Diletta Rizzo Marin (born in
Vicenza
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) is an Italian operatic
mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...
admired for the quality of her voice and her skills in acting. She has appeared frequently at the
Festival Internacional de Santander
The Festival Internacional de Santander (FIS) is one of Spain's oldest music festivals. Each year, during the month of August it presents two to three operas as well as performances from visiting ballet and theatre companies, solo recitals, and ch ...
.
Biography
Diletta Rizzo Marin was born into a family of musicians. Her father,
Roberto Scandiuzzi
Roberto Scandiuzzi (born 14 July 1958) is an Italian opera singer noted for his powerful, sonorous bass voice and stage presence. Blyth, Alan (2008)"Scandiuzzi, Roberto" pp. 427–428. ''The Grove Book of Opera Singers''. Oxford University Press.
...
, is also an opera singer. She studied piano and she received her
laurea
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in theatrical performance from
L'Università Ca' Foscari in Venice.
Her official debut was in July 2004 in a solo recital at the 53rd Festival Internacional de Santander. She returned to the Festival again in 2005 appearing in a concert with Roberto Scandiuzzi, the
Coral Salvé de Laredo, and the Orchestra 900 del
Teatro Regio di Torino
The Teatro Regio (Royal Theatre) is a prominent opera house and opera company in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. Its season runs from October to June with the presentation of eight or nine operas given from five to twelve performances of each.
Several bu ...
. The live recording of the concert was issued by the
RTVE
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-Música label in February 2006. (A further performance of the concert took place at the Festival de
Úbeda
Úbeda (; from Iberian ''Ibiut'') is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with 34,733 (data 2017) inhabitants. Both this city and the neighbouring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the ...
in June 2007.) Her most recent appearance at the Festival Santander was in August 2007 when she sang the leading role of Amina in a production of
Bellini's ''
La sonnambula
''La sonnambula'' (''The Sleepwalker'') is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the '' bel canto'' tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ''ballet-pantomime'' written by Eug ...
'' directed by
Hugo de Ana.
Rizzo Marin is a university representative for
UNICEF
UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Devel ...
Italia and appears in benefit concerts for the organization, the most notable of which was a Gala at the
Teatro Comunale di Treviso on 6 January 2007 with Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luciana D'Intino and Roberto Frontali. The gala, in aid of UNICEF's project to reduce infant mortality in
Tajikistan
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, also celebrated the 25th anniversary of Scandiuzzi's stage debut.
In 2008 she made her French debut in the role of Lucietta from ''
I quattro rusteghi
''I quatro rusteghi'' (''The Four Curmudgeons'', ''The Four Ruffians'', in Edward J. Dent's translation ''School for Fathers'', also translated by James Benner as ''Foolish Fathers'' ) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrar ...
'' at the
Théâtre du Capitole
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in
Toulouse
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and sang the role of Lisette in
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long lin ...
's ''
La rondine
''La rondine'' (''The Swallow'') is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtr ...
'' with
Opéra de Nice
The Opéra de Nice is the principal opera venue in Nice, France, which houses the Ballet Nice Méditerrannée and the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. It offers three types of performances: operas, ballets and classical music concerts.
History
The ...
.
In the 2011/2012 season she sang at the
Teatro Verdi Teatro Verdi may refer to:
* Teatro Verdi (Brindisi), Brindisi
* Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto
* Teatro Verdi (Florence), Florence
* Teatro Verdi (Padova), Padova, by architect Achille Sfondrini
* Teatro Verdi (Pisa), Pisa
* Teatro Verdi (S ...
in Trieste for the first time as Lauretta in ''Gianni Schicchi'' and Monica in ''
The Medium
''The Medium'' is a short (one-hour-long) two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946. The opera's first profes ...
'' and returned there to sing Musetta in ''
La bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions ''quadri'', ''tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G ...
''. In Bari she sang Euridice in a concert performance of Gluck's ''
Orfeo ed Euridice
' (; French: '; English: ''Orpheus and Eurydice'') is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on Orpheus, the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the ''azione teatrale'', mea ...
''. She sang at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari in a double bill of
Nino Rota
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...
's operas ''La notte di un nevrastenico'' (as Lei) and ''I due timidi'' (as Mariuccia)' She made her Latin American debut that season as Xenia in a production of ''
Boris Godunov
Borís Fyodorovich Godunóv (; russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 1552 ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia as ''de facto'' regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. After the end of his ...
'' at the Teatro Municipal in
Santiago, Chile
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. She also sang in the Rossini's ''Stabat Mater'' at the Rudolfinum in Prague and in recitals at the Musashino Cultural Center in Tokyo.
Recording
''Le Plaisir Du Chant'' Songs by Purcell, Handel, Mozart, Faurè, Granados, Serrano (Diletta Rizzo Marin, Soprano; Alberto Boischio, Piano). Velut Luna CVLD157.
References
*Cosme Marina
Postales románticas(Review of ''La sonnambula'', Festival Internacional de Santander, 2007), ''
ABC
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'', 9 August 2007.
Per la giovane soprano Diletta Rizzo Marin la ribalta di Tolosa nell'opera "I quattro rusteghi" ''Il Gazzettino'', 3 January 2008.
External links
Official web site* Luis G.Ibern
Diletta Rizzo Marin y Ainhoa Garmendia, duelo en el Cantábrico(Interview), ''El Cultural'', 26 July 2007.
Video of Rizzo Marin singing "Care Compagne" from ''La sonnambula'' Festival Internacional de Santander, August 2007.
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Living people
People from Treviso
Italian operatic mezzo-sopranos
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Italian women opera singers