Silvia Colloca

{{Short description|Singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality}}

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| image = Silvia Colloca.jpg

| caption = Colloca in 2012

| name = Silvia Colloca{{cite web | url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/01/07/i-met-dracula-and-fell-love-silvia-collocas-journey-australia | title=I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia | access-date=2015-12-04 | website=News }}

| birth_name = Silvia Colloca

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|07|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Milan, Italy

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Actress
opera singer
author
television personality

}}

| spouse = {{marriage|Richard Roxburgh|2004}}

| children = 3

| years_active = 2002–present

}}

Silvia Colloca{{cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-met-dracula-and-fell-in-love-silvia-collocas-journey-to-australia/dw6lib3h6|title=I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia|date=7 January 2015|author=Ella Archibald-Binge|access-date=22 December 2022|publisher=SBS World News}} (born 23 July 1977) is an Italian-Australian actress, opera singer, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality.{{Cite web|title = Who is Silvia Colloca?|url = http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2014/10/16/who-silvia-colloca|website = Food| date=16 October 2014 |access-date = 2015-12-04}}{{Cite web|title = I met Dracula and fell in love: Silvia Colloca's journey to Australia|url = http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/01/07/i-met-dracula-and-fell-love-silvia-collocas-journey-australia|website = News|access-date = 2015-12-04}}{{Cite web|title = Silvia Colloca steps out of the kitchen to take on the operatic role of Orfeo|url = http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/private-sydney/silvia-colloca-steps-out-of-the-kitchen-to-take-on-the-operatic-role-of-orfeo-20150305-13vtka.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|date = 5 March 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}{{Cite web|title = Silvia Colloca to lead audience through gallery in modern take on Orpheus tragedy|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/spectrum-now-2015/silvia-colloca-to-lead-audience-through-gallery-in-modern-take-on-orpheus-tragedy-20150207-1387dn.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|date = 7 February 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}} She has published six cookbooks.

Life and career

Colloca was born in Milan to Loredana and Mario Colloca. Her first major film role was in Van Helsing, in which she played Verona, one of Dracula's brides. On 25 September 2004, at the medieval castle of Montalto in Tuscany, Italy, she married the Australian actor Richard Roxburgh who played Dracula in that film. They have two sons and a daughter. The family currently resides in Sydney.{{Cite web|title = Silvia Colloca's secret ingredient for the sweet life|url = http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/interviews/silvia-collocas-secret-ingredient-for-the-sweet-life-20150725-gikllg.html|website = Daily Life|date = 26 July 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}{{Cite web|title = Miranda tapped for Play School role|url = http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/abc-announces-exciting-new-developments-for-2016/news-story/3a17e563e1ec004ea1f9fe25ee17e76e|publisher = News.com.au|date = 24 November 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}

Colloca is an opera-trained mezzo-soprano and worked as a musical theatre performer in Italy before becoming a film actress. She appeared in 2015 as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Sydney, and as The Queen in Lindy Hume's production of Snow White for Opera Queensland and La Boite theatre in 2016. Her debut album, Sing Like an Italian, was released by Decca in October 2022. She performs four numbers alongside arias and art songs by international stars singers. The album made its debut at No. 1 on the ARIA Core Classical and Classical/Crossover charts.{{cite magazine|url=https://limelightmagazine.com.au/features/cooking-up-an-album/|url-access=subscription|title=Cooking up an album|author=Jo Litson|date=21 November 2022|access-date=22 December 2022|magazine=Limelight}}

Television

Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca,{{cite web|title=Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/food/programs/made-in-italy|publisher=SBS|access-date=28 November 2014}} an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on SBS TV in November 2014, coinciding with the publication of the book of the same name.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/television/australias-own-kitchen-goddess-silvia-colloca-reveals-her-culinary-secrets-on-made-in-italy-on-sbs/story-fni0cc2c-1227057476408 |title=Australia's own kitchen goddess Silvia Colloca reveals her culinary secrets on Made in Italy on SBS|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=Sydney|access-date=27 November 2014 }} Colloca took a film crew home to meet her Italian family, showcasing three picturesque regions of Italy, Abruzzo where her family is from, Marche, and Molise, using her mother's kitchen to present {{langnf|it|cucina povera|cuisine of the poor}}.{{Cite web|title = ABC TV launches 2016 programming with spotlight on local drama|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-tv-launches-2016-programming-with-spotlight-on-local-drama-20151124-gl73hl.html|website =The Sydney Morning Herald|date = 25 November 2015|access-date = 2015-12-04}}

Silvia's Italian Table, an eight part reality and cooking series debuted on ABC on 6 October 2016. In each episode, Colloca invites a group of celebrities to cook and eat with her and engage in entertaining and intelligent conversation. Guests featured are Kathy Lette, Lisa McCune, Tom Gleeson, Magda Szubanski, Matt Moran, Ken Done, Sarah Ferguson, Merrick Watts, Claire Hooper, Amanda Vanstone, Pia Miranda and Ian Thorpe.{{Cite web|url=http://iview.abc.net.au/collection/silvias-italian-table|title = Silvia's Italian Table: Complete Series}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.enhancetv.com.au/browse/series/350547/silvias-italian-table|title = Educational videos for the Australian curriculum}}

Cook Like an Italian,{{cite web|title=SBS summer highlights|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/12/sbs-summer-highlights.html|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=5 June 2022}} an Australian 10-part TV series, premiered on SBS Food in November 2020. A second season premiered in April 2021 and third season in May 2022.{{cite web|title=Upfronts 2022: NITV, SBS Food, World Movies|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/02/upfronts-2022-nitv-sbs-food-sbs-world-movies.html|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=5 June 2022}}

Filmography

Casomai (2002) as Cannes award hostess
Van Helsing (2004) as Verona
The Detonator (2006) as Nadia Cominski
Virgin Territory (2007) as Sister Lisabetta
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) as Carmilla
Out of the Night (2010) as Roberta
Triple Happiness (2010)
L'Apocalisse delle scimmie (2012) as Tossica
Nerve (2013) as Elena
Dante's Inferno Animated (2013, Short) as Beatrice (voice: Italian version)
Little Tornadoes (2022) as Maria
The Twelve (2022) as Sonia Spears
Sting (2024) as Maria

Published works

Silvia's Cucina, Penguin 2013.
Made in Italy, Penguin 2014.
La Dolce Vita, Penguin 2016.
Love Laugh Bake, Pan Macmillan 2018.

Music career

In 2022, Colloca signed with Decca Records and released Sing Like An Italian in October 2022. The album peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Classic Album Chart{{cite web|url=http://cdn.aria.com.au/pdfs/325AFFEAFFED4C5636288ABB5CDF263DF5D6E35F4FB857313B0141F0815C9E39/ARIA%20Core%20Classical%20Albums%20Chart.pdf?seq=39|title=ARIA Classic Album Chart|website=ARIA Charts|date=20 February 2023|access-date=19 March 2023}} and was the second biggest album in that genre in Australia in 2022.{{cite web|url=http://cdn.aria.com.au/pdfs/2910E7A106934D3EAAC19EF3F35036B4D851DC120620472146FF4C24A55BF0A3/ARIA%20Top%2050%20Core%20Classical%20Albums%20Chart%20-%202022.pdf?seq=39|title= ARIA TOP 50 CORE CLASSICAL ALBUMS CHART|website=ARIA Charts|date=2022|access-date=19 March 2023}}

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