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| '''Maria Antonietta Stella''' (15 March 1929 – 23 February 2022) was an Italian operatic ], one of the |
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| Stella, like other artists of the period, was somewhat eclipsed by the competition between ] and ], but she had a significant career of her own and left several recordings, including of works such as Donizetti's '']'', Meyerbeer's '']'', and Verdi's '']'' and '']''. She appeared in an Italian television production of ''Andrea Chénier'', opposite ] and ] in 1955, since released on DVD. She can also be heard on an Italian radio broadcast of ]'s rarely performed work '']'', opposite ], released on CD.<ref name="Kutsch/Riemens" /> | Stella, like other artists of the period, was somewhat eclipsed by the competition between ] and ], but she had a significant career of her own and left several recordings, including of works such as Donizetti's '']'', Meyerbeer's '']'', and Verdi's '']'' and '']''. She appeared in an Italian television production of ''Andrea Chénier'', opposite ] and ] in 1955, since released on DVD. She can also be heard on an Italian radio broadcast of ]'s rarely performed work '']'', opposite ], released on CD.<ref name="Kutsch/Riemens" /> | ||
| Stella died on 23 February 2022 at age 92.<ref> operawire.com</ref> | Stella died on 23 February 2022, at the age of 92.<ref> operawire.com</ref> | ||
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Italian operatic soprano| Antonietta Stella | |
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 Stella in the 1960s | |
| Born | Maria Antonietta Stella (1929-03-15)15 March 1929 Perugia, Italy |
| Died | 23 February 2022(2022-02-23) (aged 92) |
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| Occupation | Operatic soprano |
Maria Antonietta Stella (15 March 1929 – 23 February 2022) was an Italian operatic soprano, and one of the most prominent Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini roles.
Life and career
Born in Perugia, Stella studied at the Conservatory of Perugia and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and made her debut in Spoleto, as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, in 1950. She appeared at the Rome Opera in 1951, as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino. She quickly sang throughout Italy: Florence, Naples, Parma, Turin, Catania, Verona, Venice, among others. She made La Scala debut in 1954 as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, where she then sang regularly to great acclaim until 1963, in Verdi roles such as Violetta in La traviata, Elisabetta in Don Carlos, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, and the title roles in Aida, as Puccini's Tosca, Mimi in La bohème and Madama Butterfly, and as Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier.
In 1955, she made her debuts at the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Palais Garnier in Paris, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the following year, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she successfully sang until 1960. In 1958 she had a particular success in a new Metropolitan production of Madama Butterfly designed in the manner of Japanese woodblock prints. Her assimilation of Japanese physicality and gesture was particularly praised. Her Leonore in Il trovatore was also presented in a new production at the Metropolitan to public and critical acclaim. Stella was an elegant, glamorous figure on stage and an accomplished actress.
Stella, like other artists of the period, was somewhat eclipsed by the competition between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, but she had a significant career of her own and left several recordings, including of works such as Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, and Verdi's La battaglia di Legnano and Simon Boccanegra. She appeared in an Italian television production of Andrea Chénier, opposite Mario del Monaco and Giuseppe Taddei in 1955, since released on DVD. She can also be heard on an Italian radio broadcast of Spontini's rarely performed work Agnes von Hohenstaufen, opposite Montserrat Caballé, released on CD.
Stella died on 23 February 2022, at the age of 92.
Recordings
- Donizetti - Linda di Chamounix - Tullio Serafin (Philips, 1956)
- Verdi - Il trovatore - Serafin (DG, 1962)
- Verdi - La traviata - Serafin (EMI, 1955)
- Verdi - Un ballo in maschera - Gianandrea Gavazzeni (DG, 1960)
- Verdi - Don Carlo - Gabriele Santini (EMI, 1954)
- Verdi - Don Carlo - Santini (DG, 1961)
- Verdi - Simon Boccanegra - Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Cetra, 1951)
- Giordano - Andrea Chénier - Santini (EMI, 1963)
- Puccini - La bohème - Molinari-Pradelli (Philips, 1957)
- Puccini - Tosca - Serafin (Philips, 1957)
References
- ^ Kutsch, K. J.; Riemens, Leo (2012). Stella, Antonietta (in German) (4th ed.). De Gruyter. pp. 4524–4525. ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5.
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