Italian mezzo-soprano Martina Belli studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and in 2014 she won Second Prize in the Concorso Etta Limiti in Milano. Her operatic appearances include her Royal Opera House debut in 2015 under M° Pappano as Lola (Cavalleria rusticana), Tancredi (Isaura) at Palau des Art Reina Sofia under M° Abbado, Melanto (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) at Paris’s Cîté de la Musique/Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Smeton (Anna Bolena) at Teatro la Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Parma, Federica (Luisa Miller) at Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Festival Verdi in Parma under M° Abbado, Carmen in Ravenna and Teatro Regio di Torino, Gemma in the stage premiere of Tutino’s Miseria e Nobiltà for Teatro Carlo Felice (Genova), Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri) at Teatro Regio di Torino and Maddalena (Rigoletto) at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Macerata Festival, Concertgebouw, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, under M° Daniele Gatti. Belli has toured Europe in concert under M° Biondi, in repertory including Vivaldi’s L’Oracolo in Messenia, Gloria and Salve regina, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Caldara’s Morte e sepoltura di Cristo. Also in her symphonic/chamber repertoire is Verdi’s Requiem (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, under M° Riccardo Muti). She recorded Händel’s Lucio Cornelio Silla (Claudio) with Europa Galante, con. M° Biondi, live in Vienna (Glossa).