Anna Caterina Antonacci
Anna Caterina Antonacci (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. After long performing as a mezzo-soprano, particularly the Rossini canon (but never its great contralto breeches roles), around 2005 she made the move to soprano official. Maestro Riccardo Muti has described her voice as a Falcon soprano.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Anna Caterina Antonacci was born in Ferrara, Italy on April 5, 1961.[2] She studied in Bologna and made her debut as Countess Ceprano in Verdi's Rigoletto, in 1984, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.[3] In 1994, she made her Royal Opera debut as Elcia in Mosè in Egitto.[4] She appeared there again in 2006 in Carmen opposite Jonas Kaufman.[1] In 2003 she created the role of Victoria Bearing in the world premiere of Marco Tutino's Vita at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,[5] and in 2015 that of Cesira in Tutino's Two Women (La ciociara) at the San Francisco Opera.[6] She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012.[7] In 2013, she appeared in La voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique.[8] She had been married until his death in 2023 of cancer to the water polo player Luca Giustolisi, with whom she had a son, Gillo.[9]
Repertory
[edit]- 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)
- Giramo: la pazza (La pazza)
- Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride)
- Halévy: Rachel (La Juive)
- Handel: Agrippina (Agrippina), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), Serse (Serse)
- Manfroce: Polissena (Hecuba)
- Massenet: Dulcinée (Don Quichotte), Chimène (Le Cid), Charlotte (Werther)
- Mayr: Clotilde (La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa)
- Monteverdi: Amore, Pallade, Poppea and Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
- Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Elettra (Idomeneo), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito),
- Paër: Briseide (Achille)
- Paisiello: Elfrida (Elfrida), Nina (Nina)
- Puccini: Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
- Purcell: Dido, First Witch, Sailor (Dido and Aeneas)
- 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)
- Tutino: Cesira (La ciociara), Victoria Bearing (Vita)
- Verdi: Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto), Flora (La traviata), both Alice Ford and Meg Page (Falstaff), Marchesa del Poggio (Un giorno di regno)
Discography
[edit]Operas
- Berlioz: Les Troyens, John Eliot Gardiner, Théâtre du Châtelet
- Bizet: Carmen, Antonio Pappano, Covent Garden
- Handel: Rodelinda, William Christie, Glyndebourne Opera
- Marschner: Hans Heiling, Renato Palumbo, Cagliari Opera
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Ivor Bolton, Bavarian State Opera
- Mozart: Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Gustav Kuhn, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
- Mozart: Don Giovanni, Riccardo Muti, Vienna State Opera
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Claudio Abbado, Vienna State Opera
- Rossini: Ermione, Andrew Davis, Glyndebourne
- Verdi: Falstaff (Meg Page), Riccardo Muti, La Scala
Solo
- Era La Notte/Anna Caterina Antonacci (Monteverdi, Strozzi, Giramo)
- Monteverdi, Giramo, Strozzi, Carissimi, Cesti: "Lamenti Barocchi" Sergio Vartolo, Naxos 1995
References
[edit]- 1 2 Houston, Lisa (7 March 2017). "Anna Caterina Antonacci, Beyond Compare". Classical Voice SF. San Francisco. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
- ↑ Elizabeth Forbes (2001). "Antonacci, Anna Caterina". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900150.
- ↑ "47º Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 1984 (1983-84.04M)". Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Retrieved 12 July 2026.
- ↑ "Anna Caterina Antonacci – People". The Royal Opera. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ↑ "Marco Tutino". Sipario (in Italian). Milan. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
- ↑ "Two Women". San Francisco Opera. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
- ↑ Woolfe, Zachary (30 March 2012). "A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways". The New York Times
- ↑ "Road Show: Anna Caterina Antonacci in Paris". Opera News. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ↑ Carrella, Franco (14 September 2023). "Pallanuoto in lutto: addio all'ex azzurro Giustolisi". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- Christiansen, Rupert, "The Callas of our time?", The Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006. Accessed 26 February 2009.
- Duchen, Jessica, "Prima Donna Autentica", Opera News, June 2011, Vol. 75, No. 12.
- Fisher, Neil, "Anna Caterina Antonacci: the riddle of the sphinx"[link removed], The Times, 16 January 2009. Accessed 26 February 2009.
- "Antonacci, Anna Caterina" by Elizabeth Forbes, Grove Music Online. Accessed via subscription 25 February 2009.
External links
[edit]- Anna Caterina Antonacci, Askonas Holt Artists' Management
- Interview with Antonacci by Luiz Gazzola, July 2012, Opera Lively
- Anna Caterina Antonacci, Operabase
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