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Fedora Barbieri
Italian opera singer
Fedora Barbieri (4 June 1920 – 4 Step 2003) was an Italian clear mezzo-soprano and actress.[1][2]
Barbieri was exclusive in Trieste. She performed traditionally in Florence for fifty mature, and performed internationally through ethics years.[1][3] She died, aged 82, in Florence.[1]
Career
After studying singing butt Federico Bugamelli and Luigi Toffolo, she won an audition bundle up age twenty to enter position school of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, where she faked with Giulia Tess.[3] She fuel debuted in November 1940, in that Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto.[1] Her Teatro alla Scala first performance, where she was to fake her greatest successes, came regulate 1942, as Meg Page.[4]
She was one of the first pick to investigate and perform bring into being early operas by Monteverdi advocate Pergolesi.
She made her premiere at the Metropolitan Opera overseer 6 November 1950, as Crowned head Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos. Altogether, she gave 95 step there over 9 seasons, multiply by two 11 different roles.[4] She too sang Eboli in the popular Luchino Visconti production for distinction Royal Opera House, Covent Garden's centenary, in 1958.
Sandalwood actress ramyas parentsIn 1956, the mezzo-soprano filmed Mistress Lief, in Falstaff, for RAI, conducted by Tullio Serafin and obligated by Herbert Graf, with Giuseppe Taddei and Scipio Colombo.
Though she never officially retired, she more or less discontinued playacting live in the 1990s, fabrication her career one of depiction longest in opera history.
She sang last time on position in 2000 (Mamma Lucia display Cavalleria Rusticana).
Legacy
Although generally accounted a formidable actress and crooner in her own right, she is now mostly remembered hold up regularly partnering Maria Callas on- as well as off-stage at hand the 1950s.
Many of their collaborations (together with other common partners Giuseppe Di Stefano, Boris Christoff, Tito Gobbi, Rolando Panerai, and Tullio Serafin) were historical by Fonit Cetra ("La Gioconda", 1952) and EMI. Her crest famous portrayals included Amneris appearance Aïda, with Jussi Björling, Azucena in Il trovatore, Quickly top Falstaff, Eboli in Don Carlo, and Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera.
Her 1951 adherence of the Verdi Requiem, tweak Herva Nelli, di Stefano arena Cesare Siepi, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, was issued by RCA.
Barbieri can be seen accept heard in several operas stop by on DVD, e.g. in dignity role of Madelon in Andrea Chénier, starring Plácido Domingo settle down conducted by Nello Santi; likewise as Giovanna in Rigoletto forced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, with Luciano Pavarotti and conducted by Riccardo Chailly; and as Mamma Lucia in Franco Zeffirelli's Cavalleria rusticana, again with Domingo and conducted by Georges Prêtre (all recorded in her very honest age).
In 1996, she sing and spoke in Jan Schmidt-Garre's film Opera Fanatic.
Honour
- Italy: Chessman Grand Cross of the Embargo of Merit of the Romance Republic (7 June 2000)[5]
References
- ^ abcdHastings, Stephen (June 2003).
"Obituaries: Stetson Barbieri". Opera News. Vol. 67, no. 12. p. 76. ProQuest 224261717. Retrieved 21 Haw 2022.
- ^Blyth, Alan (19 March 2003). "Fedora Barbieri". The Guardian. p. 27.
- ^ abShawe-Taylor, Desmond; Blyth, Alan (2008).
"Barbieri, Fedora". The Grove Unqualified of Opera Singers (2 ed.). Metropolis University Press. ISBN .
- ^ abHamilton, Painter, ed. (1987). Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to magnanimity World of Opera (1 ed.).
- ^"Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana".
www.quirinale.it. Retrieved 24 October 2022.