Born in Siena, Laura Polverelli successfully completed her studies in Florence Conservatory, both in Canto and Piano.
She then graduated from the Musikhochschule in Munchen for Opera, Oratorio and Lieder.
Winner of important national and international competitions, Laura Polverelli is regularly invited by the leading festivals and Opera Houses worldwide, among which the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Teatro del Maggio Musicale (Florence), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Regio di Torino (Turin), Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (Naples),Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa), Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Accademia Chigiana (Siena), Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Real de Madrid, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris), Vlaamse Opera (Antwerp), Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), Opéra de Lausanne, Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro), Glyndebourne International Festival, Festival of Orange, Festival Mozart in La Coruña, Festival de Beaune, Festival de Saint-Denis and Festwochen Alter Musik in Innsbruck.
She has been working with renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Jeffrey Tate, Colin Davis, René Jacobs, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gary Bertini, Fabio Biondi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Bruno Campanella, Ottavio Dantone, Carlo Rizzi, Christophe Rousset, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Andrea Marcon, Myung-Whun Chung.
Among her most significant engagements should be remembered:
Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Ferrara (conducted by Claudio Abbado) and at the Glyndebourne Festival, at Turin’s Teatro Regio, Neaples’ San Carlo, Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, Lisbon’s Teatro Sao Carlo, as well as at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, the Festival La Coruña, the Roman Accademia di Santa Cecilia, always having been overwhelmingly acclaimed both from the critics and the audience.
She has been a brilliant Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Parisian Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Florence’s Teatro del Maggio Musicale (under the direction of Roberto Abbado), as well as at the Neapolitan Arena Flegrea.
She was Sesto in Händel’s Giulio Cesare at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Madrid’s Teatro Real and Cherubino from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in Paris, Munich, Bologna, Rome and Lugano.
In Ancona (Teatro alle Muse), she has successfully interpreted the role of the Enfant in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, as well as Elena in Rossini’s La Donna del Lago at Lisbon’s Teatro Sao Carlo, Rodrigo in Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice and Felicia in Meyerbeer’s Il Crociato in Egitto (the latter two also published as DVD).
In the United States, she has had enormous success as Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Seattle Opera, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Philadelphia Opera Company. Under the baton of Zubin Mehta, she has been Meg in Verdi’s Falstaff at Florence’s Teatro del Maggio Musicale, touring subsequently to Japan.
During the last years, Laura Polverelli has enlarged her repertoire with new roles, making important debuts with the role of Giovanna Seymour in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena in Verona (with Graham Vick as stage director), Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda at the Macerata Sferisterio Festival (with Pierluigi Pizzi as stage director) and at Catania’s Teatro Bellini, Sesto in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito in Stresa: all acclaimed role debuts both from the audience as from the critics.
Finally, she also sang Edwige in Rossini’s Gugliemo Tell under Antonio Pappano at the Roman Accademia di Santa Cecilia, as well as Sara (Roberto Devereux) and Adalgisa (Norma) at the Trieste’s Teatro Verdi.
In 2010, she has sung her first Romeo in Capuleti e Montecchi in Liège.
With regard to the French repertoire, she has portrayed a splendid Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte (released on DVD and directed by Federico Tiezzi), Carmen in Jesi and Treviso, Charlotte in Werther in Catania.
Her most recent successful roles have been: Angelina in Rossini’s Cenerentola in Bologna, conducted by Michele Mariotti, Her debut in Vienna’s Staatsoper as Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia, as Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia and Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte.