Jessica Pratt
Jessica Pratt (* 1979 in Bristol ) is an Australian opera and concert singer ( soprano ).
Life
Jessica Pratt studied singing in Europe and Australia. She completed master classes a. a. with Joan Sutherland , Renata Scotto , Gustav Kuhn and Siegfried Jerusalem . She has won several prizes and grants, including the Australian Singing Competition at the Rome Opera and the Vienna State Opera .
She is regularly on stages and festivals such as the Teatro alla Scala , Teatro San Carlo , the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the Teatro La Fenice , the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera House , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Festival Caramoor and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and has worked with conductors such as Daniel Oren , Kent Nagano , Ralf Weikert , Donato Renzetti, Vladimir Ashkenazy , Wayne Marshall, Christian Thielemann , David Parry, Nello Santi and Sir Colin Davis .
In addition to her stage presence, Jessica Pratt works as a lieder and concert singer. She sang at the New Year's Concert 2012 at the La Fenice Theater in Venice, broadcast by arte.
Awards
2013: Premio Bacco dei Borbone, Festival della Valle d'Itria
repertoire
| composer | Opera | role |
|---|---|---|
| Bellini | I Capuleti ei Montecchi | Giulietta |
| I puritani | Elvira | |
| La sonnambula | Elvira | |
| Amber | Candide | Cunegonde |
| Donizetti | Viva la Mamma | Daria |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Lucia | |
| Gounod | Roméo and Juliette | Juliette |
| Halevy | La juive | Eudoxia |
| Meyerbeer | L'Africaine | Inès |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Donna Anna |
| Il re pastore | Aminta | |
| The Magic Flute | The queen of the night | |
| Rossini | Adelaide di Borgogna | Adelaide |
| Armida | Armida | |
| Ciro in Babilonia | Amira | |
| Demetrio e Polibio | Lisinga | |
| Guglielmo Tell | Matilde | |
| Otello | Desdemona | |
| Il signor Bruschino | Sofia | |
| Vaccai | La sposa di Messina | Donna Isabella |
| Verdi | Giovanna d'Arco | Giovanna |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Gilda |
Publications
Audio
- Rossini: Otello - Rossini in Wildbad (Naxos)
- Vaccai: La sposa di Messina - Rossini in Wildbad (Naxos)
- A Guided Tour of the Romantic Era Vol. 3 (Naxos)
- Bel Canto Bully (Naxos)
Video
- Donizetti: Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali - Teatro alla Scala (Belair Classiques)
- Bellini: La sonnambula - Teatro La Fenice (beta film)
- Rossini: Adelaide di Borgogna - Rossini Opera Festival (Unitel)
- Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia - Rossini Opera Festival (beta film)
- Teatro La Fenice New Years Concert 2012 (Arthaus Musik)
Web links
- Jessica Pratt homepage
- Jessica Pratt at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- http://www.opernhaus.ch/de/oper/kuenstler/detail.php?bioID=82378
- http://www.naxos.com/person/Jessica_Pratt/113994.htm
- http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/vogue-arts/2013/02/melodrama-queen
Individual evidence
- ↑ aussing.org.au ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ belairmedia.com ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ deutscheoperberlin.de ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Anthony Tommasini: "An Ancient War Gets the Silent Treatment film via Opera" , The New York Times , July 8th 2012
- ↑ operatoday.com
- ↑ teatrolafenice.it
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pratt, Jessica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian opera and concert singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol |