Anna Caterina Antonacci

Anna Caterina Antonacci, July 2012

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. Antonacci studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012.

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

• Era La Notte/Anna Caterina Antonacci (Monteverdi, Strozzi, Giramo)

References

• 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