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Debut as Amenaide in Rossini’s Tancredi at Oper Frankfurt – Press Reviews

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Tancredi – Amenaide, Oper Frankfurt · September 2025

Bianca Tognocchi made her debut as Amenaide in Rossini’s Tancredi at Oper Frankfurt, in a role combining demanding bel canto virtuosity with considerable dramatic intensity. Her performance received praise for its vocal agility, expressive depth, rich and focused soprano, and compelling stage presence.

Bianca Tognocchi as Amenaide lying on the stage floor in Rossini’s Tancredi at Oper Frankfurt

Press Reviews

“Bianca Tognocchi possesses a silky lyrical soprano, distinguished by a generously developed middle register and an especially attractive vocal color. She masters the role’s virtuosic coloratura with confidence and approaches even the notes above high C with complete assurance.”

Opera Slovakia

“Bianca Tognocchi is an ideal Amenaide, captivating with her radiant soprano and powerful dramatic intensity. Particular highlights include her Act II cavatina, lamenting her fate in prison, and the great prayer aria, where she pleads with God to protect Tancredi in his fight to prove her innocence. Throughout these scenes, Tognocchi brings the heroine’s inner conflict vividly to life with remarkable emotional depth.”

Online Musik Magazin

“As Amenaide, Bianca Tognocchi formed the lyrical counterpart with a bright, beautifully focused soprano, mastering the role’s demanding coloratura with effortless assurance while displaying remarkable vocal richness and opulence.”

Magazin Klassik

“The duets between Tancredi and Amenaide emerged as one of the musical highlights of the entire Oper Frankfurt season. As Amenaide, Italian soprano Bianca Tognocchi delivered an impressive performance, mastering Rossini’s bel canto with apparent ease and moving with remarkable finesse from the opera’s radiant major-key passages to the darker atmosphere of the prison aria, before returning seamlessly to the music’s luminous brilliance.”

Faustkultur.de

Bianca Tognocchi as Amenaide chained to a radiator in the prison scene of Rossini’s Tancredi at Oper Frankfurt
Bianca Tognocchi as Amenaide in a duet scene from Rossini’s Tancredi at Oper Frankfurt

“Bianca Tognocchi portrayed a touching Amenaide, providing a clear lyrical counterpart to her stage partner. She handled the role’s virtuosic coloratura with remarkable ease, revealing a voice that is sure to grow even richer and fuller with time.”

OperaJournal.cz

“Bianca Tognocchi is a magnificent Amenaide, delivering a performance of remarkable dramatic intensity.”

Online Musik Magazin

“Bianca Tognocchi shines as Amenaide with effortless vocal agility. Her upper register is clear and unforced, while her coloratura flows with remarkable ease and naturalness. Though bright in timbre, her soprano possesses ample warmth, body and projection, allowing it to carry effortlessly through ensembles and over the chorus.”

Der Opernfreund

“Special mention must go to Bianca Tognocchi as Amenaide. With her expressive, technically brilliant soprano, she infused the drama with vitality, temperament and emotional depth. Every aria and duet became a celebration of vocal beauty, virtuosic coloratura and an extraordinary palette of vocal colors. Her natural stage presence and charisma were equally impressive.”

Textor.online

“Most impressive was the way the singers transformed Rossini’s demanding coloratura and scales into genuine vocal expression rather than mere technical brilliance. As Amenaide, Bianca Tognocchi’s singing is graceful and vibrant, with flowing, long-drawn scales and subtle intensity.”

Die Deutsche Bühne

Bianca Tognocchi as Amenaide crouching against the wall in Rossini’s Tancredi at Oper Frankfurt

“Bianca Tognocchi possesses the vocal agility Rossini demands, captivating both dramatically and musically with a thoroughly engaging performance. She brings striking intensity to Amenaide’s defiance of her forced marriage, while lending the heroine’s duet with her beloved an irresistible emotional tension.”

Oper Magazin

“Endowed with an agile and bright voice with extreme ease in the higher register, Tognocchi’s voice also possesses warmth and great beauty. In the dramatic scenes – and they are plentiful – Tognocchi’s warmth gave a certain gravitas to the tragic role. Amenaide is no chirping nightingale but rather a tragic heroine who happens also to be a coloratura. Thanks to her expressiveness, her Act I aria ‘Come dolce all’alma mia’ was truly moving, not merely an exercise in ornamentation.”

Concertonet

“It is striking how Bianca Tognocchi gives each demanding bel canto role she portrays its own distinct identity. In this deliberately rustic setting, her soprano remains naturally aristocratic and deeply authentic. As is so often the case in Rossini, the vocal lines leading to the high notes matter even more than the high notes themselves. Tognocchi’s deeply moving singing ultimately reconciles the audience with the production’s less convincing direction.”

Opern.News

“Special mention must go to Bianca Tognocchi as Amenaide. An outstanding soprano, she brought remarkable vitality, temperament and momentum to a largely static staging. Every solo aria and duet became a celebration of vocal beauty, virtuosic coloratura and an extraordinary palette of vocal colors. Her natural stage presence and impressive charisma brought the drama vividly to life.”

H. Boscaiolo

“Bianca Tognocchi captivated with her exceptionally rich-toned young soprano, effortlessly illuminating every nuance of Amenaide’s hope, melancholy and despair through deeply sensitive, expressive singing. Together, the two singers forged a profoundly moving partnership, their vibrant young voices and compelling stage personalities blending with remarkable empathy. Like twin sisters, their mutual sensitivity and respect created an unforgettable listening experience, revealing the emotional depth of Rossini’s early opera with extraordinary immediacy.”

Opera Online

“As Amenaide, Bianca Tognocchi rises fearlessly to the role’s demanding high notes, delivering them with complete assurance and precision.”

Frankfurter Rundschau