{"id":592766,"date":"2022-08-30T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservatoriorossini.it\/docenti\/stefania-donzelli\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:07:56","slug":"stefania-donzelli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.conservatoriorossini.it\/en\/teachers\/stefania-donzelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefania Donzelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She studied singing with Patricia Brown at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro, graduating with top marks. She obtained a second-cycle academic diploma in Vocal Chamber Music at the Pergolesi Conservatoire of Fermo with 110 cum laude, with a thesis on Brahms\u2019s Lieder. She has won several prizes in international competitions such as the Toti dal Monte in Treviso, the Viotti Competition in Vercelli, the Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia, and the Belli Competition in Spoleto. She has performed with internationally renowned conductors including T. Pinnock, B. Campanella, S. Bychkov, I. Bolton, A. Bosman, M. Marvulli, G. di Stefano, D. Golub, G. Carella, O. Dantone, M. Stefanelli, Lu Jia, G. Masini, A. Campori, M. Benini, R. Abbado, F. Luisi, and E. Hull. She studied with the great conductor Peter Maag, with whom she made her debut in many Mozart roles such as Susanna, Despina, Bastiana, and Mme Hertz. She also trained with artists such as Regina Resnik and Leyla Gencer (Bottega del Teatro Comunale di Treviso). She has performed leading roles in operas including La Sonnambula, La Boh\u00e8me, L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore, Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi, among others. Among the most prestigious theatres where she has appeared are the Teatro Comunale of Florence, La Fenice of Venice, the Comunale of Bologna, the Regio of Turin, the Regio of Parma, San Carlo of Naples, the Festival della Valle d\u2019Itria, Verdi of Trieste, Arena Sferisterio of Macerata, Teatro Rossini of Pesaro, Comunale of Cagliari, and Petruzzelli of Bari. She has also performed in concert halls in Hannover, Adelaide, Melbourne, Bern, Seoul, Paris, Tokyo, Milan (Sala Verdi), and Siena (Accademia Chigiana). She has given several concerts with Andrea Bocelli in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Hamburg (Musikhalle), Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts), and Mannheim (Mozartsaal). She has also worked on vocal chamber repertoire in German, French, and English, which she speaks fluently, performing numerous concerts in Italy and abroad (Russia, China, United States, Norway, Spain, Poland). Her discography includes recordings for Arts, Dynamic, Bongiovanni, and Nuova Era. Of particular interest is Rita, ou le mari battu by Donizetti in the world premiere recording of the French version for Bongiovanni. She is the only singer from the Marche region mentioned in Giorgio Appolonia\u2019s book *Il soprano rossiniano* (Lemma Press). She is Artistic Director of the Marche Opera Network and, since 2022, Artistic Director of the Musica Incantatrice season at the Teatro Comunale of Porto San Giorgio. She is a tenured professor of voice at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro, and has taught voice and vocal chamber music at the Conservatoires of Matera, Udine, Foggia, Pescara, and Teramo. She has held masterclasses and concerts on vocal technique and Italian repertoire at SUNY Fredonia, Buffalo, and Chautauqua (NY), the Higher Conservatoire of Music of Las Palmas and Tenerife, the K. Szymanowski Academy in Katowice (Poland), the University of Stavanger (Norway), and the conservatoires of Wuhan, Changsha, and Hangzhou. In October 2025 she taught interpretation, diction, and Italian repertoire technique at Montclair University in the United States. In 2013 she was selected for the position of Assistant Voice Professor at the State University of Oklahoma (USA). In May 2017 she was appointed Voice Professor at the University of Arizona (USA). In October 2022 she received the Adriatico Award, \u201ca sea that unites,\u201d given to Italian and international excellences from countries bordering the Adriatic Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She studied singing with Patricia Brown at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro, graduating with top marks. She obtained a second-cycle academic diploma in Vocal Chamber Music at the Pergolesi Conservatoire of Fermo with 110 cum laude, with a thesis on Brahms\u2019s Lieder. 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