Simona
Mango was born in Bern and grew up in Naples as a Swiss and Italian
national and as a German and Italian native speaker. She also speaks
French and English and is studying Russian and Spanish.
She
studied classical singing in Rome with Amedea Nogas-Perrino, Margaret
Baker-Genovesi and Doris Andrews. From 2001 to 2003 she attended all
semestrial mastercourses at the Ateneo Internazionale della Lirica
(Sulmona) with Margaret Baker-Genovesi, Dario Lucantoni (Conductor)
and Italo Nunziata (Stage director). In 2004 she attended Sergio Segalini's
mastercourse at the Accademia di Arte Lirica (Osimo). She also took
part in masterclasses with Gabriella Tucci and Mirella Freni and had
the privilege of perfecting her art with Luciana Serra.
She performed the roles of Suzuki (Madama Butterfly, Rome, Palazzo
Barberini, May 2000), L'Ostessa (first performance of Il Miracolo
del Corporale by Alberico Vitalini Savona, Conductor Piero Gallo,
November 2001), Rosalia (West Side Story, Tivoli, Festival Euro-Mediterraneo,
Conductor Boris Brott, July 2002), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice by C.
W. Gluck, Mannheim, Musikhochschule, October 2003), La Madre Superiora
(Mese Mariano by U. Giordano, Osimo, Teatro La Nuova Fenice, May 2004),
Fenena (Nabucco, Sulmona, Teatro Maria Caniglia, March 2005), Marta
and Pantalis (Mefistofele, Chieti, Teatro Marrucino, April 2005),
Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana, Conductor H. Yoshida, Rome, May 2005),
Dorabella (Così fan Tutte, Rome, Teatro Don Bosco, April 2006),
L'Opinion Publique (Orphée aux Enfers, Biel - Solothurn, Switzerland,
January - May 2007).
Her concert career, which in the last few years became the most important
part of her activity, began in 1996 and includes oratorio, Liederabend
and opera recital.
In July 2002 she was awarded the 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the
"C. A. Seghizzi" International Chamber-music competition
in Gorizia with pianist Leonardo Angelini.
She sang amongst other things in staged concerts of Banchieri: Il
Festino del Giovedì Grasso (Chieti, Teatro Marrucino, February
2003), in a Mozart-Requiem tour in Sardinia (Conductor Massimo Pradella,
July 2004), in many Porgy and Bess and West Side Story - Concerts
in Abruzzo with the Quartetto Accademia (December 2004 - June 2006),
she gave a recital at the Festival Pianistico di Spoleto with pianist
Filippo Belloni (May 2006), performed Mozart's C-minor Mass (Conductor
Claudio Micheli, Rome, June 2006), sang Bacalov's Misa Tango in Porto
and Famalicão (Conductor Ernst Schelle, May 2008), Haydn's
Theresien-Messe and Vivaldi's Magnificat (Bern and Solothurn, Capriccio
Basel, Conductor W. Derungs, May 2008). In July 2009 she gave two
concerts with bass Kazuhiro Kotetsu and pianist Kayo Yamaguchi at
Alba Music Festival. From June 2007 onwards she gave many recitals
with
pianist Hansjürg Kuhn, with whom she also recorded the live album
"Sogno d'amore (Müller & Schade, Bern). In 2009 she
started appearing with guitarist Bruce Reynolds, and in 2010 with
pianist Irène Hirt.
In 2003 she took up teaching singing, which she continues today with
great dedication.
