Simona
Genga

Simona Genga

Named one of the CBC's "30 hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30” Mezzo Soprano Simona Genga, is an "exceptional and rare voice" known for "her vocal plushness, amplitude and range which are mature beyond her years" (Ludwig Van/ Opera Canada). Simona is a recent graduate of the Canadian Opera Company's Studio Ensemble program after winning First Prize and Audience Choice Award at the COC Centre Stage Competition.

Media

Video

Liber Scriptus

Verdi's Requiem

Video

Sgombra è la sacra selva... Deh! Proteggi mi, O Dio!

Adalgisa's Aria from Bellini's Norma

Video

In sì barbara sciagura

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Career Highlights/Education

Merola Opera Program

Fellow, Bianca, The Rape of Lucreta (2023), 2023

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Gerdine Young Artist, 2017-2018

Currently Performing

Ninth Symphony

Alto Soloist

Orchestre Philharmonique et choeur des mélomanes

Management

Dean Artists Management, Toronto, ON, Canada

Morgan Reid

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Schedule

Upcoming Engagements

Schwabacher Debut Recital

Soloist

San Francisco Opera

Recent Highlights

Rigoletto

Giovanna

The Santa Fe Opera

Die Walküre

Roßweiße

The Santa Fe Opera

Médée

Néris

Canadian Opera Company

Pomegranate

Livia/Maria

Canadian Opera Company

Metamorphosis Recital

Soloist

Merola Opera Program

The Rape of Lucretia

Bianca

Merola Opera Program

Grande Finale

Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Magda (Die Meistersinger), Zarzuela Solo

Merola Opera Program

Ninth Symphony

Alto Soloist

Orchestre Philharmonique et choeur des mélomanes

Messiah

Alto Soloist

Victoria Symphony

Fantasma

Ms. Palladino

Canadian Opera Company

Carmen

Performer

Saskatoon Opera

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Alto Soloist

BROTTOPERA

Eugene Onegin

Olga

Highlands Opera Studio

Gala Concert

Alto

National Arts Centre (Centre National Des Arts)

Fantasma

Performer

Canadian Opera Company

Aida

High Priestess

Canadian Opera Company

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Berta

Canadian Opera Company

Elektra

Second Maid

Canadian Opera Company

Hänsel und Gretel

Gertrud

Canadian Opera Company

Gerdine Young Artist

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Voice Fellow

Mezzo Soprano

Ravinia Steans Music Institute

La Traviata

Annina

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Madama Butterfly

Suzuki

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

The Grapes of Wrath

Cabin Mistress/Chorus

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Carousel

Nettie Fowler

Chautauqua Institute

Biography

Resume

Italian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Simona Genga possesses an "exceptional and rare voice" known for its "vocal plushness, amplitude and range" (Ludwig van Toronto/Opera Canada). This season, Simona returns to the Canadian Opera Company as Giovanna in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and looks forward to concert engagements with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Handel’s Messiah), and Orchestra Toronto (Mahler’s Symphony No. 2). They look forward to making their Santa Fe Opera debut this summer as Giovanna in Verdi’s Rigoletto, alongside additional cover assignments, as a part of their prestigious Apprentice Artist program.

The past season saw Simona make various debuts on concert stages with the Victoria Symphony (Handel’s Messiah), Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœurs des Mélomanes (Beethoven’s Ninth), the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis), and Chorus Niagara (Verdi’s Requiem). They rounded out the 2023/2024 season with a return to San Francisco Opera for the Merola Opera Program, with assignments including Gounod’s Faust and Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia.

Genga was a 22/23 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition National Semi-Finalist after winning both the Great Lakes Region and Buffalo-Toronto District rounds. The season also included her debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) and joining San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, appearing as Bianca in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and in recital for Metamorphosis: Recovery, Renewal, and Rebirth where she “had the audience in her grip from her first masterly measures to the last” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Simona was honoured to have subsequently won the Schwabacher Recital Series prize, and was thrilled to appear in recital in February 2024.

Other recent engagements include the title role in Carmen for Saskatoon Opera, the premiere of Ian Cusson’s Fantasma with the Canadian Opera Company, Handel’s Messiah with the Peterborough Singers, Olga in Eugene Onegin for Highlands Opera Studio, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Brott Music Festival.

Press Quotes

"More treasures, perhaps the most memorable of all, came after intermission, when the commanding mezzo-soprano Simona Genga took the stage. In her three numbers — Jocelyn’s Morlock’s densely despairing “Somewhere Along the Line,” Schubert’s stormy “Die junge Nonne,” and Alma Mahler’s poignant “Die Stille Stadt,” with its shining image of a hymn-singing child — this remarkable young singer came across as a vocal artist fully formed. Her voice soared and scoured, murmured and raged, without ever losing its richly textured and seamless radiance. A supreme sense of the moment, delicately poised on the knife-edge of hauteur, added another dimension. Turing slightly sideways, she looked back at the audience to deliver an imperious, complicated slash of character. Genga had the audience in her grip from her first masterly measures to the last."

— San Francisco Classical Voice

"The two mezzo-soprano solos that topped the applause meter were Simona Genga’s lustrous offering from a late 19th century Spanish work by Ruperto Chapi and Natalie Lewis’ aria in bluesy colors from Richard Danielpour’s “Margaret Garner.”"

— Bay City News Foundation

"Simona Genga delivered a whirlwind of vocal power in a flamenco-tinged number from Ruperto Chapi’s 1889 zarzuela “Las hijas del Zebedeo.” "

— San Francisco Chronicle

"Simona offers rich colours in her voice and an onstage poise that belies her age, and she’s got the winning smile of a born stage-monster "

— The Globe and Mail