Cinzia Rizzone studied cello at the Naples San Pietro a Majella Conservatory and singing at the Verdi Conservatory in Turin. After prizes in national and international competitions she made her début in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Arena in Verona. She has since sung in a number of opera houses, in Naples, Geneva, Bergamo, Novara, Trieste, Turin, Cologne, Wiesbaden and Budapest. She specialises in the operas of Donizetti and Bellini, but has also appeared as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Liù in Turandot and Micaela in Carmen.

Cinzia Rizzone has collaborated with distinguished conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Maurizio Arena, Renato Palumbo, Plácido Domingo, Gabriele Ferro and Bruno Bartoletti. Her concert repertoire ranges from the baroque to the contemporary.