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Italian operatic soprano
Daniela Dessì, in 2009
Daniela Dessì (14 May 1957 – 20 August 2016) was an Italian operatic soprano.
[1]
Life and career
Born in
Genoa , Italy, Dessì completed her studies at the
Arrigo Boito Conservatory in
Parma and the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. She made her operatic debut on 7 December 1978 at
Sanremo Casino 's theatre as Serpina in
La serva padrona by
Pergolesi during the season of
Savona 's Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa.
[2]
In 1980, she distinguished herself as a finalist at the Maria Callas International Competition organized by Italy's
RAI TV.
[3] Her international career took her to a variety of opera theatres, singing under the direction of conductors such as
Riccardo Muti ,
Claudio Abbado , and the
Metropolitan Opera 's
James Levine .
[4]
Dessì's 2008–2009 season began with Tosca in
Florence , where she performed an encore of "Vissi d'arte", the first encore at
Teatro Comunale di Firenze since
Renata Tebaldi 's "Amami Alfredo" in 1956.
[5] She later performed at the Verdi Theatre in
Trieste , and also performed Adriana Lecouvreur in
Palermo , Puccini's
La fanciulla del West in Seville,
[6]
Manon Lescaut in
Warsaw ,
Madama Butterfly in
Hanover , and
Aida in Verona and
Cagliari . She closed the season in
Barcelona with
Turandot . In January 2009, she opened the season of recital at
La Scala .
[7]
Dessì's partner was the Italian tenor
Fabio Armiliato , with whom she frequently performed and recorded. She died of colon cancer at Poliambulanza Hospital in
Brescia on 20 August 2016, at age 59.
[8]
Repertoire
Giuseppe Verdi
Ernani , Elvira
Luisa Miller , Luisa
Rigoletto , Gilda
Il trovatore , Leonora
La traviata , Violetta
I Vespri Siciliani , Elena
Simon Boccanegra , Amelia
Un ballo in maschera , Amelia
La forza del destino , Leonora
Don Carlos , Elisabetta
Aida , Aida
Otello , Desdemona
Falstaff , Alice
Giacomo Puccini
Vincenzo Bellini
Gaetano Donizetti
Gioachino Rossini
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pietro Mascagni
Umberto Giordano
Francesco Cilea
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Claudio Monteverdi
Georg Friedrich Händel
Arrigo Boito
Georges Bizet
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Domenico Cimarosa
Jacques Offenbach
Amilcare Ponchielli
Sergei Prokofiev
Nino Rota
Antonio Salieri
Tommaso Traetta
Antonio Vivaldi
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Riccardo Zandonai
Discography
La Traviata . Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, John Neschling, conductor. SoloVoce
Puccini Arias . Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Marco Boemi, conductor.
Decca
Daniela Dessì sings Verdi . Orchestra della Fondazione Toscanini, Steven Mercurio, conductor. Decca
Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier . Armiliato, Guelfi, Rinaldi; Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi Milano,
Vjekoslav Šutej , conductor. Universal
Love Duets . conductor: Marco Boemi. Philips
Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly . Armiliato, Pons,
Plácido Domingo , conductor. Dynamic
Giacomo Puccini, Tosca . Armiliato, Raimondi. Opus Arte (BBC)
Giuseppe Verdi, Aida . Armiliato, Fiorillo. Opus Arte (BBC)
Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut . Armiliato, Vanaud, Mercurio. Real Sound
Enrico Toselli, Le Romanze Ritrovate . Armiliato, Leonardo Previero, piano. Real Sound
Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur . Borodina, Larin, Guelfi; Rizzi-Brignoli. TDK
Domenico Cimarosa, Gli Orazii e i Curiazii . Angeloni, Bolognesi, Alaimo; De Bernart, conductor. Bongiovanni
Antonio Vivaldi, Il Farnace . Dupuy, Angeloni, Malakova, Gamberucci; De Bernart, conductor. Arkadia Fonit Cetra/Agora Musica
Gioachino Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia . Raffanti, Depuy, Portella; Zedda, conductor. Frequenz
Gioachino Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia . Palacio, Calvi, Antonucci; Rizzi, conductor. Bongiovanni
Awards
Premio Flaviano Labó (2010)
Premio Operaclick (2009)
Premio Città di
Varese (2009)
Premio Myrta Gabardi (2009)
Pentagramma d'Oro Comune di
Marnate (2009)
Premio Abbiati (2008)
Regina della Lirica dalla Associazione Tiberini a San Lorenzo in Campo (2007)
Premio Le Muse (2007)
Premio Zenatello Arena di Verona
Premio Giordano Comune di
Baveno
Premio Giacomo Puccini Torre del Lago
Premio Cilea di
Reggio Calabria
Gigli d’Oro Comune di
Recanati
Premio Liguria Comune di Genova
Premio E. Mazzoleni
Palermo
Mascagni d’Oro Bagnara di Romagna
Premio Giuditta Pasta
Saronno
References
^
"Lutto nel mondo della lirica: addio al soprano Daniela Dessì" . Il Tirreno (in Italian). 21 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-22 .
^ A copy of the original theatre programme (where her surname is spelled 'Dessy', as was quite usual at the beginning of her career) was shown by
Fabio Armiliato during the
RAI broadcast of the "Second Daniela Dessì Gala" (recorded at the
Teatro Carlo Felice in
Genoa on 30 June 2018). It is therefore incorrect to date her debut in 1979, as done for instance by
Karl-Josef Kutsch and
Leo Riemens in Großes Sängerlexikon , Munich, Saur, 2003, p. 1132.
^ Vittorio Emiliani,
RAI: Al via Concorso Internazionale Maria Callas (5) , "
Adnkronos ", 5 December 2000.
^
"Daniela Dessì, 59, Most Versatile Italian Soprano of her Generation, Has Died" .
Opera News . 21 August 2016.
^
"Be Kind, Rewind: Daniela Dessì Gives First Encore Since 1956 At Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" . Opera Chic . Retrieved 2016-08-21 .
^ Mengíbar, Andrés Moreno (March 22, 2009).
"Pasión y teatralidad en la voz" . www.diariodesevilla.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-08-21 .
^
"Archivio Corriere della Sera" . archiviostorico.corriere.it (in Italian). Archived from
the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2016-08-21 .
^
Italian soprano Daniela Dessi dies suddenly ; (in Italian)
ANSA: Morta la soprano Daniela Dessì .
^
Archive Teatro alla Scala
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