Spanish mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé has established a solid reputation among audiences and in the world’s leading opera houses. Her repertoire spans from the Baroque to the 21st century, though she is especially recognized as one of today’s foremost interpreters of Rossini and bel canto.
Throughout her career, she has performed more than 30 operatic roles. Some of her most notable roles include: Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Cenerentola (La Cenerentola), Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri), Lucilla (La scala di seta), Ernestina (L’equivoco stravagante), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Malcom (La donna del lago), Arsace (Semiramide and Aureliano in Palmira), Zelmira (Zelmira), Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Isoletta (La Straniera), Maffio Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Princess Eboli (Don Carlo), Fenena (Nabucco), and characters in Handel’s works such as Xerxes, Rinaldo, Ariodante, Polinesso (Ariodante), and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare). She has also performed roles like Charlotte (Werther), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Princess Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Laura Adorno (La Gioconda), Alcina (Ruggiero), Lisinga (Le Cinesi), and Néris (Médée).
She has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Maurizio Benini, Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Frizza, Fabio Biondi, Marc Minkowski, Bruno Campanella, and Christophe Rousset, among others. Additionally, she has worked under the stage direction of prominent figures such as David McVicar, Valentina Carrasco, Damiano Michieletto, and Christof Loy.