Ilaria Alida Quilico
Ilaria Alida Quilico was born in Aosta on 3 May 1995. From 2016 she studied at the Conservatorio di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, graduating in 2019 with top grades and excellence, and the same year she entered the AMO Academy at the Teatro Coccia in Novara. In 2021 she attended the Accademia Mascagni at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno. She attended the Academy of Excellence of the Teatro di Parma studying and improving under the direction of Federico Longhi.
Ilaria Alida Quilico participated in numerous master classes in opera singing with international artists and personalities such as Barbara Frittoli, Donato Renzetti, Luisa Castellani, Giovanna Lomazzi, Alberto Gazale, Renata Lamanda. In 2016 at the European Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Montepulciano she took part in a summer masterclass led by soprano Edda Moser, eventually winning a grant.
In 2019 she won third prize at the G. Verdi Conservatory Competition in Milan, second prize at the National Art Competition held in Cesena, and first prize at the I International Mario Orlandoni Lyric Canto Competition in Como. In 2022 she won the Maurizio Graziani grant.
In November 2019 she voiced the character Maguelonne in Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon in Ente del Luglio Musicale Trapanese in a film production with the Teatro Coccia, where it was presented in December the same year and resumed in 2022 at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. In July 2020 she made her debut as Bertha in G. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, staged by the Teatro di Coccia. In July 2021 she performed in Jerusalem and made her debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma in Un Rave in Maschera.
In late 2022 she made her debut at the Teatro Opera Giocosa in Savona under the direction Maestro Giovanni Di Stefano in the New Year concert, and in early 2023 she sang with Musicians of Parma at the Teatro Nuovo in Salsomaggiore and at the Teatro Guglielmi in Massa.
She sang the part of Ines and Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi's Troubadour at the Verdi Festival 2022.