Sonia Prina

Sonia Prina (born 30 November 1975) is an Italian operatic contralto who has had an active career in concerts and operas since the mid-1990s.

She has recorded works by composers George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi.

Some of the roles she has performed are Amastre in Serse, Bradamante in Alcina, Carilda in Arianna in Creta, Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, Ottone in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Penelope in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Polinesso in Ariodante, Valentiniano in Ezio, and the title roles in Orlando, Ottone in villa, Partenope, Rinaldo, Tamerlano, and Tolomeo.

[1] In 2006 she performed Cornelia in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with Andreas Scholl in the title role.

[2] In 2010 she appeared in the title role of Vivaldi's Orlando furioso at the Oper Frankfurt, conducted by Andrea Marcon, the mad Roland staged as an Italo-Rocker by David Bösch.