Ilaria Casai

Born in Pisa, Ilaria Casai began studying opera singing at the age of thirteen with mezzo-soprano Annamaria Guarducci. She has studied with soprano Alida Berti since 2016, and since 2020 she has continued her training with Mariella Devia and Alexia Voulgaridou.

She has attended masterclasses with Marco Balderi, Fiorenza Cedolins, Alessandro Corbelli, Hugo De Ana, Leonardo De Lisi, Angelo De Sanctis, Angelo Michele Errico, Augusto Fornari, Donato Renzetti, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Roberto Scandiuzzi and Aldo Tarabella.

Her stage roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, for institutions and theatres such as the Fondazione Teatro Verdi in Pisa, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, Teatro Duse in Bologna and Teatro Gentile in Fabriano. In 2024 she sang Annina in Henning Brockhaus’s celebrated “Traviata degli specchi” (the “Mirror Traviata”), conducted by Nir Kabaretti, at Teatro Verdi in Pisa and Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi.

In 2025 she made her debut as Ines in Il trovatore at the Sarzana opera festival, and as Serpina in Paisiello’s La serva padrona at Teatro Verdi in Pisa for the “Musica perduta” festival. In 2026 she sang Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore at Teatro Verdi in Pisa, conducted by Maurizio Cialdi and directed by Andrea Chiodi, and made her debut as Adina for Grande Lirica Umbra at the Giardini del Frontone in Perugia.

Alongside opera she is active in sacred and chamber music. Her solo appearances include Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and Te Deum, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, the Requiems of Mozart and Fauré, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and the world premiere of Ciro Belloni’s Messa. She performs in the chamber music series of the Domus Mazziniana in Pisa.