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Elisa Prosperi graduated in “P. Mascagni” Conservatory in Livorno under the tutelage of Graziano Polidori. She made also specialized courses such as London Masterclass with Rosalind Plowright; ILV-Institute for Living Voice (Venice, Italy) with Barbara Hannigan, Trevor Wishart and David Moss; Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale with Luciana Serra (Saluzzo, Italy); Eppaner Lied Sommer with Cheryl Studer (Eppan, Italy); Stockhausen - Kurse with Nicholas Isherwood (Kürten, Germany) ; Impuls2019 (Graz, Austria)
She took part in Opera and vocal chamber music concerts, performing also 20th century and contemporary repertoire even with first presentations. Among the others, I concerti della domenica and Suoni Inauditi (Livorno); Ascolta il cielo di notte (Arcetri Astronomical Observatory, Firenze); Corpi da musica: vita e arte di Sylvano Bussotti (Museo Marino Marini, Firenze); OA-Cinque atti teatrali sull’opera d’arte, C.A.N.T.O and Crash Troades, Giancarlo Cauteruccio (Teatro Studio di Scandicci, Firenze); Festival Orizzonti-Verticali (San Gimignano); Tempo Reale Festival (Fondazione Tempo Reale, Firenze); La musica vocale eseguita nei salotti e al Teatro della Pergola a metà Ottocento (Archivio di Stato, Firenze); In the midst of things, Voxnova Italia (Biennale Arte 2015, Venezia); Moving Out, Riccardo Riccardi (Italian Embassy 2016, Washington DC); RTTTZ - Reducing The Tempo To Zero, Ben Vida (Centro Pecci 2017, Prato); EMUfest - International Electroacoustic Music Festival (Roma, 2017); Neue Musik im Stadthaus: STIMMUNG, Voxnova Italia (Ulm, Germany); Mains Hum, Voxnova Italia (Fondazione MAXXI, Roma); 69^ Sagra Malatestiana (Rimini, Italy); Anna Korsun/Samy Moussa/Giacinto Scelsi, Voxnova Italia (Accademia Tedesca - Villa Massimo, Roma)
In 2013 she moved to Leuven (Belgium) for a stage at LUCA-Lemmensinstituut. For the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss’ birth, she made a concert dedicated to the composer.
Since 2015 she’s part of Voxnova Italia vocal ensemble.