BONGIOVANNI Felicia,
soprano

Enfant prodige,  she makes her debut at the “Zecchino d’Oro” young singers’s competition at the “Don Orione” Theater in Palermo and in the children’s choir in Puccini’s Boheme at the Ponchielli Theater in Cremona.  At the age of sixteen she devoted herself to the study of opera singing with the teacher Filomena Marzo Andreoli and subsequently she moved to the “G.B.  Martini” Conservatory in Bologna, where she graduated with M. Leone Magiera, receiving the Zucchelli Prize as best student.  Later she attended various academies: Verdiana with Carlo Bergonzi, Rossiniana with Alberto Zedda, del Bel Canto with Simone Alaimo and stages with prestigious artists, including Gianni Raimondi, Rosanna Carteri, Sesto Bruscantini, Claudio Desderi, Alessandro Corbelli.

Winner of the National Opera Singing Competition “City of Pistoia” and of the selections for the debut in the role of Gilda under the direction of Ronaldo Panerai in Lastra a Signa (FI).  She was chosen by the famous journalist and event organizer Bruno Tosi for the Maria Callas’s memorial concerts during the exhibitions dedicated to her and organized by him in Italy and abroad.  In collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she sang in Addis Ababa in front of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella for the inauguration of the ‘G. Verdi’ Theater accompanied at the piano by Maestro Lorenzo Bavaj and at the National Theater of Luanda (Angola), where she brought for the first time the opera singing in concert in the presence of the highest national institutional authorities.

She sang in the presence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus on the occasion of the first performance at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano of the Opera  ‘27 dollari’  by the contemporary composer Paola Samoggia (the opera was produced by the Italian National Singers Association of which Felicia is Ambassador), inspired by his book “Banker to the poor”. She has sung in important Italian theaters including the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, in the role of Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi conducted by Zoltan Pesko , the Teatro di Montepulciano, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. She has participated in the Rossini Opera Festival (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), and performed in the Theaters of the Lyric Network of the Marche  Region and of the Tuscany, Lombardy and Trentino Theater Networks.  She has performed on the channels of the National Italian Broadcasting Company Rai1, Rai2, Rai3, Rai International and Rai Word  with international stars of the show business.  She has received numerous prizes, awards and recorded various CDs: “La cavalleria rusticana” and “La Pinotta” by Pietro Mascagni, “La Vanna” by Lamberto Pavanelli for the record label Opera Discovery (receiving beautiful reviews from musicologists in the sector) and “Pace a Voi” for the Edizioni Paoline label with the Italian actress Claudia Koll. She is  Artistic Director of the “Impresa e Cultura” (Business and Culture) project and of the Yunus Social Business Center at the University of Urbino (Italy).