Mariangela Sicilia - Adina
One of the
most up-and-coming Italian sopranos of her generation, she won the Tito Schipa
lyric contest in Lecce, for L’Elisir d’amore. Mariangela Sicilia was
lately appreciated as Vivetta in Cilea’s L’Arlesiana both at the Wexford
Festival Opera and at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi for the opening night of the
season. Ms Sicilia also
performed Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; L’Italiana
in Algeri and La Donna del Lago and Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini
Opera Festival in Pesaro; Orfeo ed Euridice in New York; L’Elisir
d’Amore in Madrid; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Ravenna and Tel Aviv
(broadcast by the Italian National Television); La Pietra del Paragone in
Paris, Jean Christophe Spinosi conducting.
Future
plans: L’Elisir
d’Amore in Brussels; La Bohème (Musetta) and Adriana Lecouvreur at
the Opéra National de Paris; Guillaume Tell at the Teatro Comunale in
Bologna; Battistelli’s Il Medico dei Pazzi (world première) in Nancy;
Petite Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Alberto Zedda.
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