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Mara Zampieri (born 30 January 1951 in
"Mara Zampieri: A Tribute to Verdi"
''Opera Today'', 10 May 2005 * Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.)
"Mara Zampieri"
''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music'', Oxford University Press, 2007. (republished on Answers.com). * Warrack, John Hamilton and West, Ewan, "Zampieri, Mara", ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', Oxford University Press, 1996.
Mara Zampieri (born 30 January 1951 in Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
) is an Italian 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&n ...
. She trained at Padua Conservatory.
Zampieri has performed in the opera houses of Europe, including Milan, London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Vienna; also in San Francisco, New York, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. She has performed in more than fifty operatic roles, including twenty-one in operas by Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...
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She favors Italian but she also famously performed in the title role of Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...
's ''Salome
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She can be seen on video as Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy '' Macbeth'' (). As the wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes quee ...
opposite Renato Bruson
Renato Bruson (born 13 January 1936) is an Italian operatic baritone. Bruson is widely considered one of the most important Verdi baritones of the late 20th and early 21st century. He was born in Granze near Padua, Italy.
Biography and career ...
, and as Minnie in ''La fanciulla del West
''La fanciulla del West'' (''The Girl of the West'') is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by and , based on the 1905 play '' The Girl of the Golden West'' by the American author David Belasco. ''Fanciulla'' followe ...
''.
References
"Mara Zampieri: A Tribute to Verdi"
''Opera Today'', 10 May 2005 * Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.)
"Mara Zampieri"
''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music'', Oxford University Press, 2007. (republished on Answers.com). * Warrack, John Hamilton and West, Ewan, "Zampieri, Mara", ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', Oxford University Press, 1996.
External links
* Italian operatic sopranos Musicians from Padua 1951 births Living people Österreichischer Kammersänger 20th-century Italian women opera singers 21st-century Italian women opera singers {{Italy-opera-singer-stub