Roberta Invernizzi (born 1966, in

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) is an Italian soprano. She originally studied

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and

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before turning to singing. She specialises in early music from the baroque and

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. She has sung in many operas in Italy, wider Europe and the US and has made over 60 recordings. Her recording of Handel's ''Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili'' won the 2007 Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize. In January 1999 she was invited by Gustav Leonhardt to sing in the inaugural concert of the New York Collegium. Invernizzi currently teaches singing at the Centro di Musica Antica in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Discography

* Boccherini: "Stabat Mater" (Roberta Invernizzi, L'Archiburdelli, Anner Bylsma) Sony Vivarte 2003 * Handel: ''Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili'' (Roberta Invernizzi, La Risonanza,

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) Glossa Music 2006 *Handel: ''Rodrigo'' (Gloria Banditelli, Sandrine Piau, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Rufus Müller, Roberta Invernizzi, Caterina Calvi; Il Complesso Barocco; Alan Curtis, conductor) Virgin Classics 7243 5 45897 2 0 *Handel: '' Floridante'' (Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (Rossane), Roberta Invernizzi (Timante), Joyce DiDonato (Elmira), Marijana Mijanovic (Floridante), Riccardo Novaro (Coralbo), Vito Priante (Oronte), Il complesso barocco, c. Alan Curtis. Deutschegrammophon DG 00289 477 6566Reviewed by George Loomis i
''Opera Magazine''
(UK), June 2007. * Stradella: ''Moro per amore'' - Mark Beasley; Marco Lazzara; Roberta Invernizzi; Riccardo Ristori; Silvia Piccollo; Alessandro Stradella Consort; Estevan Velardi (conductor). Label: Bongiovanni GB 2153 *Stradella: ''Esule dalle sfere'' - Roberta Invernizzi; Marco Lazzara; Riccardo Ristori; Mario Nuvoli; Alessandro Stradella Consort; Estevan Velardi (conductor). Label: Bongiovanni GB 2165 * Porpora: ''Dorindo dormi ancor?'' - Rosita Frisani; Marco Lazzara; Roberta Invernizzi; Alessandro Stradella Consort; Estevan Velardi (conductor). Label: Bongiovanni GB 2181 * Gasparini: ''The Gasparini Album'' (Roberta Invernizzi,

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, Carlo Ipata) Glossa Music, GCD 922905, 2018

References

External links

Centro di Musica Antica, NaplesInterview November 18, 2011
plus portrait/discography for Glossa Music (Handel and Napoli-school related). 1966 births Living people Singers from Milan Italian operatic sopranos Italian performers of early music Women performers of early music 20th-century Italian women opera singers 21st-century Italian women opera singers {{italy-opera-singer-stub