Davinia Rodríguez

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Davinia Rodríguez (* 1980 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain ) is a Spanish opera singer ( soprano / coloratura soprano ).

Life

Davinia Rodríguez began her training at the Las Palmas Conservatory under Leopoldo Rojas O'Donell. She then studied with Teresa Berganza at the Conservatory of Reina Sofia in Madrid (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía). She also attended master classes in New York (with Martina Arroyo ) and in Modena (with Raina Kabaivanska ).

She has appeared on stage in numerous concert halls and theaters in Spain: the Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Auditorium in Tenerife . She has interpreted a whole series of operatic roles in different voices such as Despina in Così fan tutte , Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro , Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto , the Giannetta and Adina in L'elisir d'amore and the Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro .

Rodríguez has also appeared repeatedly as Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute , including at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa , the Stuttgart State Opera and at the Settimane Musicali di Stresa. In the coloratura subject she could also be heard in the title roles of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Verdi's La traviata .

Rodríguez also appeared as a lyric soprano and in operas of the early 18th and 20th centuries. In addition to Domingo and Arturo Chacón Cruz in the title roles and Roberto Tagliavini as Jacopo Loredano, she also took on the particularly demanding soprano role of Lucrezia Contarini in Verdi's I due Foscari at the Theater an der Wien . In 2016 she was there as Lady Macbeth in Verdi's opera alongside Domingo.

In addition to her presence as an opera singer, Rodríguez also appeared as an operetta and musical singer, for example in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story .

Among the conductors Davinia Rodríguez sang under are Bertrand de Billy , Jesús López Cobos , James Conlon , Plácido Domingo , Nicola Luisotti , Gianandrea Noseda , Donato Renzetti , Jeffrey Tate , Alberto Zedda and her husband Riccardo Frizza .

Role directory (selection)

  • Cimarosa - Carolina
  • Mozart - Susanna, Contessa, Zerlina, Donna Anna, Despina, Queen of the Night
  • Simon Mayr - Medea
  • Rossini - Contessa di Folleville
  • Donizetti - Lucia, Giannetta and Adina
  • Verdi - Lucrezia Contarini, Violetta, Amelia ( Ballo in Maschera ), Amelia ( Simone Boccanegra ), Lady Macbeth
  • Puccini - Musette, Liu
  • Lehár - Hanna Glawari
  • Amber - Mary
  • Torroba - Luisa Fernanda

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. This murderer sings very lightly and softly in FAZ of November 18, 2016, page 12