus Zürich (2013), Bayerische Staatsoper (2015), Lyric Opera of Chicago (2017, her US stage opera debut), and the Metropolitan Opera (2019).