Italian répétiteur Arianna Congedi graduated from Zurich University of the Arts with a Master’s degree in Piano Pedagogy and Vocal Accompaniment, as well as an Advanced Certificate in Conducting. She is currently a répétiteur on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and will be 2026/27 Young Artist Répétiteur at the National Opera Studio, London.
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Arianna recently made her conducting debut with Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, leading performances of Don Giovanni and Teseo. She has also served as Assistant Conductor for Opera Makers (Guildhall School of Music & Drama in association with Royal Ballet and Opera).
Her work as répétiteur includes The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera), Der Wald and Lucrezia (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Alcina (Saluzzo Opera Academy), Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, and Dido and Aeneas (Zurich University of the Arts), Martinů’s Larmes du couteau and Alexandre bis (Theater Gessnerallee Zürich), and Die Fledermaus (Lyric Opera
Studio Weimar).
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For her musical theatre "Nonna starb an einem Freitag", which intertwined opera scenes by Ligeti and Eötvös with her play script, Arianna received the ZHdK promotional award. In 2023, alongside Jonas Füllemann as sound/visual programmer, Arianna staged and performed K. Stockhausens Klavierstück XIII: Luzifers Traum using machine learning to augment the perception of the piece.

Arianna is a 2024 bursary recipient of the International Opera Awards Foundation and Répétiteur Fellow of the Georg Solti Academy. She was awarded the 2023 Scholarship of the Hirschmann Foundation Switzerland in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and social engagement.


  

Photo by Jennifer Lorenzini