Reviews
[...] Maria Chiara Ardolino affronta il repertorio con un’emissione asciutta, poco incline al vibrato decorativo, che lascia respirare la parola latina senza soffocarla di affetti posticci. In “Vulnerasti cor meum” l’agilità non è mai fine a se stessa: ogni fioritura nasce da un’esigenza retorica precisa, e la cantante la piega alla frase piuttosto che il contrario. “Regina caeli” chiude il programma con una misura che altri interpreti avrebbero forse ceduto alla tentazione dell’effetto; qui resta trattenuta, quasi pudica, e ne guadagna in credibilità stilistica. [...]
[...] Maria Chiara Ardolino approaches the repertoire with a clean tone, showing little inclination towards decorative vibrato, which allows the Latin text to breathe without suffocating it with artificial embellishments. In ‘Vulnerasti cor meum’, her agility is never an end in itself: every ornamentation stems from a specific rhetorical need, and the singer adapts it to the phrase rather than the other way round. ‘Regina caeli’ brings the programme to a close with a passage where other performers might perhaps have succumbed to the temptation to overdo the effect; here, however, it remains restrained, almost modest, and gains in stylistic credibility as a result. [...]
July 2026 - a voce sola
Alessandro Cammarano, Le Salon Musical
[...] Dignitoso il concorso solistico [...] soprattutto del terzo soprano Maria Chiara Ardolino, per un Cantate Domino che nel disinibito buttarsi in agone ricorda in un lampo come ella sia stata allieva di una maestra di retorica del calibro di Romina Basso. [...]
[...] The solo performances were impressive [...] particularly that of the third soprano, Maria Chiara Ardolino, in *Cantate Domino*; her uninhibited throwing herself into the performance served as a fleeting reminder that she had been a pupil of a rhetoric teacher of the calibre of Romina Basso. [...]
February 2025 - Venezia, Basilica di San Marco, 18 dicembre 2024
Francesco Lora, rivista Musica
[...] La voix pure de la soprano Maria Chiara Ardolino a emporté la musique céleste du célèbre Miserere de Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) vers les cimes. Car ce chef d’œuvre, originellement réservé à la seule Chapelle Sixtine, nécessite absolument une voix hors du commun par sa clarté et ses vocalises aériennes à nulles autres pareilles. [...]
[...] The pure voice of soprano Maria Chiara Ardolino carried the celestial music of Gregorio Allegri’s (1582–1652) famous *Miserere* to the very heights. For this masterpiece, originally reserved exclusively for the Sistine Chapel, absolutely demands a voice of extraordinary clarity and ethereal vocalises that are unrivalled. [...]
March13th 2024 - Roma exulte à Versailles
Marc Dumont
[...] Une belle envolée vocale récurrente parvient néanmoins à se distinguer, celle de Maria Chiara Ardolino, son appel à la joie et à la force résonant comme un cri de l’âme, en écho lointain. [...]
[...] One beautiful, recurring vocal flourish nevertheless stands out: that of Maria Chiara Ardolino, whose call for joy and strength resonates like a cry from the soul, a distant echo. [...]
March 28th 2023 - Rome à Genève pour Les Constellations de La Cité Bleue universitaire
Joël Heuillon
[...] La Cappella Mediterranea était au centre, en petite formation autour de l’orgue de Leonardo García Alarcón. Le Miserere d’Allegri (ou les dentelles musicales aériennes de Maria Chiara Ardolino purent se perdre dans les faisceaux bleutés) allait précéder quelques pièces quasi inconnues d’un compositeur qui ne l’est pas moins, Giovanni Giorgi (vénitien comme son nom d’origine, Zorzi, en attestait). [...]
[...] La Cappella Mediterranea took centre stage, performing in a small ensemble formation around Leonardo García Alarcón’s organ. Allegri’s *Miserere* (or Maria Chiara Ardolino’s ethereal musical lacework, which might have been lost in the bluish beams of light) was to precede a few virtually unknown pieces by a composer who is no less obscure, Giovanni Giorgi (a Venetian, as his original surname, Zorzi, attested). [...]
March 27th 2023 - A Genève, deux concerts-évènements pour évoquer Rome et Jérusalem