Alda Caiello

Alda Caiello completed her vocal and piano studies at Perugia Conservatory. Alda Caiello sing a broad repertoire that ranges from ancient music to contemporary compositions and worked with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Arturo Tamayo, Peter Keuschnig, Massimo de Bernart, Pascal Rophè, Wayne Marshall, Christopher Franklin, Stephen Ausbury, Peter Rundel, Lucas Vis, Pietro Borgonovo, Renato Rivolta, Marcello Panni, Fabio Maestri, Marco Angius, and Emilio Pomarico.

She is regularly invited by La Biennale Musica and Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Teatro alla Scala in Milano, Bologna Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Milano Musica, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini, Festival di Orvieto, Festival of Contemporary Music in Barcelona, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Festival Wien Modern, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Roma, ORT Orchestra della Toscana, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Muenchen Biennale, Festival di Ravenna.

In 2011 she created the role of La stilista in the premiere of L’Italia del destino by Luca Mosca, staged at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where she performed a solo recital "Nuovo canzoniere popolare”,twenty new songs written for her voice by twenty Italian composers . “Nuovo canzoniere popolare” scored a great success in Milano and Turin for MiTo 2011.

In September 2011 she too part to the creation of Leggenda, a new opera by Alessandro Solbiati , at the Teatro regio di Torino; then she interpreted Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire and Berg Lirische Suite in Paris, Citè de la Musique and at the Opéra de Lille.

In 2012 she sang Poulenc La Voix Humaine in Palermo, and was acclaime in Verona where she sang Il suono giallo by Schnittke and Maderna's Il processo. She sang Pierrot Lunaire with Prazak Quartet for a european tour and in Hamburg ( September 2012) she sang a staged performance of Recital for Cathy by Luciano Berio Siete Canciones by Falla/Berio.

Among the 2013 highlights we can mention Berio Sequenza in a special concert in Milan Museo del Novecento di Milano, Berio Folksongs at Teatro Regio di Torino with Giananrdrea Noseda, Dido and Aeneas by Purcella and Berio Folksongs at the Teatro dell' Opera di Roma.

In 2014 she created the new opera by Mauro Montalbetti Il sogno di una cosa, in Milano, Brescia and Reggio Emilia. She also sang Poulenc La Voix Humaine in Ravenna, in a production that will be revived in Lucca and Piacenza.

In 2015 she will create Il suono giallo, a new opera by Alessandro Solbiati, a new production of Bologna’s Teatro Comunale.

Alda Caiello sings very often Luciano Berio's Folk Songs: in Milano conducted by Berio himself, in Rotterdam conducted by Valerij Gergiev, and at Vienna's Musikverein with the Kontrapunkte Ensemble conducted by Peter Keuschnig. Moreover, she played the main role in Berio's Passaggio at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, directed by Daniele Abbado. The Niewe Ensemble invited her to sing compositions by Berio in Utrecht and Maastricht. She took part in the Festival of Amsterdam and Utrecht with the Atlas Ensemble.

Alda Caiello was chosen by Adriano Guarnieri for the world première of Medea at Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, sang in the world première of La Passione secondo Matteo at Teatro La Scala in Milano and, for the Centenary celebration of Venezia’s La Biennale, performed Quare Tristis. She is now one of the main characters of the world première of La Pietra di diaspro at Teatro dell'Opera in Roma, at Teatro Nazionale and at Ravenna Festival 2007 (director Cristina Mazzavillani Muti). With the Icarus Ensemble she sang the main role in the world première of Adriano Guarnieri's Tenebrae, at the Ravenna Festival in June 2010, then revived at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in October 2010.

She interpreted Marco di Bari’s Camera Obscura, Luigi Nono’s Io, frammento di Prometeo (recorded by RAI Radio SAT), Bussotti’s Rara Requiem and Kancheli’s Exil with the Ensemble Alter Ego. She has been invited by Umbria Jazz for Treemonisha by Scott Joplin. She interpreted Giorgio Gaslini's and Battista Lena's scores; and has been invited by jazz festivals such as the Saalfelden Festival, the Amiens Festival and the Roccella Festival. For Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and for Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia she interpreted works by Manzoni, Henze’s Novae de infinito laudes, Stravinskij’s Les Noces, Luca Lombardi’s Vanitas and Ligeti’s Requiem, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.

