FULL operaclassica: Serena interviews Daniela Barcellona Italy 2023

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: operaclassica: Serena interviews Daniela Barcellona  
• Composer: N/A  
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• Venue & Opera Company: Italy  
• Recorded: May 12, 2023
• Type: Other
• Singers: Daniela Barcellona
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Information about the Recording

• Published by: Sery Operaclassica  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs, gensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

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Daniela Barcellona (Trieste, March 28, 1969) is an Italian mezzo-soprano.
She is a specialist in bel canto and Rossini’s serious repertoire, she has sung on stage almost all the “en travesti” roles of the composer from Pesaro. You have also tackled some roles from the Baroque repertoire and recorded opera arias by Domenico Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. For some years she has also dedicated herself to the interpretation of Verdi roles (Amneris, Quickly, Eboli, Ulrica), of the French grand opéra (Samson et Dalila) and of the verismo repertoire (Princess of Bouillon and Santuzza).

Born in Trieste to a Sicilian father and a Trieste mother, she studied piano passing exams at the Conservatory of her city and subsequently concentrated on the study of singing with Alessandro Vitiello, concert pianist and conductor, with whom she started an artistic and then sentimental from the beginning of the 90s, marrying him in 1998 . Since then Vitiello has been the only master of vocal technique and is the author of all the musical variations of the bel canto parts interpreted by her wife.

Her official debut dates back to August 25, 1993 as the protagonist in La Tragédie de Carmen, Peter Brook’s reinterpretation of Bizet’s masterpiece, at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” of Spoleto, after winning the competition for singers of the same city. She began her career as a supporting actress in minor theaters and in numerous international festivals (Klagenfurt, Wexford, Pesaro, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), then adding more significant roles: Cinderella in the second cast in Genoa in 1997, Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia still in the second company at the Scala in 1998, Arsace in Semiramide in Geneva in 1998, winning in the meantime the “Iris Adami Corradetti” competition in Padua and the “Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition” in Philadelphia.

The turning point came on August 8, 1999 when, for the first time, he played the role of Tancredi at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, establishing himself since then as a reference interpreter of the “en travesti” roles, which see her as the protagonist of the most prestigious theaters in the world, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, from the Royal Opera House in London to the Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris, from the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich to the Teatro Real in Madrid , from the Salzburg Festival to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, just to name a few.

The beginning of the 2000s coincides for Daniela Barcellona with the beginning of her international career. In 2001 she sang in Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Claudio Abbado in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker on the centenary of the composer’s death from Busseto and in the same year she made her debut in New York: in the dramatic days following the infamous attack on the World Trade Center she was busy in the inauguration of the Metropolitan Opera House Season with a Verdi Gala and, shortly after, sang Adalgisa alongside Jane Eaglen’s Norma. In 2002 she inaugurated the Teatro alla Scala Season directed by Riccardo Muti and since then the maestro will have her with him on several occasions in the Milanese theater, in Salzburg, at the Ravenna Festival, in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Her career in this period remains firmly anchored in the name of Gioachino Rossini with numerous debuts at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro: Malcom (2001), Falliero (2005), Ottone (2006), Calbo (2008), Sigismondo (2010) . There are, however, incursions into the Baroque repertoire as early as 2000 in Jesi with Orfeo ed Euridice, in Bologna in 2003 with Giulio Cesare conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini and in Lecce with Rinaldo conducted by Fabio Pirona and then by Ottavio Dantone in 2005 at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan; then followed by some performances of Bajazet (already debuted in 1999 in Istanbul) with Fabio Biondi’s Europa Galante ensembles in 2006 in Japan and in Venice. At the same time she dedicates herself to the Donizetti repertoire with Giovanna Seymour, Leonor de La Favorite debuted with Giuseppe Filianoti in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; returns to La Scala in Lucrezia Borgia together with Mariella Devia and Marcelo Alvarez and plays Bellini’s two most significant mezzo-sopranile characters on several occasions: Adalgisa (also sung alongside June Anderson’s Norma) and Romeo from I Capuleti e i Montecchi (among others with the Anna Netrebko’s Juliet at the Salzburg Festival).

Since 2009 Daniela Barcellona’s repertoire begins to expand. Within a few years she made her debut: Amneris (Aida) in Valencia conducted by Lorin Maazel (a role she then reprized at the Arena di Verona, at the Opéra National de Paris, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, in Salzburg); Didon in Les Troyens conducted by Valerij Gergiev (also sung in 2011 and 2012 in Berlin and in 2014 at the Teatro alla Scala conducted by Antonio Pappano); the Princess of Eboli from Verdi’s Don Carlo (in Turin and in Paris with Gianandrea Noseda), Mrs Quickly from Falstaff (at the Teatro alla Scala, at the Opéra de Paris, in Chicago); the Princess of Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur) in Brussels directed by Evelino Pidò; Dalila (next to Gregory Kunde’s Samson in Turin) and Santuzza della Cavalleria Rusticana (also debuted with Gregory Kunde in Bilbao and revived in Berlin).

During this period, however, she continued to play Rossini’s “en travesti” roles that made her famous: Malcom (La donna del lago) at the Teatro alla Scala, at the Opéra national de Paris, at the Royal Opera House, at the Metropolitan Opera House from New York; Tancredi again at the Rossini Opera Festival (in concert form), in Valencia and Marseille, Arsace (Semiramide) at the Royal Opera House, at the Royal Albert Hall and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

In 2017 she returned to sing with maestro Riccardo Muti for a performance of Aida at the Salzburg Festival.

Among the various awards and recognitions received throughout her career, in April 2018 she won the Laurence Olivier Award together with Joyce DiDonato in the “Outstanding Achievement in Opera” category for Semiramide during the awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London.