Mirjam Tola

Mirjam Tola is an Albanian operatic soprano and voice teacher. She is also an Austrian citizen.

Life Born in Tirana in 1972, Tola studied singing at the University of Arts Tirana with from 1991 and graduated with distinction in 1994. In Tirana she had her opera debut in the female title role in Bastien und Bastienne. From 1997 she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Los Angeles in 2001. At the Vienna State Opera she was awarded a sponsorship prize at the ceremony.

From 2004 to 2006 Tola was engaged at the Ljubljana Opera House. Guest appearances took her to the Berlin State Opera, and from 2007 to the Teatro Verdi in Trieste , and from 2010 to 2012 she was engaged as an ensemble member at the Hamburg State Opera, where she subsequently continued to appear as a guest. Further engagements took her to the Staatstheater Meiningen, the Wuppertal Opera House, the Staatstheater Kassel, the Essen Aalto Theater, the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia

Tola has worked with conductors such as Anton Guadagno, Nello Santi, Simone Young, Karen Kamensek, Massimo Zanetti, Will Humburg, Peter Schneider, Markus Poschner and .

Repertoire (selection) Puccini: title role in Tosca, title role in Suor Angelica, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Liù in Turandot Verdi: Desdemona in Otello, Elisabeth in Don Carlos, Leonora Mozart: Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Bastienne in Bastien und Bastienne Giordano: Maddalena in Andrea Chénier Bellini: Adalgisa in Norma Leoncavallo: Nedda in Pagliacci Tchaikovsky: Tatjana in Eugene Onegin Brecht/Weill: Anna in The Seven Deadly Sins Prokofiev: Fata Morgana in The Love for Three Oranges Bizet: Micaëla in Carmen Rossini: Zaida in Il turco in Italia References