The Sicilian Opera Choir of Italy, winner of the International Opera Awards in 2017, is a reality that has established itself in the music, theatre, opera, and symphonic scene over the past few years.
The particular care of vocality and taste as well as the versatility of the organic components, allow the choir to face both the refined and demanding symphonic and sacred repertoire along with the robust traditional lyric collection.
Made up of choir artists from all over Sicily, the Sicilian Opera Choir performs concerts, shows, and operas with excellent public and critical success and is regularly enrolled in theatres at the national and international level. The intense concert activity is combined with culture making it a powerful work of research, enhancement, and export of Sicilian art which has been undertaken within the country and beyond as well as rediscovery of the most important Sicilian authors with the execution of lesser-known works and unpublished works by P. Mandanici, P. Vinci, G. Pacini, V. Moscuzza, FP Neglia, A. Pepoli (“Mercedes” work made in the world premiere), V. Bellini (in particular “Zaira” with the extraordinary participation of some interpreters of the original cast of the world premiere of 1976, and some sacred works of the Bellini youth period: The pastoral litanies to the Virgin; the Tantum ergo and parents, etc). Di Zaira edited the philological version for the “Bellini Festival” presented in Catania at the Greek Roman Theater in September 2012.