Very young wins the competition Mattia Battistini and debuted at the Teatro Flavio Vespasiano in Rieti which starred in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. In 2001, after a series of youth experiences, she began her career on the international scene. Her authoritative and flexible vocalism, supported by a solid and refined singing technique, nuanced phrasing and remarkable acting abilities, enable her to encompass a wide operatic repertoire. Her vocal gifts and dazzling appearance have made Amarilli Nizza one of the most acclaimed sopranos of her generation in the most prestigious Theatre and International Opera Festivals:
Covent Garden London, Staatsoper Vienna, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro del Liceu di Barcellona, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Hamburg Staatsoper, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Leipzig Opernhaus, Dresden Semperoper, Teatro La Fenice Venice, Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro Opera Roma, Teatro Lirico Cagliari, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Teatro San Carlo Naples , Teatro alle Terme di Caracalla , Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Teatro Regio Parma, Macerata Opera Festival, Kremlin Palace Moscow, The Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville, Nice Opera, Cesis Latvian Festival, Opera Palma de Mallorca, Avenches Opera Festival, Megaron Athens Mussikis, New National Theatre Tokyo , Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Opera Royal Wallonie Liege, Teatro Campoamor Oviedo, Busseto Verdi Festival , Teatro Comunale Modena , Teatro Ponchielli Cremona, Piacenza Teatro Municipale, Teatro Comunale Ferrara, Brescia Teatro Grande, Teatro Argentina Rome, Tokyo’s Bunkamura, Teatro Goldoni Livorno, Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Operaireland, Teatro Cilea Reggio Calabria, Salerno Teatro Verdi, Opera of Monte Carlo, Osaka Festival Hall.

HER REPERTOIRE
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Aida, Macbeth, Nabucco, Attila, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Ernani, La Forza del Destino, Luisa Miller, I Masnadieri, Otello, Simon Boccanegra, I Vespri Siciliani, Messa da Requiem
GIACOMO PUCCINI: Tosca , Madama Butterfly , Manon Lescaut, Il Tabarro , Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, La Bohème , Edgar , Turandot.
FRANCESCO CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO: Pagliacci
GEORGES BIZET: Carmen (Micaëla)
ARRIGO BOITO: Mephistopheles
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro
JULES MASSENET: Thaïs
PIETRO MASCAGNI: Friend
RICCARDO ZANDONAI: Francesca da Rimini, I Cavalieri di Ekebù
FRANZ LEHAR: Die Lustige Witwe

AWARDS AND PRIZES
Orazio Tosi Award for Tosca – Regio of Parma (2002)
Juliet Prize for Aida – Arena di Verona (2006)
Gianni Poggi International Prize for Il Trittico – Piacenza (2007)
Special Prize city of Anguillara (2007)
Premio Internazionale Tiberini D ’ Gold 2008 (San Lorenzo in Campo)
Hank Gold Award 2009 (Carpi)
Premio Zenatello 2009 (Verona)
Owl d ’ Gold Award 2010 career ( Vizzini)
Marcella Pobbe Award 2010 ( Vicenza )
Premio Cilea 2011 ( Reggio Calabria)
Myrta Gabardi Award 2011 ( Milan )
Premio Giuseppe Verdi – Giovanni Zenatello 2013 ( Verona )

AMARILLI NIZZA HAS WORKED WITH OUTSTANDING CONDUCTOR SUCH AS:
Maurizio Rinaldi, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Metha, Daniel Oren, Eve Queler, Bruno Bartoletti, Alain Lombard, Philippe, Auguin,Markus Letonja, Patrick Fourniller, Ulf Schirmer, Renato Palumbo, Maurizio Arena, Maurizio Benini, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Alain Daniel, Donato Renzetti, Giuliano Carella, Gianluca Martinenghi, Riccardo Frizza, Gunter Nehueld, Piegiorgio Morandi, Massimo De Bernardt, Stefano Ranzani, Kery-Linn Wilson, Steven Mercurio, Niksa Bareza, Ralph Weikart, Yoram David, Massimiliano Stefanelli, Sutey Viekoslav, Romano Gandolfi, George Pehlivanian, Paolo Carignani, Julian Kovachev,Carlo Palleschi,Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli,Paolo Arrivabeni, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Antonino Fogliani, Pedro Halffter, Andrea Battistoni, Marco Armiliato, Lu Jia, Mathias Foremny, Antony Bramall, Omer Welber Meier-, Giacomo Sagripanti.

STAGE DIRECTORS SUCH AS:
Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Konvitchny, Grahm Vick, Paul Curran, PierLuigi Pizzi, Saverio Marconi, Vivien Hewitt Stefano Vizioli, Stephen Lawless, Jean-Louis Grinda, Gianfranco De Bosio, Sorelle, Hugo De Ana, Gilbert Delfo, Alberto Fassini, Roberto De Simone, Massimo Ranieri, Federico Tiezzi, Nicolas Joel, Gino Landi, Cristina Pezzoli, Isabelle Wagner, Giorgio Gallione, Ivan Stefanutti, Dieter Kaegi, Leo de Bernardinis, Beppe De Tomasi, Pierfrancesco Maestrini, Renata Scotto, Antonello Madau Diaz, David Mcclaren, Friedrich Goetzhe, Pier Alli, Lorenzo Mariani, Renzo Giacchieri, Franca Valeri, John Scandella, Giulio Ciabatti, Francesco Micheli, Mario Gas, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Alex Rigola.