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Alessia Vitali is an Italian-Canadian Soprano from Montréal, Québec, praised for her “dedication to character and spine-tingling freedom” (Emerging Artist Reviews). A versatile singing actress, she recently made her role debut as Cendrillon in Massenet's Cendrillon at the Miami Music Festival under the guidance of Manuel Pérez. Her growing soprano repertoire builds on an already diverse operatic career spanning lyric, dramatic, and contemporary works.

Alessia recently completed her second season as a member of Calgary Opera's McPhee Artist Development Program, where she appeared as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, performed the dual roles of Mother and Grandmother in Little Red Riding Hood, and covered Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. During her first season, she made her Calgary Opera mainstage debut as La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, sang the title role in The Witty Squirrel, and completed a role study of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.

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Career highlights include Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Miles in Britten's The Turn of the Screw, Mercédès in Bizet's Carmen, Magdalena in Verdi's Rigoletto, Ma Moss in Copland's The Tender Land, Signora Guidotti in Nino Rota's I due Timidi, and the title role in Handel's Serse. In the Canadian premiere of Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park, she covered the role of Fanny Price and premiered new works by Canadian composers.

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Concert appearances include alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the North York Concert Orchestra. She has also performed in the world premiere of The Handmaid's Tale at the Banff Centre.

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Alessia holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Elizabeth McDonald. She is the recipient of the Sandra H. Opera Scholarship and the ARIAS Selma & Bruno Zlemit Scholarship.

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She has participated in masterclasses with Susan Graham, Denyce Graves, Joyce El-Khoury, Emily D'Angelo, and Manuel Pérez, and has trained with the Miami Music Festival, NYU, Orford Music Academy, the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy, Long Reach Opera, and the Against the Grain National Opera Intensive.