Language Coach, Répétiteur

Annalisa Monticelli

Norma

Biography

Annalisa Monticelli has worked as an opera coach for nearly two decades, contributing to productions across Europe and North America as both répétiteur and diction coach. For Irish National Opera, she has worked as language coach for productions of Puccini’s Tosca, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Puccini’s La bohème, Verdi’s La traviata and Rigoletto, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. She has developed a distinctive approach to diction, grounded in musical interpretation and language prosody, while maintaining a rigorous focus on the technical demands of singing. She has performed internationally as a piano soloist, as well as with ensembles and orchestra, following studies in solo and collaborative piano, voice, conducting, chamber music, composition, and music education in Italy, Argentina, and the United States. Annalisa moved to Ireland to take up a fellowship at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She is currently a vocal and diction coach at RIAM and an academic tutor at Maynooth University, bringing together academic scholarship and professional performance practice. She has performed in many major national venues in Ireland and continues to appear regularly with a range of ensembles. She has released several recordings and has, in recent years, presented performances, masterclasses, and workshops in Spain, Italy, Portugal, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Poland, France, Malaysia, and the United States.

May 2026