Soprano Vannina Santoni began her career singing Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in Italy and then at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. Since then she has sung a great many roles:

Mimì (La bohème) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Opéra de Lille and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (CD with Les Siècles); Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Opéra national du Rhin; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Opéra de Paris, the Zurich Opera House, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Grand Théâtre de Tours; Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Liù (Turandot) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Donna Anna and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at Oper Köln, the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Paris; Juliette (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette) at La Scala, Milan, and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre; Violetta Valéry (La traviata) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Opéra de Lausanne; Manon at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Hamburg State Opera; Nannetta (Falstaff) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Micaëla (Carmen) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Baalbeck Festival; Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles) at the Opéra national de Lorraine; Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Suor Angelica and Lauretta (Il trittico) at the Grand Théâtre de Tours; Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride) at the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier; Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Adele (Die Fledermaus) at the Grand Théâtre de Tours…

She created the role of Patricia Baer in Les Pigeons d’argile, a world premiere by Philippe Hurel, at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (DVD), as well as Doña Musique in the premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Le Soulier de satin at the Opéra de Paris.

Vannina Santoni has also sung roles in rediscovered operas, including Princess Saamcheddine (Rabaud’s Mârouf, savetier du Caire) at the Opéra-Comique and the Opéra national de Bordeaux, Agnès (Gounod’s La Nonne sanglante, released on DVD) at the Opéra-Comique, and Massenet’s Grisélidis at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier (released on CD).

Recently she has also performed Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck, and Marguerite (Faust) in Denis Podalydès’s new production conducted by Louis Langrée at the Opéra de Lille and the Opéra-Comique.

Her first solo album, Par amour, was released this year.