Anna Bonitatibus, a native of the Basilicata region of Italy, began studying music at the age of nine. She received a diploma with honour in both Piano and Voice. After winning several International Voice Competitions, she decided to focus on the repertoire of the 18th century and the Belcanto technique.
Her first recording in 1992 was La Griselda by Antonio Vivaldi. Since then, she has performed works from the Baroque Period by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Porpora, Bononcini, and Scarlatti, as well as Neapolitan comic operas by Cimarosa, Pergolesi, Paisiello, and Pavesi, Mozart masterpieces, and the leading roles in Rossini’s operas.
Anna Bonitatibus has appeared frequently in the world’s most famous opera houses and concert halls, such as Covent Garden in London; Nederlandse Opera and Conzertgebouw in Amsterdam; Bavarian State Opera and RundfunkBayerisch in Munich; Zurich Staatsoper; Salzburg Festival; Dresden Opera; Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscow; Teatro Real of Madrid; Théâtre des Champs-Élyséesin Paris; Monnaie Theatre in Brussels; Wien Staatsoper, Konzerthaus and Theater an der Wien; Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome; Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
In 1999, she made her debut at the La Scala Opera House in Milan in Mozart’s Don Giovanni conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti. That year, she also sang Adalgisa in a new production of Bellini’s Norma at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
In 2000, for the inauguration of the Lyon Opera Season, Anna sang Angelina in Rossini’s Cenerentola, a role she has performed many times at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Dresden Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Zurich Opera, Rome Opera, Las Palmas, Moscow, and Frankfurt. Angelina and Rosina in Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia, which she performed in Florence and Teatro Regio in Parma, are among her favourite roles.
Thanks to her performance of Cherubino in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro (London, Paris, Munich, Turin, Valencia), Sesto in Clemenza di Tito (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Budapest), and Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Tenerife, Moscow, Genoa), Anna Bonitatibus is a foremost interpreter of travesti roles.
Anna Bonitatibus frequently performs French repertoire: in 2005, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, she sang Orphée in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, the version that Berlioz revised for the famous mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot.
In the 2011-12 season, among others, she made her debut in the role title of Cavalli’sDidone in Caen, Luxembourg and Paris with William Christie as conductor, Le Nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden in London conducted by Antonio Pappano, and the new appointments with Rossini, Monteverdi, Mozart, in Italy and abroad.
