Elisa De Toffol
Specializing in Baroque and 20th-century repertoire, Elisa De Toffol, mezzo-soprano, was born in Monza and currently resides in the Netherlands. Here she graduated with a master’s degree in baroque singing from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and has performed as a soloist at the most important festivals of early and contemporary music: the Festival Dag in de Branding in Den Haag, the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht, the Opera Forward Festival in Amsterdam, the Opera Festival in Rotterdam, and the Grachten festival in Amsterdam. She previously obtained her diploma in opera singing at the Brescia Conservatory in conjunction with her piano studies.
Among her notable performances: Woe to the Frosty Monsters by Luigi Nono (Times Spans Festival 2023, New York, with SWR Experimental Studio (with an article published in the NY Times; previously performed at Salzburger Festspiele 2021 with Klangforum Wien and Sylvain Cambreling); the opera The Devils of Loudun by K. Penderecky, as one of the Ursuline nuns, conducted by Vladimir Jurowsky and Simon Stone, on the stage of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (2022-’23); her performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna during the Dutch television program Podium Witteman, which was awarded best performance in the “melancholy” category of 2019.