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.
Life and career
Anna Caterina Antonacci was born in Ferrara, Italy on April 5, 1961. She studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. In 1994, she made her Royal Opera debut as Elcia in Mosè in Egitto. She appeared there again in 2006 with Jonas Kaufman. She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012. In 2013, she appeared in La voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique. She has been married until his 2023 cancer death with water polo player Luca Giustolisi, with whom she had a son, Gillo.
Repertory
- Bellini: Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
- Berlioz: Cassandre (Les Troyens), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Cléopâtre (La mort de Cléopâtre)
- Bizet: Carmen (Carmen)
- Cherubini: Medea (Medea)
- Cimarosa:Orazia (Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi)
- Donizetti: Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda)
- Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride)
- Halévy: Rachel (La Juive)
- Handel: Agrippina (Agrippina), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), Serse (Serse)
- Manfroce: Polyxena (Ecuba)
- Massenet: Charlotte (Werther)
- Mayr: Clotilde (La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa)
- Monteverdi: both Poppea and Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
- Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Elettra (Idomeneo)
- Paisiello: Elfrida (Elfrida), Nina (Nina)
- Puccini: Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
- Rossini: Rosina (Il barbiere di siviglia), Dorliska (Torvaldo e Dorliska), Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Semiramide (Semiramide), Ermione (Ermione), Elisabetta (Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra), Elena (La donna del lago), Zelmira (Zelmira), Elcia (Mosè in Egitto), Anaï (Moïse), Angelina (La Cenerentola)
- Verdi: Flora (La traviata), both Alice Ford and Meg Page (Falstaff), Marchesa del Poggio (Un giorno di regno)
Discography
Operas
- Berlioz: Les Troyens, John Eliot Gardiner, Théâtre du Châtelet
- Bizet: Carmen, Antonio Pappano, Covent Garden
- Handel: Rodelinda, William Christie, Glyndebourne Opera
- Marschner: Hans Heiling, Renato Palumbo [it], Cagliari Opera
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Ivor Bolton, Bavarian State Opera
- Mozart: Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Gustav Kuhn, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana [it]
- Mozart: Don Giovanni, Riccardo Muti, Vienna State Opera
- Rossini: Ermione, Andrew Davis, Glyndebourne
- Verdi: Falstaff (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
- Elizabeth Forbes (2001). "Antonacci, Anna Caterina". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900150.
- "Anna Caterina Antonacci – People". The Royal Opera. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- "Anna Caterina Antonacci, Beyond Compare". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- Woolfe, Zachary (30 March 2012). "A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways". The New York Times
- "Road Show: Anna Caterina Antonacci in Paris". Opera News. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- Carrella, Franco (14 September 2023). "Pallanuoto in lutto: addio all'ex azzurro Giustolisi". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- Christiansen, Rupert, "The Callas of our time?", The Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006. Accessed 26 February 2009.
- Duchen, Jessica, "Prima Donna Autentica", Opera News, June 2011, Vol. 75, No. 12.
- Fisher, Neil, "Anna Caterina Antonacci: the riddle of the sphinx", The Times, 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, Operabase
