# Vannina Santoni

Vannina Santoni (born 1987) is a French lyric soprano, who has appeared in France and abroad.

## Life and career

Santoni was born in Volpajola, Corsica, in 1987. Her first singing experience was in the children's choir of the Maîtrise de Radio France where she sang with conductors such as James Levine and Georges Prêtre. She studied violin and piano at the Conservatoire Georges Bizet in Paris and took dancing lessons. She studied voice at the Conservatoire de Paris, in classes of Jean-Paul Fouchécourt and Ruggero Raimondi, graduating in 2010.
Santoni began her career performing as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni in Italy and at the Royal Opera of Versailles. Santoni performed in the world premiere of Philippe Hurel's Pigeons d'argile in 2014, as Patricia Baer at the Capitole de Toulouse. She performed as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Festival Musiques au cœur d'Antibes d'Ève Ruggieri. In 2017 she appeared as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and as Frasquita in the same opera at the Opéra Bastille. In 2017 she first appeared in the title role of Massenet's Manon at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo She performed as Juliette at the Opéra de Nice and as la Princesse Saamcheddine in Henri Rabaud's Mârouf, savetier du Caire at both the Opéra de Bordeaux and the Opéra-Comique where she also appeared as Agnès in Gounod's La nonne sanglante. At the Paris Opera, she performed as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in 2019, as Dona Musique/La Bouchère in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's The Satin Slipper in 2021; and as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte in 2024. In 2024 she performed as Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Santoni has appeared in France also at the Cité de la Musique, Capitole de Toulouse, Tours Opera, Opéra de Nancy, and in Europe at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Manoel Theatre of Malta, the Cologne Opera and Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
Her roles also include especially Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Leïla in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Adele in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, and Suor Angelica and Lauretta in Puccini's Il trittico.
In concert, Santoni has performed Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms, Verdi's Requiem, Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore and the Great Mass in C minor, Schubert's Mass in G major and Émile Paladilhe's oratorio Les Saintes Maries de la Mer.

### Personal life

Santoni has a Corsian father and a Russian mother. She is married to a conductor; they have two children.

## Discography

* Johann Christian Bach: Zanaïda. CD from the Théâtre de Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines (2014).
* Philippe Hurel: Les Pigeons d'argile, DVD of the 2014 world premiere at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (2014). conducted by Tito Ceccherini, directed by Mariame Clément.
* Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021), with Chorus of Opéra de Lille, Les Siècles, cond. François-Xavier Roth.
* Par Amour, music from operas, with Orchestre national de Lille, cond.: Jean-Marie Zeitouni (2025).

## Réference

* 1 2 3 4 5 Manheim, James (2025). "Vannina Santoni Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 March 2025..
* 1 2 3 "Vannina Santon". Paris Opera. 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025..
* ↑ "Vannina Santon". Naxos. 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025..
* ↑ "Carmen à Bastille : la déchirante résurrection d'Alagna". lyrix.com (in French). 11 March 2017..
* ↑ "Dialogues des Carmélites". Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2025..
* 1 2 Waltenberger, Ingobert (13 February 2025). "CD "Par Amour": Vannina Santoni singt Arien von Alfano, Catalani, Gounod, Massenet, Verdi, Puccini und Tomasi; Alpha". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2025..
* ↑ Adam, Hélène (20 November 2019). "Entretien avec la soprano Vannina Santoni". Passion Opera. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
* ↑ Bach, Johann Christian; Bottarelli, Giovanni Gualberto; Naxos Digital Services US (2012), Bach, J. C.: Zanaida [Opera] (Opera Fuoco Orchestra, Stern), Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services US, OCLC 885060515
* ↑ Hurel, Philippe; Viel, Tanguy; Ceccherini, Tito; Clément, Mariame (2014), Les pigeons d'argile (in French), Paris, [Lieu de publication non identifié]: Editions Henry Lemoine. ÉOle Records, OCLC 989514160
* ↑ Quinn, John (April 2022). "Claude Debussy (1862-1918) / Pelléas et Mélisande". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 8 March 2025..
* ↑ Debussy, Claude; Santoni, Vannina; Todorovitch, Marie-Ange; Joubert, Hadrien; Behr, Julien; Duhamel, Alexandre; Pass, Damien; Teitgen, Jean; Roth, François-Xavier; Maeterlinck, Maurice; Siècles (Musical group); Opéra de Lille Chœur (2022), Pelléas et Mélisande (in French), Arles: Harmonia Mundi, OCLC 1327861973