Martina Russomanno Soprano

Artist in residence at the Paris Opera Academy since September 2021

Born in Italy, Martina Russomanno began her career as an actress and singer at an early age. She began singing opera in Livorno where she sang small roles in the operas of Puccini and Mascagni. She then entered the class of Michèle Crider at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg where she obtained her Bachelor's degree. She made her debut at La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels in the role of Juliet in Korngold's The Dead City. 

In 2021, she sang Vitellia in Mozart's Titus Clemence and Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. Second prize at the Duschek Competition in Prague, she won several prizes at the Portofino International Opera Competition. 

Martina Russomanno joined the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris in September 2021. In the spring of 2022, she is Fortuna and Drusilla in Monteverdi's Il Nerone- L'Incoronazione di Poppea with the artists of the Académie and the Poème Harmonique, directed by Alain Françon and conducted by Vincent Dumestre, at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and on tour at the Dijon Opera and at the Maison de la Culture in Amiens.