Katia Ricciarelli

Katia Ricciarelli

Katia Ricciarelli (born January 16, 1946) is an Italian soprano.

Biography

Born at Rovigo, Veneto to a very poor family, she struggled during her younger years when she studied music.

She studied at the Benedict Marcello conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in "La bohème" in Mantua in 1969, followed by a 1970 appearance in "Il trovatore" in Parma. In the following year, she won RAI’s “Voci Verdiane” award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses, including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); La Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening her repertoire of Rossini’s operas.

Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Verdi's "Otello" in 1986, alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film journalists, for her role in Pupi Avati’s "La seconda notte di nozze".

In 1991 she founded "Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli", and, since 2003, she has been Artistic Director of the annual summer Macerata Opera Festival. In 2006 she participated in the reality show "La fattoria" (Italian version of "The Farm") on Canale 5.

She married Pippo Baudo, a television personality, on her 40th birthday, but filed for divorce in the summer of 2004.

Discography

* "Simon Boccanegra" (1973)
* "Un ballo in maschera" (with Plácido Domingo in 1975)
* "La bohème" (1979)
* "Luisa Miller" (1979)
* "Il trovatore" (with José Carreras and Stefania Toczyska, 1980)
* "Aida" (1981)
* "Turandot" (under Herbert von Karajan, 1981)
* "Carmen" (1982)
* "Falstaff" (1982)
* "Liù" (1983)
* "Don Carlos" (with Placido Domingo, 1983-84)
* "L'elisir d'amore" (1984)
* "Otello" (1986)
* Bellini’s "Messa nº 2 in G Minor" and "Giuseppe Geremia’s Missa Pro Defunctis 1809" (with Salvatore Fisichella, 1997)

Media

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12vkwIvy_Y Katia sings Catalani's "La Wally". Video from youtube. ]


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