Apulian-born mezzo-soprano Marzia Marzo has built a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart, Rossini and Bellini to Strauss, Massenet and the Baroque. A former member of the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper and, for six seasons, of the ensemble of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, she has appeared at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Salzburger Landestheater and the Monteverdi Festival Cremona.

2026/27 SEASON

Marzia Marzo opens the 2026/27 season at the Salzburger Landestheater as Isabella in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, in Alexandra Liedtke's production conducted by Carlo Benedetto Cimento.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

In June 2026 she sang Venere and Tesifone in the first performance in modern times of Cavalli's Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo at the Monteverdi Festival at the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, staged by Petra Deidda and conducted by Antonio Greco. Earlier in the 2025/26 season she made her debut at the Salzburger Landestheater as Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare.

2025 brought two role debuts: Charlotte in Massenet's Werther at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (staged by Jan Eßinger) and the Second Maid in Elektra at the Teatro Filarmonico of the Fondazione Arena di Verona. In 2024 she sang her first Angelina in La Cenerentola with the Orchestra Senzaspine at the Teatro Duse in Bologna and the Teatro Galli in Rimini, and in 2023 she returned to the role of Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Staatstheater Hannover.

From 2017 to 2023 Marzia Marzo was a member of the ensemble of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, where her roles included Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Hélène (La belle Hélène), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), the title role in Handel's Rinaldo, Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Olga (Eugene Onegin) and the Second Secretary (Nixon in China). She took her leave of the Würzburg audience as Muse/Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. During these years she also made her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Maddalena in Il viaggio a Reims (2017) and returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper for the title role in Sciarrino's Vanitas at the Munich Opera Festival (2018).

From the 2014/15 season until July 2016 she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper, singing Zaida (Il turco in Italia), Annina (La traviata), Isolier (Le comte Ory), Nancy (Albert Herring) and Die Vertraute (Elektra) under conductors including Kirill Petrenko, Ivor Bolton, Asher Fisch and Oksana Lyniv. Immediately afterwards she made her debut at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari as Baronessa Aspasia in Rossini's La pietra del paragone (2016).

On the concert platform she has appeared at the George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest, the Mozartfest Würzburg and the Biennale di Venezia, where she took part in the world premiere of Admir Shkurtaj's chamber opera Katër i Radës (2014).

Marzia Marzo won First Prize at the Concurs Josep Mirabent i Magrans in Barcelona and at the Concorso Tommaso Traetta, Third Prize at the Concorso Valerio Gentile, the Audience Prize at the Caffarelli Baroque Competition 2024 and a role prize at the Cavalli Monteverdi Competition 2025. She was also a finalist of the AsLiCo competition in Como.

She completed her master's degree in singing and chamber music with distinction at the Conservatorio "Tito Schipa" in Lecce, where she also studied piano, and made her stage debut in 2012 as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.

SELECTED ROLES

Isabella · L'italiana in Algeri
Salzburger Landestheater

Sesto · Giulio Cesare
Salzburger Landestheater

Charlotte · Werther
Theater und Orchester Heidelberg

Angelina · La Cenerentola
Teatro Duse Bologna · Teatro Galli Rimini

Romeo · I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Staatstheater Hannover · Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

Rosina · Il barbiere di Siviglia
Mainfranken Theater Würzburg