Vannina Santoni, Orchestre National de Lille & Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Biographie Vannina Santoni, Orchestre National de Lille & Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Vannina Santoni
born in Paris on 5 May 1986, is a fusion of ice and fire, with a dual Corsican and Russian heritage from which springs her intense, passionate love of nature, animals and horses, her sense of rapport with the earth, and her deep and intimate bond with the elements.
After training at the Maîtrise de Radio France and the Paris Conservatoire, she very soon began a career as a soprano soloist that has garnered her more than thirty main roles so far, among them Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Mimi (La Bohème), Liù (Turandot), Suor Angelica and Lauretta (Il Trittico), Violetta (La Traviata), Nanetta (Falstaff), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), the title roles in Manon and Grisélidis (Manon, Grisélidis), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Agnès (La Nonne sanglante), Micaëla (Carmen), Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles); Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Héro (Béatrice et Bénédict), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride), La Princesse Saamcheddine (Mârouf, savetier du Caire), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), and Adele (Die Fledermaus).
She has appeared at the Opéra de Paris, Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, Opéra Comique, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and the National Opera of Bordeaux, as well as at la Scala Milan, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Hong Kong Cultural Center, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Zurich Opera, the Opéra de Lausanne, the Teatru Manoel Malta, the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André, and in Lille, Montpellier and Tours.
With her total commitment to theatre and to music, Vannina Santoni cannot imagine being an opera singer without deeply immersing herself in her roles; while also sensing the importance of honouring the music just as much as the characters she embodies. An ardent ‘people person’ at the core of her being, Vannina Santoni is on a constant quest to identify the quintessence of her roles.
