Vittoria Yeo

Background

She was born in Seoul, South of Korea, where she started her musical studies and graduated in opera singing at the Seokyeong University in Seoul.

Career

She moved to Italy for continuing her training at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and finally with Raina Kabaivanska at the Istituto Musicale Vecchi-Tonelli in Modena. Following her appearances as Musetta in "Louisiana Bohème" and Gilda in "Rigoletto" in youth productions at the Teatro Regio in Parma and as Leonora "Il Trovatore" in a concert performance at the Sarzana Opera Festival, Vittoria Yeo made her debut as Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly" in 2013 at the theatres in Salsomaggiore Terme, Vigevano and Fiorenzuola d’Arda. She also sang her first Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti at the Ravenna Festival in 2013.

She made her role debuts as Fiordiligi in "Così fan tutte" and as Liù in "Turandot" in 2014.

In 2015, she made her Salzburg Festival debut by singing her first Elvira in Verdi"s "Ernani" (concert performance under the direction of Riccardo Muti). Vittoria Yeo has already performed extensively in concert, appearing with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Bulgarian National Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Parma.

She took part in ‘Pavarotti nel cuore’ in 2011, a concert marking the anniversary of the death of Luciano Pavarotti, and in 2013 she appeared in a bel canto concert at the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation. In 2014, along with other finalists of the Città di Busseto International Competition for Verdian Voices, she sang in a concert at the Teatro Regio in Parma, as well as in a celebration of Rolando Panerai"s 90th birthday at the Teatro Goldoni in Florence.

Achievements

• She has won a number of international singing competitions, including the Città di Magenta, the Città di Brescia and Louisiana Città Sonora, as well as the Ismaele Voltolini, the Magda Olivero, the Pietro Mongini and the Maria Malibran Competitions.