Chiara Osella
With a three-octave vocal range and a curriculum that spans stage and screen, Chiara Osella is an eclectic artist whose repertoire encompasses baroque, classical, and contemporary opera. She started her career as an opera singer (mezzo-soprano), making her debut as Flora in La Traviata at Teatro Lirico Sperimentale A. Belli of Spoleto as a winner of its 66th annual singing competition. She has been member of the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo of the Palau des Arts in Valencia, where she worked alongside Plácido Domingo and under the guidance of stage director Davide Livermore. She has performed in important productions and concerts in Italy and abroad including at the Teatro Regio di Torino, Royal Opera House Muscat, Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, Seoul Arts Center, etc.
Later on, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Disciplines of Arts, Music and Entertainment in Turin, with a focus on didactic planning and techniques of Educational and Social Theater, which she puts into practice in the projects Community Opera and Get Close to Opera of the RESEO network. Her work as a stage director stands out for research and experimentation with new languages in musical theatre. She made her debut as a stage director with the play Magzhan produced for the Turkistan Musical and Drama Theater (Kazakhstan) and the production of Mozart’s early one-act singspiel Bastien und Bastienne for Teatro Regio in Turin. She was trained under the guidance of director Davide Livermore, and she continues to work alongside him as assistant director in productions at Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Bellini di Catania, Palau de Les Arts in Valencia and for Johannes Erath at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Festival Torre del Lago. As a playwright, she co-authored the screenplay for the 2020 worldwide broadcast of the Teatro alla Scala post-lockdown season opening concert on 7 December 2020, entitled A riveder le stelle (Again the Stars) and directed by Davide Livermore.
She is co-founder and co-arranger of the cross-over project Swing Opera (Festival Verdi OFF, Macerata Opera Festival, Umbria Jazz, Russian tour, etc.). She also regularly collaborates as co-creator, performer and vocal coach with the contemporary theatre and dance company C&C / Carlo Massari.
Recently, she became finalist of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater’s Young Director Competition (for the production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann at the LNOBT in Vilnius, Lithuania, season 2023–2024) and of the 13th European Opera-directing Prize (for the chamber production of Smetana’s The Two Widows at the 2024 Smetana’s Litomyšl Festival, the Czech Republic).
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