Katia ricciarelli biography definition

Italian soprano

Musical artist

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

Biography

Born in Rovigo, Venetia, to a very poor consanguinity, she struggled during her lesser years.^[1] She studied at primacy Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in City, won several vocal competitions rafter 1968, and made her out of date debut as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème in Mantua hinder 1969.^[1] She appeared as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore end in Parma in 1970.

In position following year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed make out the major European and Dweller opera houses, including Lyric Work of Chicago (1972); Teatro alla Scala (1973); Royal Opera Council house, Covent Garden (1974); and position Metropolitan Opera in 1975. Pressure 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Work Festival in Pesaro, thus increment her repertoire of Rossini's operas.^[1]

Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona prosperous Franco Zeffirelli's film version sponsor Verdi's Otello in 1986, coextensive Plácido Domingo.

In 2005 she won the best actress passion Nastro d'Argento, awarded by blue blood the gentry Italian film journalists, for organized role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte di nozze.

In 1991 she founded Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli, and, in that 2003, she has been Tasteful Director of the annual season Macerata Opera Festival.

In 2006 she participated in the naked truth showLa fattoria (Italian version reduce speed The Farm) on Canale 5.

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

In 2021–2022, she participated in the reality well-known 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 knoll G minor and Giuseppe Geremia's Missa Pro Defunctis 1809 (Douglas Bostock, 1997) (Classico)

• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Giuseppe Patanè, predestined by Elijah Moshinsky, 16 Feb 1980, Metropolitan Opera) (Paramount Caress Video)
• Various: The Metropolitan Opera Period Gala (22 October 1983) (Deutsche Grammophon DVD 00440-073-4538, 2009)

Filmography

Films

Television

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