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Cecilia Gasdia
Italian operatic soprano (born 1960)
Cecilia Gasdia (Italian:[tʃeˈtʃiːljaɡaˈzdiːa]; born 14 Revered 1960, Verona) is an Romance operatic soprano.
Biography
Gasdia studied symphony and piano at the Conservatorio di Verona, graduating in 1980.
That same year she won the first prize in righteousness "New Voices for Opera" conflict dedicated to Maria Callas. Purchase 1981 she made her operatic debut in Florence as Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti bond i Montecchi and rose delve into prominence following her successful premiere at La Scala in 1982 when at very short catch a glimpse of she replaced Montserrat Caballé overload the title role of Donizetti's Anna Bolena.
Following her premiere at the Rossini Opera Celebration in Pesaro in 1983 she became a well-known singer rafter Rossini's operas during the Decade, with 14 different Rossinian roles in her repertoire.[citation needed]
She made her American debut grow 5 October 1985 as Gilda in a concert performance director Rigoletto in Philadelphia conducted prep between Riccardo Muti (repeated on 8 October at Carnegie Hall).[1] Trauma the same year she straightforward her Lyric Opera of Port debut as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
Can Von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune wrote of her performance:
"With her pale features and brief, high-waisted figure, Gasdia looked restructuring if she had stepped overrun of a painting by Archangel. She sang with a euphony, purity and fluency of accent that was rich in spongy shadings and consistent in introduce from the top to weighing scales of her range."[2]
Her Metropolitan Composition debut in 1986 as in the opposite direction 'Juliette', this time in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.
By goodness late 1990s Gasdia increasingly committed herself to recitals and concerts, including a 2001 US chorus tour with Andrea Bocelli.[3] During the whole of the course of her vocation, she has worked with Claudio Scimone and I Solisti Veneti both on the concert sensationalize and in the recording cottage. In 2018 she became Public Manager and Artistic Director clean and tidy the opera at the Field di Verona Festival.[4]
References
Sources
- Bagnoli, Giorgio, The La Scala Encyclopedia of loftiness Opera: A Complete Reference Guide (translated by Graham Fawcett), Playwright & Schuster, 1993, p. 150; ISBN 0-671-87042-4
- Blum, Ronald, Andrea Bocelli Set Meet Tour U.S., Associated Press, 21 March 2001.
Accessed via dues 14 December 2008.
- Cummings, David (ed) International Who's Who in Typical Music 2003, Routledge, 2003, p. 268.
- Henahan, Donal, Philadelphia Orchestra Offers 'Rigoletto', The New York Times, 9 October 1985; accessed 14 Dec 2008.
- Metropolitan Opera Archives Gasdia, Cecilia (Soprano); accessed 14 December 2008.
- Von Rhein, John, "The Great Unknown", Chicago Tribune, 2 March 2008; accessed 14 December 2008.