Jeannette Pilou

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Jeannette Pilou ( Greek Ιωάννα «Ζαννέτ» Πηλού Ioánna "Zannét" Piloú ; born July 11, 1937 in Alexandria ; † April 27, 2020 in Athens ) was an Italian opera singer of Greek descent ( soprano ).

Life

Jeannette Pilou began her vocal training in Egypt and continued it in Italy with Carla Castellani . In 1959 she made her debut at the Teatro Smeraldo in Milan as Violetta in La traviata and had her first appearance with this role at La Scala in Milan in 1960 . Her international career developed quickly. Her repertoire included a wide range of lyrical and dramatic soprano roles in Italian and French operas.

In 1965 she interpreted the main role in La Bohème at the Vienna State Opera , where she played 16 roles in 185 performances until 1979.

Starting with the role of Juliette ( Roméo et Juliette ) on October 7, 1967, she sang 79 times at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the years up to her last performance as Nedda ( Pagliacci ) on May 27, 1986 . a. Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Mélisande ( Pelléas et Mélisande ), Micaëla ( Carmen ), Marguerite ( Faust ) or Mimì ( La Bohème ).

She also appeared at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , the Wiesbaden International May Festival , the Arena di Verona Opera Festival , the Wexford Festival Opera and in 1968 at the Salzburg Festival (Zerlina in Don Giovanni ).

In 1973 she sang the leading role of Inez de Castro in the world premiere of Renzo Rossellini's opera La reine morte ( Monte Carlo , July 7th).

From 1969 to 1985 she took part regularly in productions of the Greek National Opera and the Athens Festival and gave acclaimed interpretations of Liù ( Turandot ), Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ) and Cio-Cio-San ( Madama Butterfly ), Donna Elvira Don Giovanni , Desdemona ( Otello ) and Marguerite Faust . In 1998 she was Mélisande at the Greek premiere of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande in the Athens Concert Hall.

Throughout her career she had at all major opera houses in Europe and America guest performances, as at London's Covent Garden , Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam , Hamburg State Opera , Cologne Opera , Opera in Hanover , the Brussels opera house La Monnaie , the Paris Opera Garnier , Hungarian State Opera House , the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Lyric Opera of Chicago , New Orleans Opera , Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, San Francisco Opera and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Her repertoire ranged from Gluck's Eurydice ( Orpheus and Eurydice ) and Mozart's Susanna and Zerlina to the three female roles in One The Trial , but her lyrical style and personality were particularly suited to French opera, and Marguerite, Julia, Micaëla, Manon and Mélisande were among her most successful performances. She was a good Violetta too, while her Puccini roles included Mimì, Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Liù and Magda ( La rondine ). The timbre of her voice was not without a trace of harshness, which she used cleverly to give her performances a dramatic note.

Pilou was a founding member of the Maria Callas Scholarship Foundation .

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Jeannette Pilou . Accessed April 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Pilou, Jeannette in the repertoire archive of the Vienna State Opera
  3. ^ [Met Performance CID: 212190] Archives of the Metropolitan Opera New York
  4. ^ [Met Performance CID: 284470] in the archive of the Metropolitan Opera New York
  5. ^ Salzburg Festival Archive
  6. ^ Greek soprano Jeannette Pilou dies at 83 . Accessed April 30, 2020.
  7. ^ Jeannette Pilou, committee member at the 37th International Grand Prix Competition Maria Callas. Report on in.gr from March 11, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2020. (Greek)
personal data
SURNAME Pilou, Jeannette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piloú, Ioánna (real name); Πηλού, Ιωάννα (Ζαννέτ) (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer of Greek descent (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2020
Place of death Athens