Marianna Pizzolato is a Sicilian-born Italian mezzo-soprano who trained at the Bellini Conservatory in Palermo. She made her professional debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 2003, subsequently building a career centered on bel canto and early music repertoire.

Pizzolato has performed major roles at leading houses including the Paris Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, and La Scala, with a repertoire spanning Rossini heroines, Handel, Monteverdi, and more recently Verdi at the Royal Opera House London. She is particularly known for interpreting Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Rossini’s mezzo roles, matching the sample repertoire associated with her here.