Monica Bacelli
(Mezzo-Sopranos)
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Monica Bacelli
(Mezzo-Sopranos) Biography:
Monica Bacelli appears regularly in many of the world’s leading opera houses including La Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opernhaus Zurich, the Salzburg Festival, La Fenice Venice, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Real Madrid, La Monnaie Brussels, the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, and the Netherlands Opera Amsterdam. Conductors with whom she has worked in recent years include Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Sylvain Cambreling, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Sir Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Seiji Ozawa, Evelino Pidò, Trevor Pinnock, Simon Rattle, David Robertson, Christian Thielemann and Alberto Zedda. In 1997, Monica Bacelli was honoured with the prestigious Abbiati Award given by Italian music critics in recognition of her outstanding performances. Highlights of her appearances that year were Berio’s Outis at La Scala, Les Contes d’Hoffmann staged by Hugo De Ana and Così Fan Tutte conducted by Riccardo Muti, staged by Roberto De Simone at Vienna State Opera and Ravenna Festival. Her vast repertoire ranges from baroque roles through the heroines of Mozart and Rossini to twentieth century and contemporary music. She has performed Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges conducted by Seiji Ozawa, Myung-Whun Chung and Simon Rattle, and Berio's Folksongs with Berlin Philharmonic and Rattle, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and at the BBC Proms in London in 2008. Monica Bacelli has sung numerous concerts and recitals, collaborating with artists including Irwin Gage. During the 1999 Salzburg festival she performed as part of the Pollini project, Berio’s composition Altra Voce for Soprano and Flute as well as Monteverdi Madrigals accompanied by Maurizio Pollini. This concert was repeated at the Carnegie Hall in New York, in Japan and at the Accademia di S. Cecilia of Rome. Recent seasons have included her debut as Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther at the Teatro São Carlos Lisbon directed by Graham Vick, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti, Mozart’s C Minor Mass with Zubin Mehta, the title role in Handel’s Tamerlano and Idamante in Idomeneo for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (both conducted by Ivor Bolton and directed by Graham Vick), Ottavia in Monteverdi’s Poppea for the Opera National de Paris in the Palais Garnier and for the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, a new production of La Calisto also in Munich, Charlotte in Werther under Michel Plasson for the Teatro Regio Torino and, for the opening of the season at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, Idamnate in Idomeneo, conducted by Daniel Harding. In May 2006 Monica Bacelli sang Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni for the first time with Antonio Pappano with the Accademia di S. Cecilia Rome and she will repeat this role at La Scala Milan in 2006/7. Other recent engagements include Cecilio in Lucio Silla at Teatro La Fenice and the Salzburg Festival, Berio’s Altra Voce in Milan and the Wiener Konzerthaus in collaboration with Maurizio Pollini, Le Martyre de S. Sebastien by Debussy with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, La Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Regio of Turin with Roberto Abbado and directed by Graham Vick, Ruggiero in Alcina at La Scala and in May 2009 a recital at La Scala. Future plans include her role debut as Melisande at the Rome Opera. Notable among her recordings are Mozart’s La finta giardiniera conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt for TELDEC, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Zubin Metha for SONY and Luciano Berio’s Folksongs conducted by Antonio Ballista for BOTTEGA DISCANTICA. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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