Diletta Rizzo Marin (born in Vicenza) is an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano admired for the quality of her voice and her skills in acting. She has appeared frequently at the Festival Internacional de Santander.
Biography
Diletta Rizzo Marin was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Roberto Scandiuzzi, is also an opera singer. She studied piano and she received her laurea in theatrical performance from L'Università Ca' Foscari in Venice.
Her official debut was in July 2004 in a solo recital at the 53rd Festival Internacional de Santander. She returned to the Festival again in 2005 appearing in a concert with Roberto Scandiuzzi, the Coral Salvé de Laredo, and the Orchestra 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino. The live recording of the concert was issued by the RTVE-Música label in February 2006. (A further performance of the concert took place at the Festival de Úbeda in June 2007.) Her most recent appearance at the Festival Santander was in August 2007 when she sang the leading role of Amina in a production of Bellini's La sonnambula directed by Hugo de Ana.
Rizzo Marin is a university representative for UNICEF Italia and appears in benefit concerts for the organization, the most notable of which was a Gala at the Teatro Comunale di Treviso on 6 January 2007 with Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luciana D'Intino and Roberto Frontali. The gala, in aid of UNICEF's project to reduce infant mortality in Tajikistan, also celebrated the 25th anniversary of Scandiuzzi's stage debut.
In 2008 she made her French debut in the role of Lucietta from I quattro rusteghi at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and sang the role of Lisette in Puccini's La rondine with Opéra de Nice.
In the 2011/2012 season she sang at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste for the first time as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Monica in The Medium and returned there to sing Musetta in La bohème. In Bari she sang Euridice in a concert performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. She sang at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari in a double bill of Nino Rota's operas La notte di un nevrastenico (as Lei) and I due timidi (as Mariuccia)' She made her Latin American debut that season as Xenia in a production of Boris Godunov at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile. She also sang in the Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Rudolfinum in Prague and in recitals at the Musashino Cultural Center in Tokyo.
Recording
Le Plaisir Du Chant Songs by Purcell, Handel, Mozart, Faurè, Granados, Serrano (Diletta Rizzo Marin, Soprano; Alberto Boischio, Piano). Velut Luna CVLD157.
References
- Guacimara Castrillo, La niña bonita del 'bel canto' (Review of La sonnambula, Festival Internacional de Santander, 2007), El Mundo, 3 August 2007
- Enrique Franco, Una nueva estrella lírica (Review of Rizzo Marin's debut recital at the Festival Santander, 2004), El País, 23 August 2004
- Filinii, Elena (29 December 2012). "Roberto Scandiuzzi, la nobiltà del basso!. Il Corriere Musicale. Retrieved 30 March 2016 (in Italian).
- El sello RTVE-Música edita el CD "Festival Internacional de Santander. Volumen 8", RTVE, 1 February 2006
- Programme notes Archived 10 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Festival de Úbeda, 2 June 2007
- UNICEF Italia Archived 27 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- "Velut Luna Catalogue". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
- Cosme Marina, Postales románticas (Review of La sonnambula, Festival Internacional de Santander, 2007), ABC, 9 August 2007.
- Per la giovane soprano Diletta Rizzo Marin la ribalta di Tolosa nell'opera "I quattro rusteghi", Il Gazzettino, 3 January 2008.
External links
- Official web site
- Luis G.Iberni Diletta Rizzo Marin y Ainhoa Garmendia, duelo en el Cantábrico (Interview), El Cultural, 26 July 2007.
- Video of Rizzo Marin singing "Care Compagne" from La sonnambula, Festival Internacional de Santander, August 2007.