Biography
Corinna Mologni was born in Milan, Italy. She graduated in timpani and percussion at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of her hometown, where she also studied voice and viola. While enjoying her successful career as symphonic timpanist, Mrs Mologni continued her voice studies at Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with Peter Gottlieb and privately with Renata Scotto, Irina Gavrilovici, Jeffrey Goldberg, Dorothy Irving, Mignon Lollini and Marta Lantieri. Her first appearances in Italy were followed by a long engagement with the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki where she sang a variety of roles including Angelica in Orlando Paladino(Haydn); Woglinde and Waldvogel in the celebrated New Millennium production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen ; Adina in L'Elisir d'amore (Donizetti) ; Musetta in La Bohème (Puccini) and Magda in La Rondine (Puccini); Zdenka Arabella (R.Strauss) and Violetta in La Traviata (Verdi), quickly gaining recognition for her excellent vocal technique and her dramatic versatility. With other Finnish opera companies she portrayed the title role of Suor Angelica (Puccini); Lucia in The rape of Lucretia (Britten); Desdemona in Otello (Verdi). Back in 2003, she created the role of Contessa di Folleville in the widely acclaimed new production of Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims by Nobel Prize in Literature Dario Fo: this production was live broadcasted from Helsinki by the European cultural TV channel Arte. Since then, Mrs. Mologni feels a closer affinity with Rossini's works and enjoys the challenge of combining her pyrotechnic coloratura to her dynamic stage presence and infallible comic timing. Subsequently, she appeared again as Contessa di Folleville at the Stadtheater Bern, at the New Israeli opera in Tel Aviv and at the Staatsoper Hannover. Her other Rossini's roles include Comtesse Adèle in Le Comte Ory (opposite tenor Laurence Brownlee) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Isabella in L'inganno felice under the baton of the world-renowned Rossini specialist Alberto Zedda for the re-opening of the Hystorical Kurtheater at the 2005 Rossini Festival in Wildbad (including CD live-recording for Naxos) and Sofia in Il Signor Bruschino at the Opéra de Lausanne. Among her other career highlights figure the roles of Elvira in I Puritani (Bellini); Antonia in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Stadttheater Bern; Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at Opéra de Lausanne; Nedda in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) at Aalto Theater Essen; Desdemona in Otello at Rimsky-Korsakov Theatre in St Petersburg; Cleopatra in the audience and critical acclaimed production of Händel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto at New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv; Anne Truelove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo where she also appeared in the ballet I have a dream alongside World Ballet Star Carla Fracci. At Grand Théâtre de Genève she portrayed the roles of Despina in Così fan tutte, and of Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito (opposite Mezzosoprano Joyce Di Donato), which she also interpreted at Opéra de Caen. She appeared as Zdenka in the celebrated R.Strauss Arabella production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris alongside Karita Mattila and Thomas Hampson. Other appearances included her début at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with the role of Weltgeist in Mozart's Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots,( special production for the Mozart year 2006); Macau Music Festival as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro; Festival Mozart de A Coruña as Autonoe in Sartorio's L'Orfeo (awarded the Premio Lírico Teatro Campoamor 2006 in Spain for Best new production). Since her Traviata début in the year 2000 at the Finnish National Opera, Violetta quickly became one of her signature roles in which she appears regularly and that she most recently returned to portray in Helsinki, Genève, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, Lugano, Innsbruck and Chisinau. Mrs. Mologni is equally noteworthy in her symphonic concert engagements, which have included Rossini's Stabat Mater with Tapiola Sinfonietta , Mozart's C-moll Mass, Mahler's 2nd Symphony with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Opening-Gala Concert at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the recording for the record label Stradivarius of En Archè by Ivan Fedele for soprano, violin and Orchestra with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. She has recorded for RAI Radio3 (Italy), RNE Radio Clásica (Spain), YLE TV (Finland), Stradivarius and Naxos.
