As Mrs. Quickly, Romina Boscolo gives another astonishing performance with magnificent low notes
Biography
Italian contralto Romina Boscolo performs internationally, with a repertoire spanning Handel, Verdi and Wagner. She has appeared in productions alongside Roberto Alagna, Asmik Grigorian and Ambrogio Maestri.
Her roles include Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, Mrs Quickly in Falstaff, Erda in Das Rheingold, Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica, Ježibaba in Rusalka, the Countess in The Queen of Spades and Polinesso in Ariodante. Her repertoire also includes Carmen, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Mary in Der fliegende Holländer.
She has performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. In Germany, her engagements have included Cologne Opera, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Theater Bonn and Nationaltheater Mannheim, as well as theatres in Saarbrücken, Lübeck, Bremen, Kiel and Darmstadt. She has also appeared at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo and Ankara Opera.
She has worked with conductors including Pinchas Steinberg, Jader Bignamini, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Giampaolo Bisanti, Antonello Allemandi, John Neschling, Alexander Joel, Will Humburg, Oleg Caetani and Patrick Lange.
In 2024, she sang Mrs Quickly in a new production of Falstaff in Wiesbaden and Larina in Eugene Onegin in Bonn. In 2025, she created the role of Giganta in the world premiere of Anno Schreier’s Die blaue Sau in Bonn and appeared in Il trittico in Mannheim. In 2017, she created the role of Aliyah in the world premiere of Søren Nils Eichberg’s Schönerland in Wiesbaden.
Her concert appearances include the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the RAI Auditorium in Turin, CSO Ada Ankara and the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne, with a repertoire ranging from Bach and Mahler to contemporary composers. In 2023, she premiered Evviva la Rossa!, a tribute to Milva conceived by the artist, at the Internationale Maifestspiele in Wiesbaden.
