Eva Mei

Eva Mei (born 3 March 1967) is an Italian coloratura soprano.

Life and career Eva Mei was born on 3 March 1967 in Fabriano, Italy. She graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence in 1989. In 1990, at the Mozart Competition in Vienna, she won the Catarina Cavalieri Prize for her interpretation of Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, an award which led to a contract with the Vienna State Opera where she performed later that same year.

Mei has performed the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Zurich Opera and the Dutch National Opera. She made her debut at the Hungarian State Opera House as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, and her first performance at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa was as Musetta in La bohème. At the Berlin State Opera she performed the role of Violetta in La traviata, and at the Bavarian State Opera she portrayed Norina in Don Pasquale.

In February 2011, she sang the part of Pamina in a new production of The Magic Flute premiered at the Vorarlberger Landestheater.

She has worked with the conductors Roberto Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Zubin Mehta.

Mei's discography includes the operas Don Pasquale, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, Tancredi, and Il re pastore. She has also recorded arias by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. He concert repertoire recordings include Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Handel's cantatas, and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.

Recordings Thaïs by Massenet: Eva Mei, Michele Pertusi. La Fenice, Venice (2004) (video)