Mara Zampieri
[[File:Jose Carlos Xavier c Elisabete Matos e Mara Zampieri.jpg|thumb|Zampieri (right) with José Carlos Xavier and Elisabete Matos in 2011], at S. Carlos Opera, Lisbon.] Mara Zampieri (born 30 January 1951 in Padua)[1] is an Italian operatic soprano. She trained at Padua Conservatory.
She has performed in the opera houses of Europe, including Milan, London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Vienna; also in San Francisco, New York, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. She has performed in more than fifty operatic roles, including twenty-one in operas by Verdi.
She favors Italian but she also famously performed in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome.[2]
She can be seen on video as Lady Macbeth opposite Renato Bruson, and as Minnie in The Girl of the Golden West.[3]
Notes and references
- ^ Warrack and West (1996); Kennedy and Bourne (2007)
- ^ Kennedy and Bourne (2007). According to the biography on her official website she was the first Italian singer to perform the role in the original German in Vienna.
- ^ IMDb
Sources
- IMDb, Mara Zampieri
- Hoffman, Sarah, "Mara Zampieri: A Tribute to Verdi", Opera Today, 10 May 2005
- Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.), "Mara Zampieri", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2007. (republished on Answers.com).
- Warrack, John Hamilton and West, Ewan, "Zampieri, Mara", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280028-0
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