Nuccia Focile

Soprano

Nuccia Focile was born in Militello, Sicily and studied with Elio Battaglia at the Turin Conservatory.

Her roles have included Nannetta in Falstaff (also in Tokyo and Paris) and Violetta in Traviata for Welsh National Opera. For Las Scala, Milan roles include Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Giulietta in I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Servilia in La Clemenza Di Tito, Nedda in Pagliacci, Drusilla in L’incoronazuine di Poppea, Norina in Don Pasquale, Ascanio in Lo Frate ‘nnammorato and Ilia in Idomeneo. For Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires Musetta in La Boheme; Norina in Don Pasquale for Dublin Grand Opera; Oscar, Norina and Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte for Philadelphia Opera; Mimi in La Boheme for Hamburg Staatsoper and in Verone, Florence, Turin, Teatro Massimo Palermo, and Metropolitan Opera, New York; Giulia in La Scala Di Seta for the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro; Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro for the Houston Grand Opera, Bari Petruzzelli, Teatro Bellini Catania; Oscar, Ilia and Mimi for Opera de la Bastille, Paris; Tatiana in Eugene Onegin for Theatre du Chatelet, and Juliette in Romeo and Juliette for Opera Comique, Paris; Pamina in Die Zauberflote and Juliette for Opera de Nancy; Micaela in Carmen for New Israeli Opera and Turin; Liu in Turandot for the Royal Opera House and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra for Welsh National Opera.

Her operatic recordings include Eugene Onegin (with Bychkov), Cosi Fan Tutte, Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni all with Mackerras and L’assedio Di Calais with David Parry. Other recordings include Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini) with Marriner, Frauenliebe und Leben (Schumann), Tosti songs and a solo album of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini songs.

Nuccia Focile has an extensive concert career and has sung regularly at the Edinburgh Festival in recital and often in concerts with Sir Charles Mackerras. Recent engagements have included Mimi in Florence, Susanna (Figaro) at Royal Opera House and the title role in Manon Lescaut and Tatyana Eugene Onegin in Nancy and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni for WNO.

2000 engagements included Despina Cosi Fan Tutte at the Opera de Bastille in Paris with Sir Charles Mackerras, Amelia Simon Boccanegra for the New Zealand International Festival for the Arts, Susanna Marriage of Figaro with the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-Juku Opera Project (previously known as the Saito Kinen Festival conducted by Ozawa, Manon Lescaut with La Fenice in Copenhagen and Antonia Les Contes D’Hoffmann at the Royal Oera House. She recently sang Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro for Welsh National Opera.