" Miriam Albano sings her broad arias with a voice of splendid colour, slightly dark but capable of soaring smoothly into the high register; the singer used her perfect technique no longer for purely virtuosic displays, but to bring out the contrasting passions that animate this magnificent character."
Thanks to her wide vocal range which allows her to freely move between soprano and mezzo, Miriam Albano is familiar with a vast and eclectic repertoire spanning from Baroque to the present day.
Miriam, from Venice, studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in her city and at the University of Music in Vienna. She perfected with artists such as Brigitte Fassbaender and Anne Sofie von Otter.
She has won numerous international competitions, including Neue Stimmen (2015) in Germany and Francisco Viñas (2016) in Spain.
Miriam represented Italy as a finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition (2017) in the United Kingdom. In addition to her vocal talents, Miriam plays the violin.
She recently received great public and critical acclaim for her performance of the role of Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, performing at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux, the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna and the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles.
From 2016 to 2019 she was a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble where she debuted the roles of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and Annio in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito.
For the Salzburg Festival, she performed the role of Puck in Purcell's The Fairy Queen. At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf she presented the roles of Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Stephano in Romeo et Juliette, and the title role in Rossini's Cinderella.
At the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux, and the Teatro Regio in Turin, she distinguished herself as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. For the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino she sang Cherubino again and the role of Melanto in Monteverdi's Ritorno di Ulisse in patria.
At the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon she was Annio in a concert version of La clemenza di Tito.
In the symphonic and chamber repertoire she has performed at the LAC in Lugano, Radiokulturhaus in Vienna, at the opening concert of the Rheingau Musikfestival with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, at the Festival Internacional de Santander, and at the Tonhalle in Zurich.
Miriam has collaborated with conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Ádám Fisher, Tomas Netopil, Antonino Fogliani, Stefano Montanari, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ottavio Dantone, Mikko Franck, Evelino Pidó, Frédéric Chaslin, Alondra de la Parra, Diego Fasolis, Alain Altinoglou, Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, and directors such as Lotte de Beer, Graham Vick, Laurent Pelly, and Robert Carsen.