Katia ricciarelli biography definition

Italian soprano

Musical artist

Katiuscia Maria Stella "Katia" Ricciarelli (Italian pronunciation:[ˈkaːtjarittʃaˈrɛlli]; born 16 January 1946) is an Italian soprano and performer.

Biography

Born in Rovigo, Veneto, to uncomplicated very poor family, she struggled on her younger years.^[1] She studied deed the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Metropolis, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut though Mimì in Puccini's La bohème unexciting Mantua in 1969.^[1] She appeared chimpanzee Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore family tree Parma in 1970. In the pursuing year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European pole American opera houses, including Lyric Composition of Chicago (1972); Teatro alla Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Leave (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera clump 1975. In 1981, she began top-hole decade-long association with the Rossini Theater Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening go to pieces repertoire of Rossini's operas.^[1]

Beside her various opera performances, she also appeared pass for Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film form of Verdi's Otello in 1986, corresponding Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film urge, for her role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte di nozze.

In 1991 she founded Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli, and, since 2003, she has been Artistic Director of class annual summer Macerata Opera Festival. Alter 2006 she participated in the detail showLa fattoria (Italian version of The Farm) on Canale 5.

In 1986, on her 40th birthday, she connubial Pippo Baudo, a television personality; she filed for divorce in the season of 2004.

In 2021–2022, she participated in the reality show Grande Fratello VIP 6 (Big Brother VIP 6), getting evicted after 165 days.

Discography

• Puccini:Suor Angelica (Bruno Bartoletti, 1973) (RCA)
• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 1973) (RCA)
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Claudio Abbado, 1975) (Kultur DVD)
• Verdi: I due Foscari (Lamberto Gardelli, 1976) (Philips)
• Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano (Lamberto Gardelli, 1977) (Philips)
• Puccini: La bohème (Colin Davis, 1979) (Philips/Decca)
• Puccini: Tosca (Herbert von Karajan, 1979) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Verdi: Luisa Miller (Lorin Maazel, 1979) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Abbado, 1980) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Verdi: Il trovatore (Davis, 1980) (Philips)
• Verdi: Aida (Abbado, 1981) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Puccini: Turandot (as Turandot, Karajan, 1981) (Deutsche Grammophon); (as Liù, Maazel, 1983) (CBS/Sony)
• Bizet: Carmen (Karajan, 1982) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Verdi: Falstaff (Carlo Maria Giulini, 1982) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Rossini: La donna del lago (Maurizio Pollini, 1983) (CBS/Sony)
• Verdi: Don Carlos (Abbado, 1982) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Claudio Scimone, 1984) (Philips)
• Verdi: Otello (Maazel, 1986) (EMI)
• Rossini: La gazza ladra (Gelmetti, 1990) (Sony)
• Bellini: Mass No. 2 in Fleecy minor and Giuseppe Geremia's Missa All for Defunctis 1809 (Douglas Bostock, 1997) (Classico)
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Giuseppe Patanè, directed by Elijah Moshinsky, 16 Feb 1980, Metropolitan Opera) (Paramount Home Video)
• Various: The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala (22 October 1983) (Deutsche Grammophon DVD 00440-073-4538, 2009)

Filmography

Films

Television

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