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Amarilli Nizza
Amarilli Nizza (born January 4, 1971) is an Italian operatic soprano. Early life and education Nizza was born in Milan. She is a great-great-granddaughter of the soprano Medea Figner. (Figner was also the poetical inspiration of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who composed for her and her husband, the tenor Nikolai Figner, '' The Queen of Spades (opera)'' (1890) and ''Iolanta'' (1892)). From childhood, she studied piano and singing with her grandmother Claudia Biadi. In 1993 she won the competition Mattia Battistini and debuted in ''Madama Butterfly'' (as Cio-Cio-San) by Puccini at Teatro Flavio Vespasiano in Rieti. After a series of earlyexperiences, in 2001 Amarilli Nizza started to be internationally in the spotlight by performing mainly the great Italian opera repertoire. Career She was Giorgetta in ''Il tabarro'' at Teatro dell'Opera in Rome in 2002, in 2003 Francesca in ''Francesca da Rimini'', in 2005 ''Thaïs'' (opera), in 2006 Micaela in ''Carmen'' (opera), in 2008 ''Madama ...
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Operatic Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261  Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word '' sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano"
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Gianluca Martinenghi
Gianluca Martinenghi is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Music director of Macedonian National Theatre. Currently he is the Artistic Secretary of Teatro Reggio in Turin, Italy, Early life and background Gianluca Martinenghi used to go learning piano and composition with Piero Rattalino and Bruno Bettinelli respectively. Accompanying with Donato Renzetti and Giacomo Zani, he began studying orchestral conducting later. In association with Teatro Massimo he worked as a conductor. He worked as a musicologist writer and was published at specialized magazines for piano review especially in ''Musica'', ''Piano Time'' and ''Symphonia''. At that time he began working in Teatro regio di torino as a répétiteur, that led him to the operatic repertoire, being an assistant to accomplished musicians for example Yuri Ahronovitch and Gianandrea Gavazzeni. In the first part of his career, he executed several symphonic concerts and contemporary 2 ...
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Singers From Milan
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Italian Operatic Sopranos
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1971 Births
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Nicolas Joel
Nicolas Joel or Joël (6 February 195318 June 2020) was a French opera director and administrator of opera houses. He was general manager of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse from 1990 to 2009 and of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014. He directed operas internationally. Career Joel was born in Paris, where he studied. In 1973, he was hired by the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg as assistant director and remained until 1978. In 1976, Patrice Chéreau brought him in as an assistant for the production of the ''Jahrhundertring'' for the centenary of the Bayreuth Festival. In 1979, he began his own directing career with a production of Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' for the Opéra du Rhin and the Opéra de Lyon. In 1981, he directed ''Samson et Dalila'' at the San Francisco Opera, with Shirley Verrett and Plácido Domingo in the leading roles, and Verdi's ''Aida'' at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with Luciano Pavarotti. He directed a second ''Ring'' for the Hessisches Staatsth ...
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Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini (; ; March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–54), and this led to his becoming a household name (especially in the United States) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. Biography Early years Toscanini was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, and won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, where he studied the cello. Living conditions at the conservatory were harsh and strict. For example, the menu at the conservatory consisted almost entirely of fish; in his later years, ...
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Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ...
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Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ...
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Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provinces. Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste, on a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia; Slovenia lies approximately east and southeast of the city, while Croatia is about to the south of the city. The city has a long coastline and is surrounded by grassland, forest, and karstic areas. The city has a subtropical climate, unusual in relation to its relatively high latitude, due to marine breezes. In 2022, it had a population of about 204,302. Capital of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and previously capital of the Province of Trieste, until its abolition on 1 October 2017. Trieste belonged to the Habsburg monarchy from 1382 until 1918. In the 19th century the mon ...
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Rome
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