Following her victory at the International Giuseppe di Stefano
Competition in Trapani in 1998, Daniela Schillaci received offers from
numerous opera houses. The same year she made her debut at the theatre
in Savona in the opera Cosм fan tutte and at
the theatre in Spoleto in the opera Werther. Has
performed at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and the Teatro
Massimo Bellini in Catania (as Oscar in the opera
Un ballo in maschera), the Opera di Roma,
the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, the Teatro Verdi di Trieste, theatres
in Dusseldorf and Essen and at the Puccini Opera Festival
in Torre del Lago (as Musetta in La Bohиme).
The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Nannetta in
Falstaff, Lisa in La sonnambula (theatres
in Palermo, Messina and Rome), Aida in the eponymous opera
(the theatre in Taormina), Violetta in La traviata
(during the Luglio Musicale Trapanese festival), Elisetta
in Il matrimonio segreto, Serpina in La serva
padrona and Papagena in Die Zauberflцte.
Daniela Schillaci has performed lead roles in Nino Rota’s musical
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at theatres in Messina and
Florence and Puccini’s Turandot in Seoul. In Messina she
appeared in a new production of Verdi’s I Lombardi (conducted
by Roberto Abbado), while in Catania she performed in Menotti’s opera
Il telefono. Has appeared at the opera di Roma
in the opera Elektra (conducted by Seiji Osawa) and
Carmen (conducted by Alain Lombard).
In October 2010 she took part in a gala concert at the Concert
Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre (conducted by Fabio Mastrangelo).
The same year she performed the role of Donna Elvira
(Don Giovanni) at the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and
Ballet Theatre.
Has worked with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Seiji Osawa, Gianluigi
Gelmetti, Daniel Oren, Gьnter Neuhold, Roberto Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Semyon
Bychkov and Alain Lombard. Has worked with stage directors including Pierre
Luigi Pizzi, Jonathan Miller, Robert Carsen, Filippo Crivelli and Pier'Alli.