Patrizia Ciofi

Patrizia Ciofi has turned into a leading soprano exponent from the main operas of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, as well as the Italian operas of Mozart. Not really that her selection of repertory is bound compared to that clutch of composers: she’s sung a huge array of functions in functions by Monteverdi (Euridice from Orfeo), Handel (Polissena from Radamisto), Vivaldi (Idaspe from Bajazet), and far else additional afield, including Bizet, Offenbach, Massenet, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Mussorgsky, and countless others. She’s also sung modern opera: her main debut arrived in Gino Negri’s Giovanni Sebastiano. It could be argued she’s sung as much different functions on main operatic phases as any soprano of her period. Her attractive tone of voice is shiny in timbre and flexible, affording her the capability to tackle a lot of functions with such satisfying character and soul. Ciofi has produced over 50 recordings, the majority of them on EMI, Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Active, and Decca. Patrizia Ciofi was created in Tuscany, Casole d’Elsa (near Siena), Italy, in 1967. She analyzed with famed Polish soprano Anastasia Tomasewska-Schepis in Siena and later on graduated from your Conservatorio Pietro Mascagni in Livorno. She went to master classes on the Accademia Chigiana in Siena led by Shirley Verrett, Carlo Bergonzi, Alberto Zedda, and Giorgio Gualerzi. After her 1989 debut at Florence (Teatro Comunale) in Negri’s Giovanni Sebastiano, she made an appearance as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a number of smaller sized Italian and international opera homes, and from 1991-1993 she made an appearance in several Verdi operas on the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, where she have scored main important successes. By 1996, when she initial sang Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, in Savona, she acquired become a increasing international superstar. She drew rave testimonials on her behalf Violetta (Verdi’s La Traviata) in 1997 at La Scala. Ciofi’s recordings had been drawing attention, as well: her 1998 Lucia (in the French edition) on Active was an enormous achievement. A string of significant debuts implemented: Opera Bastille (1999), where she sang Nanetta in Falstaff; Covent Backyard (2002), portraying Gilda (Rigoletto); Chicago (2003) as Violetta, yet others. Ciofi’s long-awaited debut on the Vienna Condition Opera didn’t arrive until 2008, when she sang Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Ciofi has already established many recordings released in ’09 2009, like the acclaimed Bel Canto Magnificent on Decca, a assortment of well-known arias by Donizetti, Rossini, and Bellini.