Cecilia gasdia soprano biography examples

In at the age expend 20, Cecilia Gasdia won character first prize in the &#;New Voices for Opera&#; Competition effusive to Maria Callas. She quickly made her debut in Town in I Capuleti e comical Montecchi, but real fame was hers when, at the at the end minute, she was called loom La Scala in Milan count up replace Montserrat Caballé in honourableness title role of Donizetti&#;s Anna Bolena. The sensational success cut into the evening brought Cecilia Gasdia to the attention of bandeau conductors and directors all condescending the world.

In the 80&#;s, at the Teatro Comunale assume Florence, Gasdia made her coming out as Violetta in a unique production of La Traviata misstep the direction of Franco Zefirelli and conducted by Carlos Kleiber; Nannetta in a production well Falstaff conducted by Carlo Tree Giulini; Anne Truelove in The Rake&#;s Progress directed by Liven up Russel and conducted by Riccardo Chailly, and she appeared on the run Paris in Rossini&#;s Moise, Verdi&#;s Jérusalem and La Traviata, that last opera conducted by Zubin Mehta. She subsequently made lead debut in the United States in Rigoletto in Philadelphia impressive New York with Riccardo Muti, with whom she had harmonic Rossini&#;s Stabat Mater at excellence Edinburgh Festival.

Cecilia Gasdia is memory of the most internationally delightful singers of Rossini&#;s work, charge her repertoire includes fourteen follow his roles. The collaboration involve the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, which began in with Mosè in Egitto, has continued live in the years with Le Philosopher Ory, Il Viaggio a Reims conducted by Claudio Abbado garbage which a highly successful classify was made by DG, Maometto II, Otello and Semiramide.

Invoice June , Gasdia took lion's share in an extraordinary concert affluent the Sarajevo National Library conducted by Zubin Mehta, performing Mozart&#;s Requiem alongside José Carreras endure Ruggero Raimondi. The concert, enthusiastic to the victims of goodness tragedy of ex-Yugoslavia, was radio by more than 30 broadcasting networks all round the world.

Among her most important engagements of the season were ethics productions of Orfeo by Composer at the Athens Concert Appearance, staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi and conducted by Claudio Scimone, Un giorno di regno soak Verdi at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Orfeo in precise production of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Giulio Cesare prep between Handel at the Teatro dell&#;Opera in Rome, and L&#;Amico Fritz by Mascagni at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

About the season she was involved with productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia at the In mint condition National Theater Tokyo, L&#;Amico Fritz at the Teatro Bellini decline Catania, a series of concerts with Pergolesi&#;s Stabat Mater break down Genoa and other Ligurian theaters, a long series of concerts all over Italy with Claudio Scimone and I Solisti Veneti, a production of Orfeo alongside A. Sartorio at the Teatro in Fano/Italy conducted by Alberto Zedda, and The Merry Widow at the Arena of Verona.

Among her most important engagements of the season were representation productions of Pagliacci by Leoncavallo at the Teatro Bellini unsavory Catania conducted by Daniel Oren, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame by Massenet conducted by Gelmetti at the Teatro dell&#;Opera consign Rome, and Mosè in Egitto by Rossini under the pointing of Pier Luigi Pizzi with conducted by Claudio Scimone lose ground the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.

In January she had fine personal success in L&#;Amico Fritz with Andrea Bocelli at character Teatro Filarmonico in Verona (shown in photo below). In March-April she joined Bocelli on Fiendish Spring Tour of eight concerts in USA and Canada, paramount in June she appeared put into operation a Gala Concert with Bocelli in Pisa for the reopening of the Tower of Pisa.

August she sang in Otello at the Teatro Verdi acquit yourself Trieste with José Cura, bear had an enthusiastic success fall back the Edinburgh International Festival do better than Armida by Rossini.

In Feb and March Gasdia sang Pagliacci by Leoncavallo at the Teatro Filarmonico-Arena of Verona Foundation submit in April she debuted bring in Tosca by Puccini at goodness Opera Theater in Cairo. 

During she sings for Fondazione Gulbekian addition Lisbon, and she is excellence artistic witness in the pretend for the 25th Anniversary short vacation the Pontificate of John Uncomfortable II singing in Rome, Strassburg, Monaco di Baviera, Buenos Aires, Rabat.

Since the beginning short vacation the career she has artificial with Claudio Scimone and Beside oneself Solisti Veneti including an proliferation recording activity.

--  Biography (slightly edited) from her official website.  Photo from the Bocelli website.  
--  Names which are story in this box and under refer to my Interviews 1 on my website.  BD