Gabriella Tucci

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Gabriella Tucci (born August 4, 1929 in Rome ; † July 9 or 11, 2020 there ) was an Italian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Beginnings

Gabriella Tucci first studied singing at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in her hometown of Rome before she became a student of the singing teacher Leonardo Fuloni, whom she later married. She made her semi-professional operatic debut in 1951 at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca as Violetta in La Traviata . In 1952 she won the “International Singing Competition for New Voices” in Spoleto and then made her professional debut as an opera singer at the Teatro Sperimentale di Spoleto with the role of Leonora in La forza del destino alongside Beniamino Gigli .

Career in Italy

After this artistic breakthrough, Tucci's very successful career began at the major Italian opera houses, in particular at the Rome Opera and La Scala in Milan . In 1953 she sang Glauce in Medea alongside Maria Callas as part of the Maggio Musicale in Florence . In 1959 she made her debut as Mimì at La Scala in Milan, where she appeared as Micaëla from 1959 to 1960, as Desdemona in 1960 , as Madama Butterfly in 1961 and as Alice Ford in Falstaff, and in 1965 as Aida and Amelia in Simone Boccanegra . In 1961 she sang Helena at the Italian premiere of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at La Scala in Milan . During the guest performance of La Scala in Moscow in 1964 , she sang Liù in Turandot and Troubadour -Leonore.

Tucci also sang in Italy at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna , at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo , at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania , at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , at performances in the Caracalla Baths and several times in the Arena di Verona (1959, 1961, 1963-64, 1969).

International career

In 1955 she went on a tour to Australia . In 1959 she made her debut in Great Britain at the Adelphi Theater in London in the role of Mimì . In 1960 she appeared at the Covent Garden Opera House as Aida and Tosca .

She performed in Europe at the Bavarian State Opera (1960), at the Vienna State Opera (1962-63, in a total of eleven performances as Traviata, Desdemona, Aida, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier and as Butterfly), at the Monte Carlo Opera House and in Oslo .

She made her US debut in 1959 as Maddalena in Andrea Chénier at the San Francisco Opera , where she also appeared as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and as Desdemona.

In October 1960 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Carlo Bergonzi as Butterfly. Until 1972 she sang a total of twenty roles in 13 seasons in 259 performances. a. Aida, Mimì, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , Maddalena in Andrea Chénier , Desdemona, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera and in Simone Boccanegra , Tosca, Alice Ford, the two Verdi “Leonors” and Elisabeth in Don Carlos . Her last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in December 1972, Marguerite in Faust, alongside John Macurdy as Méphistophélès. At the Metropolitan Opera she holds the record with a total of 11 roles as the soprano who appeared there with the most leading roles in Verdi operas.

In 1966 she sang Aida in the opening performance of the new Houston Grand Opera (Jones Hall) . In the United States, she also sang in Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans and Philadelphia.

She has also made guest appearances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , the Sydney Opera House , in Johannesburg and has made several guest tours to countries in the Far East ( Japan tours, 1959/1961).

After finishing her career, she worked as a lecturer at Indiana University in Bloomington . In January 2014 she was a jury member at the “Concurso Internacional de Canto Francisco Viñas” in Barcelona . Tucci died in July 2020 at the age of 90 in her hometown of Rome.

Voice and sound documents

Gabriella Tucci sang a repertoire of around 80 leading roles on stage, mainly in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. Her stage roles also included Elvira in I Puritani and Elcia in Mosè in Egitto .

Tucci had a "lyrical-dramatic voice of great expressiveness" (Kutsch / Riemens). Critics described her voice as "big and opulent," with color and warmth.

Tucci sang, since she did not have an exclusive contract with a certain record company, only in two complete commercial opera recordings. In 1959 she took up the Nedda in Pagliacci , at the side of Mario del Monaco . In 1964 EMI published a studio recording of Il trovatore (conductor: Thomas Schippers ) in which she can be heard as Leonore (with Franco Corelli as a partner). However, numerous live recordings have been preserved; video recordings in which she participates have also been published.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gabriella Tucci  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anthony Tommasini: Gabriella Tucci, 90, Dies; Italian Soprano and Met Opera Mainstay. In: The New York Times , July 17, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Morta il soprano Gabriella Tucci, aveva 90 anni . Obituary (Italian). In: La Stampa of July 12, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Logan Martell: Obituary: Italian Soprano Gabriella Tucci Dies, Aged 90 . Obituary (English). In: Operawire of July 11, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Gabriella TUCCI turns 90 . Online marker. August 2019 edition. Accessed July 13, 2020.
  5. ^ Aida 1967 Terme di Caracalla . Occupation. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  6. ↑ AIDA . Occupation. La Fenice Theater of Venice. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  7. ↑ Madama Butterfly Metropolitan Opera House: 10/29/1960. Cast list. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ Tucci Gabriella Soprano . Performance directory. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  9. ↑ Faust . Metropolitan Opera House: 12/25/1972. Cast list. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  10. ↑ Gabriella Tucci . Retrieved July 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Tucci, Gabriella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2020 or July 11, 2020
Place of death Rome , Italy