Elisa Verzier

Born in Trieste, she started studying piano in her hometown, then she graduated in lyric singing at the Conservatory of Trieste. Subsequently, she joined courses and masterclasses held by Fiorenza Cedolins and Patrizia Ciofi, with whom she is still studying.

In 2016 she made her debut at Teatro Verdi in Trieste as Serpina in Paisiello’s La serva padrona. Then she was the title-role in Piccinni’s La Cecchina in Treviso, Annina in Verdi’s La traviata and Berta in Rossini’s Barber of Seville in Trieste.

Winner of the “Vicenza in Lirica” prize at the Ottavio Ziino competition in 2021 in Rome, the Concorso Lirico Bellini at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, and the 73rd edition of AsLiCo for the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for the OperaLombardia tournée.

In 2022 she debuted in Trieste as Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (then reprised in Pisa) and at Teatro Regio in Torino as Countess in Salieri’s La scuola de’ gelosi.

She joined the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble for the Season 2022/2023, where she played the roles of Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen, Berta in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Garsenda in Zandonà’s Francesca da Rimini, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème.

In concert, she sung Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozart’s Krönungsmesse, several masterpieces by Pergolesi, Schubert, Bach, Handel’s Messiah, and Rutter’s Mass of the Children.

Recently she played the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in Catania and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for the OperaLombardia tournée. At the end of 2023 she debuted in Teatro alla Scala in Milan for the opening night of the Season 2023/2024 in Verdi’s Don Carlo as Tebaldo.

After this, she debuted in Ferrara and Pisa as Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème. She worked with famous conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Michelangelo Mazza, Ivan Repusic, and Beatrice Venezi and with important opera directors such as Lluis Pasqual, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Chiara Muti, and Mario Martone.

Then she sang as Violetta Valéry in La Traviata in Glyndebourne.