Rosalia Cid
soprano
Born in Santiago de Compostela in 1996, she began her musical journey as a child in the “Compostelan Chapel” of early music of her city’s cathedral and the OSG children’s choir, and then graduated in Singing with top honors. In 2018 she moved to Florence to study and in January 2019 she made her debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi,she then joined the Accademia of Maggio Musicale, where she sang in L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, Così fan tutte and Turandot.She also sang in Haydn’s La Creazione in Festival della Valle d’Itria conducted by Fabio Luisi, and performed Norina in Don Pasquale at the Mario del Monaco Theater in Treviso and the Teatro Verdi in Padua.
She participates in the Bottega Donizettiana 2021 curated by Alex Esposito and Francesco Micheli and in the Opening Gala of the Donizetti Festival (November 2021) in Bergamo, in the same month she debuts the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at Teatro Goldoni in Florence, then Haydn’s La Creazione at the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, La vedova allegra in Treviso and Padua, Mozart’s Requiem with the orchestra La Toscanini in Parma and Pavia, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino, conducted by Theodor Guschlbauer, a new Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala, and La finta semplice at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She made her debut at Semperoper Dresden in a new Sonnambula, directed by Rolando Villazón.
Among her next engagements, Rigoletto in Santiago do Chile, Don Carlo and La rondine at La Scala. She joined Dresden Semperoper’s ensemble in 2024/25, singing primary roles.