Daniela Dessì

Daniela Dessì, in 2009

Daniela Dessì (born May 14, 1957, in Genoa, Italy[1]) is an Italian lirico-spinto soprano.

Daniela Dessì completed her studies at the Conservatory of Parma and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Italy. After having won the first prize at the International Competition organized by Italy's RAI TV in 1980, she had her debut with the comic opera La serva padrona by Pergolesi. Her international career has taken her to a variety of opera theatres, singing under the direction of orchestra conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, and the Metropolitan Opera's James Levine.

Her 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[2]), then at the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo, Puccini's La fanciulla del West in Seville,[3] Manon Lescaut in Warsaw, Madama Butterfly in Hanover and Aida in Verona and Cagliari, Italy and she closed the season in Barcelona in Turandot. In January 2009 she opened the season of recital at La Scala.[4]

Repertoire

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Domenico Cimarosa

Antonio Vivaldi

Discography

Awards

References

  1. Daniela Dessì (Daniela Dessy) Biography
  2. Opera Chic: Be Kind, Rewind: Daniela Dessì gives first encore since 1956 at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
  3. Pasión y teatralidad en la voz
  4. Daniela Dessì conquista la Scala con Puccini

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