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Valeria started her career as a performer (singer and actress) in Italy, while studying Piano accompaniment and Opera Studies (BA) at the local Conservatoire where she studied classical piano, classical singing, jazz singing and musical theatre. She graduated in 2016 and her thesis Fratellanza a teatro (a work on the role of Mantova's main opera theatre in the musical and historical events of the Italian Risorgimento) won an award for best dissertation, and was subsequently published by LIM.


She graduated in 2018 from Royal Academy of Music, Musical Theatre MA for which she received the DipRAM award for Outstanding Performance. Since then, she has been performing both on stage and on screen in London and internationally for amongst others the Barbican Centre, BBC, Channel 4, Abbey Road and BBC Radio.

Valeria holds a MSc in Music Psychology and Neuroscience (Goldsmiths University of London) and has been working for companies like BBC Sounds, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Music Tree.


In 2022 she completed a masters in Opera Directing with Verona Opera Academy, which allowed her to work with and learn from internationally recognised directors such as Lorenzo Mariani, Gianmaria Aliverta, William Orlandi, and more. 

Over the summer 2022 Valeria was assistant director for the Zeffirelli production of Turandot at the Arena di Verona Opera Festival, where she had the pleasure to work with world-renowned artists such as Anna Netrebko, Yusuf Eyvazov, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Oksana Dyka, Maria Teresa Leva, Ruth Iniesta, Riccardo Fassi, Carlo Bosi and more.


In 2022 she directed the first of Lucio Campiani’s operas, Alberto di Saviola, which had not been performed since 1848; in the same year she also directed a production of Lucia di Lammermoor for Instant Opera, which marked Valeria's directorial debut in the UK, and she has recently been invited back to directed their next production: La Traviata. 

In 2023 Valeria has been directing Verdi’s Macbeth at the Hoxton Hall for Uncovered Opera, and she is the current Artist in Residence at Brunel University, where she is researching and developing her creative practice in multisensory art and neurodiversity.

UPCOMING:  
- Suor Angelica for Opera Greenwich in August 2023
- La Boheme for Amick Productions tour in September 2023
- Aida for Guildford Opera in May 2024

Valeria is also an artist and curator working on multisensory synaesthetic immersive art and installations. Link to her work: www.thesynaesthesiaroom.com

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