Marianna Pizzolato graduated with honours at the Bellini Conservatory in Palermo and attended Lieder classes in Nuremberg with Rosemarie Cabaud and Werner Dormann. Throughout her career she has collaborated with Raúl Giménez, with whom she undertook an in-depth study of her major Rossini rôles. She studied with Claudia Carbi.

She made her operatic début in 2002 singing the title rôle in Rossini’s Tancredi under the baton of Marco Zambelli, followed by Dorina in Cimarosa’s Il marito disperato in Caserta, conducted by Antonino Fogliani. She regularly performs Baroque and eighteenth-century repertoire. After her stage début in Il viaggio a Reims in 2003 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, she became a favourite returning guest to the festival, singing Tancredi (title rôle) in 2004, L’Italiana in Algeri in 2006, Andromaca (Ermione) in 2008, Emma (Zelmira) in 2009 and La Cenerentola (title rôle) in 2010.

She has a number of recordings to her credit and continues to appear in major opera houses in Italy and elsewhere.