"Elina Garanca and friends" Meet the guest soloists. Eleonora Buratto

Eleonora Buratto is one of the most highly acclaimed lyric sopranos in the world.

She began her career in 2009 singing as Creusa in Demofoonte conducted by Riccardo Muti, under whose baton she then sang in I Due Figaro by Mercadante , Don Pasquale, Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff, Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Aida.

At the start of 2015 she was Corinna at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam in Il Viaggio a Reims after which her international career continued to develop.

Her current repertoire comprises signature roles such as Mimì, Liù, Micaela, Contessa di Almaviva, Donna Anna, Luisa Miller, Elettra (Idomeneo), Elvira (Ernani) ; she has collaborated with conductors such as Currentzis, Mehta, Mariotti, Dudamel, Pappano, Gatti, Chailly and Nézet - Séguin. Among her most recent debuts: Fiordiligi, Anaï, Desdemona in Verdi's and Rossini's Otello , Aida, Anna Bolena , Madama Butterfly and Elisabetta in Don Carlo.

Upcoming engagements include her debut as Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffman at the Teatro alla Scala , La bohème at the MET, her first Madama Butterfly in Europe at the Rome Opera and the New Year’s Concert at La Fenice.

In 2022 she was awarded the Abbiati Prize by the Italian Association of Music Critics.