Daniela Dessì

Daniela Dessì, in 2009

Daniela Dessì (14 May 1957 – 20 August 2016) was an Italian operatic soprano, born in Genoa.[1]

Life and career

Born in Genoa, Italy, Dessì completed her studies at the Conservatory of Parma and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena. After making her operatic debut in 1979 with Savona's Teatro dell'Opera Giacosa in the comic opera La serva padrona by Pergolesi,[2] she distinguished herself the following year as a finalist at the 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 died of colon cancer at Poliambulanza Hospital in Brescia on 20 August 2016, at age 59.[8]

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

Georges Bizet

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Domenico Cimarosa

Luigi Nicolini

Jacques Offenbach

Amilcare Ponchielli

Sergej Prokofiev

Nino Rota

Antonio Salieri

Tommaso Traetta

Antonio Vivaldi

Ermanno Wolf Ferrari

Riccardo Zandonai

Discography

Awards

References

  1. "Lutto nel mondo della lirica: addio al soprano Daniela Dessì". Il Tirreno (in Italian). 21 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
  2. Karl-Josef Kutsch & Leo Riemens, Großes Sängerlexikon, Munich, Saur, 2003, p. 1132.
  3. Vittorio Emiliani, RAI: Al via Concorso Internazionale Maria Callas (5), "Adnkronos", 05.12.2000.
  4. "Daniela Dessì, 59, Most Versatile Italian Soprano of her Generation, Has Died". Opera News. August 21, 2016.
  5. "Be Kind, Rewind: Daniela Dessì Gives First Encore Since 1956 At Maggio Musicale Fiorentino". Opera Chic. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  6. Mengíbar, Andrés Moreno (March 22, 2009). "Pasión y teatralidad en la voz". www.diariodesevilla.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  7. "Archivio Corriere della Sera". archiviostorico.corriere.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  8. Italian soprano Daniela Dessi dies suddenly; (in Italian) ANSA: Morta la soprano Daniela Dessì.
  9. Archive Teatro alla Scala.
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