Daniela Barcellona was born in Trieste where she did her musical studies with Alessandro Vitiello. After winning several international competitions a major career breakthrough happened at the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro in summer 1999. Her unqualified success in the title role of Rossini’s Tancredi catapulted her into international stardom and led to invitations to sing at the major opera houses worldwide. Her mastery of the florid mezzo bel-canto repertory is complemented by acclaim in selected French repertory and gala performances of the Verdi Requiem. Added to her already-full calendar of stage and opera performances will be several recording projects spread over upcoming seasons.

In Italy she sang in Milan (Teatro alla Scala: Lucrezia Borgia, Iphigenie in Aulide, Europa riconosciuta, Rinaldo, Viaggio a Reims, Concerts - Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi: Verdi’s Requiem), Pesaro (Rossini Opera Festival: Tancredi, Donna del lago, Semiramide, Bianca e Falliero, Adelaide di Borgogna, Maometto II, Sigismondo, Concerts) Verona (Teatro Filarmonico: Italiana in Algeri), (Arena di Verona: Verdi’s Requiem), Genova (Teatro Carlo Felice: Cenerentola, La Favorite), Florence (Teatro Comunale: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tancredi, Orfeo, Italiana in Algeri), Torino (Teatro Regio: Anna Bolena), Trieste (Teatro Verdi: Mayr’s Ginevra di Scozia, Tancredi), Rome (Teatro dell’Opera: Italiana in Algeri, Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Fiamma, L’italiana in Algeri, Tancredi, Semiramide; Accademia di Santa Cecilia: Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe, Concerts), Parma (Teatro Regio: Norma, Verdi’s Requiem), Palermo (Teatro Massimo: Stabat Mater), Naples (Teatro San Carlo: Anna Bolena), Jesi (Teatro Pergolesi: Orfeo), Bologna (Teatro Comunale: Haendel’s Giulio Cesare).

Outside Italy she has appeared in New York (Metropolitan of New York, Opening Gala, Norma), Berlin (Philarmonic Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem, Concerts), Salzburg Festival (Donna del lago, Verdi’s Requiem, Romeo and Julia, Capuleti e Montecchi), Paris (Opera de Paris, Capuleti e Montecchi, Donna del lago), Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper, Italiana in Algeri), Wien (Staatsoper, Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Madrid (Teatro Real, Semiramide, Tancredi, Rakes’s Progress, Concert), Geneve (Grand Theatre, Semiramide), Marseille Opera (Tancredi), Las Palmas (Teatro Perez Galdås, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Capuleti e Montecchi, La favorite), Festival Radio France Montpellier (Donna del lago), Amsterdam (Concertgebow, Puccini’s Trittico, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis), Dresden (Verdi’s Requiem, La Favorite), London (Berlioz’s Romeo and Julia,Verdi’s Requiem), Bordeaux (La sensitive), Oviedo (Italiana in Algeri), Liege and Bruxelles (Donna del lago), Corinto (Assedio di Corinto), Istambul Festival (Vivaldi’s Bajazet), Dresden (Verdi’s Requiem), San Sebastian (Quincena Musical, Donna del lago, Recital), Oviedo (Tancredi), Barcelona Liceo (Semiramide), Bilbao (Capuleti e Montecchi), Seville (Tancredi), Tokio (Recitals, Bajazet, Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Valencia (Suor Angelica, Les Troyens, Aida), Tel Aviv (Norma).

She sang under such prominent conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, Riccardo Chailly, Myun-Whun Chung, Wolfganfg Sawallisch, Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Bertrand de Billy, Marcello Viotti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Georges Pretre, Carlo Rizzi, Alberto Zedda, Fabio Biondi, Bruno Campanella, Michele Mariotti, Donato Renzetti.

Future engagements include Milan, New York, London, Munich, Turin, Pesaro, Bilbao, Bologna, Houston.