Alda Caiello is one of the greatest interpreters in the European scene for versatility, refinement and expressive ability. Graduated in piano and singing at the Conservatory of Perugia, Berio’s favorite singer for Folk Songs, she has sung under the guidance of conductors such as Berio himself, Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Arturo Tamayo, Gianandrea Noseda, Jonathan Webb, Peter Keuschnig, Massimo de Bernart, Donato Renzetti, Emilio Pomarico, Pascal Rophé, Waine Marshall, Stephen Ausbury, Peter Rundel, Lucas Vis, Christopher Franklin, Sandro Gorli, Renato Rivolta, Marcello Panni, Fabio Maestri, Marco Angius, Tito Ceccherini, and with directors of the caliber of Daniele Abbado, Davide Livermore, Yoshi Oida, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Michael Scheidl, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Stefano Poda, Ignacio García, Giorgio Pressburger, Cecilia Ligorio.
She has been invited by major European musical institutions, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Oji Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Festival of Contemporary Music in Barcelona, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Mozart Festival in La Coruña, the Wien Modern Festival, the Manca Festival, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Bologna Festival, the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, the Munich Biennale, the MiTo Festival in Milan and Turin, the Alicante Festival, the Ravenna Festival, and the Hamburg Symphoniker Musikfest. In recent seasons she returned with two different concerts at the Musikverein in Vienna (Eine Florentisiche Tragoedie by Zemlinsky, lieder by Webern, Berg, Schoenberg) while with the ORT she performed in concert in Florence and Tuscany with a programme dedicated to new compositions by Marcello Panni.
In Costanza she sang again with the Prazak Quartet, and then held concerts at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno. At the Teatro Comunale in Bologna she participated in the creation of Il suono giallo by Alessandro Solbiati, conducted by Angius. She gave life to Dialoghi della distanza by Portera at the Amici della Musica Florence with Sentieri Selvaggi, together with the Italian premiere of Galgenlieder by Sofia Gubaidulina, Lo specchio magico, a new opera by Fabio Vacchi at the Maggio Fiorentino, she held concerts in Milan (Teatro Litta, with Divertimento Ensemble) in L’Aquila, a special concert dedicated to Cathy Berberian at the Sacher Foundation in Basel and took part in Oltre la porta, an opera by Carlo Boccadoro conducted by the author at the Stresa Festival. She also sang Passion selon Sade by Bussotti at the Parco della Musica, with the Rome Opera Orchestra conducted by Marcello Panni. She then returned to the Musikverein in Vienna to perform Berg's lieder and Poulenc's La Dame de Montecarlo, in concert at the Verdi in Trieste. Finally, she performed Nono's Prometeo at the Teatro Farnese in Parma and was a guest at the Festival Printemps Des Arts in Montecarlo.
