Sonia Bergamasco

Sonia Bergamasco was born in Milan, where she graduated in piano. She made her debut in Giorgio Strehler's Arlecchino servitore di due padroni, and played the role of the Fairy in the last theatrical and television edition of Pinocchio by Carmelo Bene. She has also worked in theater with Theodoros Terzopoulos, Massimo Castri, and Glauco Mauri. Winner of the 2014 Duse Award for her acting work, she is an interpreter and director of shows where the musical experience intertwines more deeply with the theater. Among others, Il Ballo (from the story by Irène Némirovsky) and L’uomo seme, both born from artistic collaboration with Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan. In March 2017, she directed the show "Louise e Renée" at the Piccolo Teatro, inspired by "Memorie di due giovani spose" by Balzac, for which Stefano Massini wrote the original dramaturgy.

During the long artistic collaboration with composer Azio Corghi, she performs singer-actress roles in Italy and abroad. In the role of Elvira in the opera The Absolute Dissolute with a libretto by Jose Saramago, she is at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon in 2005 and at La Scala in Milan in 2006. At the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in September 2017, she is the performer and author of the stage narration in the concert version of Fidelio by Beethoven conducted by Zubin Mehta. She collaborates regularly in a duo - with a wide repertoire for voice and piano - with musician Emanuele Arciuli. For the 2019 edition of the Florence May Music Festival, she directs The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart.

Protagonist of the film L'amore probabilmente by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Silver Ribbon 2004 for La meglio gioventù by Marco Tullio Giordana; she works with Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Piccioni and Franco Battiato. She is the Queen Mother in the film Riccardo va all'inferno by Roberta Torre and Luce in the comedy Come un gatto in tangenziale, directed by Riccardo Milani.

Flaiano Award for Best Actor in the film De Gasperi, directed by Liliana Cavani, has achieved great success in the TV series Tutti pazzi per amore and Una grande famiglia, both directed by Riccardo Milani, and plays Livia in the television series Il commissario Montalbano. For the film Quo vado?, directed by Gennaro Nunziante, he won the Flaiano Award for Actor of the Year, the Alida Valli Award for Best Supporting Actress at the Bari International Film Festival, and the Golden CIAK Award.