Celestina Casapietra

Celestina Casapietra (born August 23, 1939 in Genoa ) is an Italian opera singer ( soprano ). It was at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin for Kammersängerin appointed.

Life

After her debut in Milan in 1963, Casapietra was the first soprano at the Berlin State Opera from 1965 to 1993 . In addition, she performed a. a. at the Milan Scala , the Vienna State Opera , the Teatro Carlo Felice Genua , the Bavarian State Opera , the Hamburg State Opera , the Bolshoi Theater Moscow and at the Salzburg Festival .

The Berlin bass-baritone Marek Kalbus is one of her best-known students .

Casapietra got to know the conductor Herbert Kegel , at that time head of the Leipzig Radio Choir and later chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic , left Italy in 1966 because of him and they both married. When she was eight months pregnant, she flew to Genoa so that her son Björn Casapietra would not be born as a GDR citizen with all the limitations of freedom of movement. In 1983 the marriage was divorced.

Celestina Casapietra was appointed a full honorary member of the European Cultural Workshop (EKW) Berlin-Vienna for her artistic life achievement in 2018.

theatre

1965: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Così fan tutte (Italian version - Fiordiligi) - Director: Erich-Alexander Winds ( Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin )
1967: Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème (Italian version - Mimi) - Director: Erhard Fischer (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin)
1971: Jules Massenet : Manon (Manon) - Director: Horst Bonnet (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin)

Discography

Umberto Giordano : Andrea Chénier (1973) with Franco Corelli and Piero Cappuccilli , Hardy Classic (DVD)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Symphonies Nos. 1-5 . Eurodisc 1990
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Missae; Requiem . Philips 1991
Carl Orff : Carmina Burana . Philips 1992
Carl Orff: Trionfi . Berlin Classics 1992
Concerto Lirico . Monopoly 1996 (classical album)
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4 . Berlin Classics 1996
Charles Gounod : Margarethe . Opera cross-section in German. Berlin Classics 1999
Richard Wagner : Tannhäuser . Gala 2005
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte . Total recording, it. / Cross sections 1x Italian / 1x German (ETERNA 1969)

She also took part in the DEFA opera film Gala Unter den Linden (GDR, 1977) and played the role of singing teacher in Arnaud des Pallières ' film Drancy Avenir (1997).

literature

KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 476 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3

Web links

Celestina Casapietra in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ Entry in Hella Brock / Christoph Kleinschmidt: Jugendlexikon Musik , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1983, publishing license No. 433–130 / 78/83, p. 66; 1938 also to Kutsch / Riemens, year of birth 1939 according to the entry in the Internet Movie Database .

personal data
SURNAME	Casapietra, Celestina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	1938 or August 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Genoa

[1] Entry in Hella Brock / Christoph Kleinschmidt: Jugendlexikon Musik , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1983, publishing license No. 433–130 / 78/83, p. 66; 1938 also to Kutsch / Riemens, year of birth 1939 according to the entry in the Internet Movie Database .