At Paris’ Festival d’Automne she played the main role in Perseo e Andromeda by Sciarrino, in Barcelona she sang compositions by Ivan Fedele, in London she was invited at the Wigmore Hall for a recital devoted to Dallapiccola, Malipiero, Wolf Ferrari and Pizzetti. In Firenze, with the Orchestra della Toscana, she sang Lucrezio: oratorio materialistico by Luca Lombardi. With the duo Canino-Ballista, she was invited at the celebrations for Dallapiccola in Torino, Firenze and Lisboa. She has often performed Francesco Pennisi's chamber music. In Roma, for the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Alda Caiello took part in the Progetto Pollini with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor conducted by Erwin Ortner singing Trame d’ombre by Giacomo Manzoni.

At Bolzano’s Teatro Comunale, she sang in the world première of the opera Axel Brüchke Langer. A Composed Portrait by Giovanni Verrando. Moreover, she interpreted Maderna’s Satyricon for Mittelfest at Cividale del Friuli. In Rovigo, she was “La cantante vagneriana” in the opera Anton by Emilio Scogna, conducted by the author.

She recorded musics by Fabio Vacchi for the sound track of Ermanno Olmi's film Cantando dietro i paraventi. For Settembre Musica, with the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, she sang Improvisation I and Improvisation II by Boulez (conductor Marcello Panni) and works by Castiglioni and Bosco (conductor Arturo Tamayo). In September 2006 she sang Cantus planus by Castiglioni at Milano Musica and Le Marteau sans maître by Boulez at Bologna Festival. For Rome Festival Scelsi she performed Khoom and she sang Dallapiccola’s Commiato with the Contemporartensemble in Florence.

At the Holland Festival Alda Caiello interpreted Gesualdo, considered as a murderer by Luca Francesconi, with the Hilliard Ensemble, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, perforemd in Milano as welll for the Festival MI.TO 2008 . In 2005, in Milano, she sang in the Italian première of America by Thomas Adés.

She was invited for concerts in Strasbourg and Dresden by the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, with a program including compositions by Kurtag, Francesconi and Solbiati. Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova invited her, for the Concerto celebrativo, to sing transcriptions of Beatles songs, conducted by Christopher Franklin. At Muenchen Biennale 2006, she interpreted the world première of Edoardo Cattaneo’s La Philosophie dans le Labyrinth, with texts by E. Sanguineti, which was later performed also at Wien Modern Festival in 2007. Moreover, she sang at the European première of Twice through hearth by M.A. Turnage, with the Ensemble Kontrapunkte, at the Musikverein in Wien, where she has recently returned to interpret Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (chamber version), with Emilio Pomarico and the Klangforum. At Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2007 she sang in a concert devoted to Ivan Fedele. The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia invited Alda Caiello to sing pieces by Clementi, Petrassi and Dallapiccola. At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice she took part in the creation of Signor Goldoni by Luca Mosca, direction of David Livermoore and by the same author she was interpreter in Freud, Freud, I love you, with the Lieder by Alma Mahler.

She sung the world premiere of Manzoni’s La Legge in the presence of the author, in October 2007, at the Venice Biennale. In November 2007 she returned at the Musikverein for Wien Modern in two different concerts: the first performance of Kosmoi by Pierluigi Billone with the Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien conducted by Stephen Ausbury and the first Austrian performance of Recital for Cathy by Luciano Berio with the Ensemble Kontrapunkte. In February 2008 for the Stagione Universitaria dei Concerti she presented a concert in Rome dedicated to Dallapiccola and Carter, and at the Mozart Festival of A Coruña she presented a series of concerts devoted to Shostakovich and Mosca and at the Festival Florilegio di Salamanca she sang Berio’s Folksongs. Alda Caiello performed the cycle Harawi by Olivier Messiaen, during the centenary of the birth of the composer, at the Spoleto Festival, and she then inaugurated the Alicante Festival interpreting De Pablo's music.

Alda Caiello has recorded for BMG/Ricordi, CAM, Stradivarius, Rai Trade, Col Legno, Zig Zag Territoires. Soon there will be issued two CD on Casella, Respighi, Pizzetti e Ghedini, edited by Bottega Discantica.