Anna Caterina Antonacci (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon.

Career

Antonacci studied in

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and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. In 1994, she made her Royal Opera debut as Elcia in ''

Mosè in Egitto ''Mosè in Egitto'' (; "''Moses in Egypt''") is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a 1760 play by Francesco Ringhieri, ''L'Osiride''. It premièred on 5 March 1818 a ...

''. She appeared there again in 2006 with Jonas Kaufman. She was profiled at length by ''

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'' in March 2012. In 2013, she appeared in ''

La voix humaine ' (English: ''The Human Voice'') is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. The work is based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau, who, along with French soprano Denise Duval, worked ...

'' at the Opéra-Comique.

Repertory

* Bellini: Adalgisa (''

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''), Romeo (''

I Capuleti e i Montecchi ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' (''The Capulets and the Montagues'') is an Italian opera (''Tragedia lirica'') in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of ''Romeo and Juliet'' for an opera by Nicol ...

'') * Berlioz: Cassandre ('' Les Troyens''), Marguerite (''

La damnation de Faust ''La damnation de Faust'' (English: ''The Damnation of Faust''), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a "''légende dramatique'' ...

''), Cléopâtre ('' La mort de Cléopâtre'') *

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: Carmen ('' Carmen'') * Cherubini: Medea (''

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'') * Cimarosa:Orazia ('' Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi'') *

Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the ''bel canto'' opera style duri ...

: Elisabetta (''

Maria Stuarda ''Maria Stuarda'' (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera (''tragedia lirica''), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play '' Maria Stuart''. The ope ...

'') *

Gluck Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he g ...

: Alceste ('' Alceste''), Armide ('' Armide''), Iphigénie ('' Iphigénie en Tauride'') * Halévy: Rachel ('' La Juive'') * Handel: Agrippina ('' Agrippina''), Rodelinda ('' Rodelinda''), Serse (''

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'') * Manfroce: Polyxena (''Ecuba'') *

Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are ''Manon'' (1884) ...

: Charlotte (''

Werther ''Werther'' is an opera (''drame lyrique'') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel '' Th ...

'') *

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: Clotilde (''La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa'') *

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: both Poppea and Nerone (''

L'incoronazione di Poppea ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' ( SV 308, ''The Coronation of Poppaea'') is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni ...

'') * Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella ('' Così fan tutte''), Donna Elvira ('' Don Giovanni''), Vitellia (''

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''), Elettra (''

Idomeneo ' (Italian for '' Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante''; usually referred to simply as ''Idomeneo'', K. 366) is an Italian language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a Frenc ...

'') *

Paisiello Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini. Life Paisiello was born i ...

: Elfrida (''Elfrida''), Nina ('' Nina'') *

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: Kate Pinkerton ('' Madama Butterfly'') * Rossini: Rosina (''

Il barbiere di siviglia ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( it, Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione ) is an ''opera buffa'' in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based ...

''), Dorliska (''

Torvaldo e Dorliska ''Torvaldo e Dorliska'' is an operatic dramma semiserio in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the novel/memoir ' (1787–1790) by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was t ...

''), Ninetta (''

La gazza ladra ''La gazza ladra'' (, ''The Thieving Magpie'') is a ''melodramma'' or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ''La pie voleuse'' by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caig ...

''), Semiramide (''

Semiramide ''Semiramide'' () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy ''Semiramis'', which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Feni ...

''), Ermione (''

Ermione ''Ermione'' (1819) is a tragic opera (azione tragica) in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play ''Andromaque'' by Jean Racine. Performance history 19th century ''Ermione'' was first pe ...

''), Elisabetta (''

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra ''Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra'' (; ''Elizabeth, Queen of England'') is a ''dramma per musica'' or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play ''Il paggio di Leicester'' (''Leicester's Page'') by ...

''), Elena (''

La donna del lago ''La donna del lago'' (English: ''The Lady of the Lake'') is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) based on the French translationOsborne, Charles 19 ...

''), Zelmira (''

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''), Elcia (''

''), Anaï (''Moïse''), Angelina (''

La Cenerentola ' ('' Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera ''Cendrillon'' ...

'') *

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: Flora ('' La traviata''), both Alice Ford and Meg Page (''

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''), Marchesa del Poggio (''

Un giorno di regno ''Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao'' (''A One-Day Reign, or The Pretend Stanislaus'', but often translated into English as ''King for a Day'') is an operatic '' melodramma giocoso'' in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto ...

'')

Discography

Operas * Berlioz: '' Les Troyens'',

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: '' Carmen'',

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, Covent Garden * Handel: '' Rodelinda'', William Christie,

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* Marschner: '' Hans Heiling'', , Cagliari Opera *

: ''

'',

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* Mozart: '' Così fan tutte'' (Fiordiligi),

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, * Mozart: '' Don Giovanni'',

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* Rossini: ''

'', Andrew Davis,

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: ''

'' (Meg Page), Riccardo Muti, La Scala Solo * Era La Notte/Anna Caterina Antonacci (Monteverdi, Strozzi, Giramo) * Monteverdi, Giramo, Strozzi, Carissimi, Cesti: " Lamenti Barocchi" Sergio Vartolo, Naxos 1995

References

*Jessica Duchen
"Prima Donna Autentica"
'' Opera News'', June 2011, Vol. 75, No. 12. * Christiansen, Rupert
"The Callas of our time?"
''

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'', 20 October 2006. Accessed 26 February 2009. *Fisher, Neil
"Anna Caterina Antonacci: the riddle of the sphinx"
''

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'', 16 January 2009. Accessed 26 February 2009.
"Antonacci, Anna Caterina"
by Elizabeth Forbes, '' Grove Music Online''. Accessed via subscription 25 February 2009.

External links

Anna Caterina Antonacci
Askonas Holt Artists' Management
Interview with Antonacci
by Luiz Gazzola, July 2012, Opera Lively
Anna Caterina Antonacci

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