Margherita Maria Sala is the First Prize winner of the Cesti International Singing Competition 2020 where she also received the Audience Award and the Special Prize from the Festival Resonanzen at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Born in Lecco, Margherita began her musical education as a child under the guidance of her parents, both musicians. Besides early training in violin, she studied singing in the polyphonic vocal group “Famiglia Sala” composed of the seven members of her own family.
In 2017 she graduated in Choral Conducting from the Accademia Biennale di Formazione per Direttori di Coro in Bellinzona under the guidance of Marco Berrini.
In the 2024/2025 season, Margherita will star as Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda at Theater Kiel and will team up with Václav Luks for Mozart’s Requiem at Prague Rudolfinum and Paris La Seine Musicale. With the complicity of Ottavio Dantone, she will have performed as Cornelia in Giacomelli’s Cesare in Egitto at the Innsbruck Festival and as Ericlea in a Pier Luigi Pizzi production of Monteverdi’s Ritorno di Ulisse in patria at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna.
She makes her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.