Giulia Laudano

British-Italian Giulia Laudano is a Zwischenfach who completed her studies at the prestigious Royal Academy Opera (RAO) School in 2021. She holds both an MA with Distinction and a BMus with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music.

Since completing her studies, Giulia has been working as the Italian Opera Language Coach at the Academy. Her expertise has extended to collaborations with English Touring Opera, where she coached singers in Donizetti's Lucia Borgia and Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims in 2023. She has been invited back to coach Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi in January 2025. Giulia also worked with The Sixteen on a recording of Italian madrigals. In 2024, she contributed her coaching skills at the Da Ponte Festival in Vittorio Veneto, focusing on Italian opera scenes, masterclasses, and Così fan tutte.

Recent roles include Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni (Dorset Opera Festival), Second Woman in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (RAO), Despina in Mozart's Cosí fan tutte (RAO), Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (RAO), Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (RAO), Nancy in Britten's Albert Herring, the False Boy in Kurt Weill's The Tsar has his Picture (UCL), and in scenes performances: Idamante (Idomeneo, Mozart), Sesto (Giulio Cesare, Handel), Dorabella (Cosí fan tutte, Mozart), Meg (Falstaff, Verdi), Third Lady (Magic Flute, Mozart), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) and Tesbe (La Cenerentola, Rossini).

Concert highlights include: Alto soloist in Haydn’s Stabat Mater and Bach’s Cantata 150 (St John’s Smith Square) with the English Baroque Choir; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in English with Buckingham Choral Society (St Peter and St Paul Parish Church); Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzer (Northcott Theatre Exeter) with the Exeter Philharmonic Choir. Giulia also performed a selection of songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Enfield Chamber Orchestra.