Elisabetta Martorana studied in Caltanissetta and Rome and then attended the Academy of Operatic Art in Osimo where she studied under P. Washington and R. Kabaivanska. She won first prize in the Velluti Competition and La Bohème dei Giovani. She made her debut as Musetta in La Bohème in Bari and thereafter at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice under Marcello Viotti; she has repeated the role at several theatres (Rovigo, Padova, Treviso). Since then she has appeared in many operas – La serva padrona, Il matrimonio segreto, L`elisir d`amore, Il campanello, Die lustige Witwe, Il segreto di Susanna, Marin Faliero, Nabucco, in La traviata as Annina with Lorin Maazel, Parsifal and La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein. She sang Nedda in Pagliacci under Giuseppe Giacomini, Sophie in Werther at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Papageno in The Magic Flute at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza and Mimì in La Bohème in South America. Highlights among her recent engagements were the roles of Rosaura in Wolf Ferrari's La vedova scaltra and Anna in Nabucco, both at the Teatro La Fenice; Suor Genoveffa in Suor Angelica at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the First Priestess in Aida at the Teatro Verdi in Triest, a role she will sing again at this year's Bregenz Festival. She sings also Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana at La Fenice Opera House with Walter Fraccaro and Anna Smirnova in a new production by Ermanno Olmi.