Anna Caterina Antonacci
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Anna Caterina Antonacci (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon[citation needed].
Life
Antonacci studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. She appeared at Covent Garden in 2006, with Jonas Kaufman.[1] She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012.[2]
Repertory
- Bellini: Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
- Berlioz: Cassandre (Les Troyens), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Cléopâtre (La mort de Cléopâtre)
- Bizet: Carmen (Carmen)
- Cherubini: Medea (Medea)
- Cimarosa:Orazia (Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi)
- Donizetti: Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda)
- Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride)
- Halévy: Rachel (La Juive)
- Handel: Agrippina (Agrippina), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), Serse (Serse)
- Manfroce: Polyxena (Ecuba)
- Massenet: Charlotte (Werther)
- Mayr: Clotilde (La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa)
- Monteverdi: both Poppea and Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
- Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Elettra (Idomeneo)
- Paisiello: Elfrida (Elfrida), Nina (Nina)
- Puccini: Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
- Rossini: Rosina (Il barbiere di siviglia), Dorliska (Torvaldo e Dorliska), Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Semiramide (Semiramide), Ermione (Ermione), Elisabetta (Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra), Elena (La donna del lago), Zelmira (Zelmira), Elcia (Mosè in Egitto), Anaï (Moïse), Angelina (La Cenerentola)
- Verdi: Flora (La traviata), Nannetta (Falstaff), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Marchesa del Poggio (Un giorno di regno)
Discography
Operas
- Berlioz: Les Troyens/Gardiner, Théâtre du Châtelet
- Bizet: Carmen/Pappano, Covent Garden
- Handel: Rodelinda/Christie, Glyndebourne Opera
- Marschner: Hans Heiling/Palumbo, Cagliari Opera
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea/Bolton, Bavarian State Opera
- Mozart: Così fan tutte/Kuhn, Marchigiana Philharmonic
- Mozart: Don Giovanni/Muti, Vienna State Opera
- Rossini: Ermione/Davis, Glyndebourne
- Verdi: Falstaff/Muti, La Scala
Solo
References
- ^ "Anna Caterina Antonacci, Beyond Compare". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ Woolfe, Zachary (30 March 2012). "A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways". The New York Times
Sources
- Jessica Duchen, Prima Donna Autentica, Opera News, June 2011 – VOL. 75, NO. 12.
- Christiansen, Rupert, The Callas of our time?, Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006. Accessed 26 February 2009.
- Fisher, Neil, Anna Caterina Antonacci: the riddle of the sphinx, The Times, 16 January 2009. Accessed 26 February 2009.
- Grove Music Dictionary. Accessed via subscription 25 February 2009.
External links
- Anna Caterina Antonacci, Askonas Holt Artists' Management
- An Interview with Anna Caterina Antonacci, July 2012, Opera Lively
- Anna Caterina Antonacci, operabase
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