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Veronica Cangemi - soprano
Born in Mendoza (Argentina), Veronica Cangemi is one of the most versatile sopranos
on the music scene today. After starting her career as a cellist, she won the first
prize at the National Singing Contest in Argentina, followed by a European debut
with Gluck’s Armide with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens Du Louvre.
Much in demand in both the baroque and classical repertoire, she performed in operas
by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck and Haydn. Among her most
notable appearances in the baroque repertoire: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (in Graz
with Giovanni Antonini) and L’incoronazione di Poppea (title role - with
Ivor Bolton in Florence); Cavalli’s Ercole amante (with Ivor Bolton in Amsterdam);
Scarlatti’s La Griselda (with René Jacobs in Innsbruck and Berlin); Handel’s
Ariodante (Dalinda and Ginevra - with Marc Minkowski in Munich, then in San
Francisco and Oviedo), Rinaldo (Armida - with Ivor Bolton in Munich), Alcina
(Morgana - with Ivor Bolton in Munich and with Marc Minkowski at the Wiener
Staatsoper), Serse (Atalanta and Romilda - with Ivor Bolton in Munich), Giulio
Cesare (Cleopatra - with René Jacobs at the Theater an der Wien), Orlando
(Dorinda - with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Ensemble Matheus), Agrippina
(Poppea - with Fabio Biondi in Venice), Messiah (with Jean-Christophe Spinosi
in Nancy); Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa (Cleonilla - with Giovanni Antonini
in Innsbruck) and Orlando furioso (Angelica - with Jean-Christophe Spinosi);
Traetta’s Antigona (title role - with René Jacobs in Berlin); Gluck’s Iphigenie
en Aulide (title role - with Ivor Bolton in Glyndebourne) and Orfeo ed Euridice
(Euridice - with René Jacobs and the Freiburger Barockorchester); Haydn’s
Armida (title role - with Andreas Spering and Capella Augustina).
Mozart operas play an important part in her activity and she appeared in such roles
as: Ilia in Idomeneo (Antwerp, Lyon and Buenos Aires), Susanna and
Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro (Lyon, Washington and Paris), Zerlina
in Don Giovanni (Milan, Florence, Washington, Lacoste and Buenos Aires),
Despina and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (Montpellier, Munich, Paris and
Bari), Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Buenos Aires).
Veronica Cangemi’s foray into the romantic repertoire includes: Beethoven’s
Fidelio (Marzelline - Rome Opera), Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella
(Estrella - in Vienna), Bizet’s Carmen (Micaëla - in Tokyo and at the Covent
Garden in London), Puccini’s La Bohème (Musetta and Mimì - in Dresden and
Tokyo).
Widely active in concert, some of her most notable appearances are: Pergolesi’s
Messa di S. Emidio (Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado), Haydn’s Die Schöpfung
(Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic / Adam Fischer), Faure’s Requiem
(Berliner Philharmoniker / Marc Minkowski), Mahler’s Symphony no.4 (Deutsche
Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin / Marek Janowski).
Among her recent and future engagements: Handel’s Orlando (Dorinda) with
Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Toulouse, Versailles and Rennes; Carmen (Micaëla)
at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London under Daniel Oren; Idomeneo
(Ilia) at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; several concerts throughout Europe,
including Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale
della Rai under Juraj Valčuha and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Sara Mingardo
in Istanbul.
Veronica Cangemi’s extensive discography includes: Handel’s Ariodante and
Caldara’s La concordia de’ pianeti (Archiv), Scarlatti’s Griselda
and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Harmonia Mundi), Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso,
Ottone in Villa, Griselda, La fida ninfa and a solo album (Naïve), Richard
Strauss’ Der Bürger als Edelmann and Handel’s Fernando (Virgin Classics). The following productions were also released
as DVDs: Lucio Silla (Deutsche Grammophon), Alcina (Arthaus), Ercole
amante and Deidamia (Opus Arte).
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