SAYAKA SAITO

B I O

Sayaka is born in Japan

She started studying singing opera and piano since very young.

Teenager Sayaka went to Australia as exchange student and she experimented international culture environment.

She had a passion for writing novels and poetry and also for dance and, since she was a child, she also played rhythmic gymnastics, then winning the competition in her city and learnt traditional Japanese dance.

She graduated in opera singing from Tokyo college of Music.

She participated in the documentary television program "Me and the singing" for the Japanese national television NHK. She won the Asia Classic Concert competition in Tokyo, Suntory Hall, for the opera singing and also the Yamagata opera competition.

She performed Hikaru Hayashi's opera "Yodaka no Hoshi" in Yamagata city hall. She sang Beethoven's 9th symphony with the Japan philharmonic Orchestra at Minato mirai hall in Yokohama and Suntory hall in Tokyo and Tokyo metropolitan Theater.

Sayaka came to Italy, she entered the conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome.

The following year she entered the faculty of literature and philosophy of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. She also obtained a degree and a master degree in the disciplines of entertainment, performing arts and music and cinema at the faculty of literature and philosophy of the University of Rome.

She studied singing with Michela Sburlati and attended Master classes with Simone Alaimo at the "A. Toscanini "in Verbania and at the  Academy in Sicily, with Alessandra Althoff at the Internationale Sommerakademie Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, at the Villa Ca 'Zenobia Academy in Treviso, with Fernando Opa at Operando di Verona, with Amarilli Nizza in Bracciano.

The protagonist of numerous concerts including the Recitals with the famous Pianist Rolando Nicolosi in Rome, at the Teatro Marcello, the Villa Torlonia Theater, the Sala Baldini, the Waldensian Faculty of Theology and several others. Also worthy of mention are the "Gran Galà lirico" concert with the Verbania orchestra, the concert at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, the lyric concert in Florence, the 'Recitar Cantando' concert at the Collegio F.lli Cairoli in Pavia, the Opera Concert in Verona, the "Concert for listening education" (where he performed arias by Giuseppe Verdi) in Arezzo, the  Recital at the Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi in Rome.

She made her debut in the roles of Tosca (Tosca) and Cio-cio San (Madama Butterfly) in Rome. She performed the roles of Aida (Aida) , of Mimì (La Boheme). She also supported the coverage of the role of Leonora (Il Trovatore) in Japan.

She participated in the Rai 5 television program, "The Italian Opera told by Elio: discovering Aida".

She played the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at the Orchestra Conducting Masterclass held by Maestro Donato Renzetti at the “Aria di musica” Academy in Rome and Conducting and Singer Masterclass held by Maestro Donato Renzetti in Frentana Musical Summer in Lanciano .

Also part of her repertoire are the roles of Odabella in Attila by Verdi, Elisabetta in "Don Carlo" by G. Verdi, by Amelia in "Un ballo in maschera" by G. Verdi, Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth", by Giselda in I Lombardi alla prima crociata by Verdi, Requiem by Verdi,  Manon Lescaut in "Manon Lescaut" by Puccini,  Turandot in "Turandot" by Puccini,  Iris in "Iris" by Pietro Mascagni, Salome in "Salome" by Richard Strauss, Arianna in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer.