Biography

Cecilia Sala, born in Milan, approached the world of classical singing as soloist soprano of the vocal quartet “Santa Tecla” of Milan’s cathedral. Together with the diploma in baroque singing at the “Accademia Internazionale della Musica” (2008, prof. Roberto Balconi) she attended various masterclasses in Italy (with Sergio Foresti, Roberta Invernizzi) and Austria (Austria Barock Akademie). Pupil of the mezzo-soprano Bianca Maria Casoni, she performed as a soloist and with chamber choirs in several music festivals such as “XXVII Festival delle Nazioni di Città di Castello“, le “Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore” and “Suoni entro le mura”. With the ensemble “Il Canto di Orfeo” she recorded music of Giacomo Carissimi and Antonio Vivaldi. In 2008 she moved to Berlin, where she studied with Birgit Wagner and Sibylle Fischer and works as a soloist. In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2018 she gave a recital at the Mozarthaus (Mozart House) in Augsburg with the pianist Stephanie Knauer. Since 2010 she´s been an Italian language coach for operas: she already worked with the Musikfestspiele Potsdam for the baroque Opera “Calandro“ by Ristori and for the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg for Puccini’s “Tosca”. Between 2012 and 2017 she worked as Italian teacher at the „Carl Maria von Weber“ conservatory in Dresden and in 2017 she was lecturer for “Italian for the Opera” classes at the Udk Berlin. In 2018 she worked as a prompter for Sciarrino´s “Luci mie traditrici” for the Theater Lübeck. In addition to that she works as a translator for musicology and singing teacher in Berlin and is a voice therapist.

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Press

“The performance was excellent but the best, with the conductor, was the charming and melodious voice of the soprano soloist, which was highly appreciated by the public”.
Paolo Rossi, R.A.I. Auditing s.a.s

“Both affects, the merry and the tragic, expressed from Cecilia Sala with an instrumental and crystalline voice, differentiating the styles without forcing the contrast in an almost romantic way.”
Claus Lamey, Ausgburger Allgemeine

“Cecilia Sala contained her voice in a delicate ‘mezza voce’,  increasing yet the expressive intensity in any direction, from carefree irony to the deepest pain. ‘She never told her love’ was particularly moving.”
Claus Lamey, Ausgburger Allgemeine

“Cecilia Sala presented herself with a remarkable vocal brilliance, an agile temperament and the charming charisma of a born “Opera-buffa”  interpreter.”
Claus Lamey, Ausgburger Allgemeine

“His aria” Komm in mein Herzenshaus ” offered Cecilia Sala the possibility to unfold the brilliance of her voice. Flexibility, sober yet luminous coloraturas, sensitive emphasis on the text and a subtle expression of the affects shaped the singing “.
Thomas Janssen, Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung

“Cecilia Sala showed again musical brilliance in both pieces, using pointed coloraturas and subtle color shades “.
Thomas Janssen, Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung

Concert Programs

Programs with fortepiano with Stephanie Knauer

Freemasons and Revolutionaries- Songs and arias by Gluck, Mozart and Haydn. Duration: 70 Minutes

Le dimore amor non ama- Songs and arias by  Haydn and  Giuliani. Duration: 70 Minutes

Peace Celebration– Sacred odes, songs and arias by C.P.E. Bach and  Mozart. Duration: 70 Minutes

Programs with ensemble

Laudate Dominum- Sacred and secular music from Renaissance to Classicism. Duration: 60 Minutes
Instrumentation: organ, trombone, soprano

Alma redemptoris mater- Concert  for Soprano, Trombone and Organ. Duration: 60 Minutes
Instrumentation: organ, trombone, soprano

Programs with organ

Luther’s Reflections- Music of the Reformation Era. Duration: 60 Minutes

Programs with organ and cembalo

Spanish splendour- Secular baroque songs and cantatas from Spain, Portugal and South America. Duration: 60 minutes

Stabat Mater- Works by Pergolesi, Sances and others for Passiontide. Duration: 60 minutes

Sì dolce è’l tormento– Sacred and secular Italian Renaissance and Baroque songs. Duration: 60 minutes

The Prayer- sacred songs and arias by Handel, Bach and Mozart. Duration: 60 minutes

Programs with guitar with Carmine Puca

On request

It is possible to book us for a house concert