Maria Agresta

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Maria Agresta with the tenor Giorgio Berrugi and her manager Gianluca Macheda in a picture published in 2016

Maria Giovanna Agresta (born July 16, 1978 in Vallo della Lucania ) is an Italian opera and concert singer with a soprano voice .

biography

Maria Agresta received her diploma at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Martucci in Salerno with top marks and then completed her studies with Raina Kabaivanska in Modena. In 2006 she made her debuts in Spoleto as Rosina in the Barber of Seville and as Selene in Didone abbandonata by Baldassare Galuppi . In 2007 she made her debut as Micaëla in Carmen in Messina and as Desdemona in Otello at various houses.

Other roles from the Italian subject followed; especially her debut as Duchessa Elena in I vespri siciliani at the Teatro Regio di Torino in 2011 brought her wide recognition. Since then she has also been a sought-after guest at La Scala in Milan and other important opera houses such as the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , Teatro La Fenice di Venezia , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , the State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera House London and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia. In 2015 she appeared for the first time at the Salzburg Easter Festival as Jonas Kaufmann's stage partner in the role of Nedda in Pagliacci . She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York in January 2016 in the role of Mimi in La Bohème . At the Salzburg Festival in August 2016, she made a highly regarded role debut in the French field as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust . In 2017 further engagements followed at the Metropolitan Opera as Micaëla in Carmen in January and as Liù in Turandot in October.

In 2014 Maria Agresta was awarded the XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana. Here is the German translation of the reason:

“This lyrical soprano voice of the greatest purity, with excellent timbre and noble timbres, has made a significant contribution to the great Italian tradition, to a repertoire that includes various vocal and essential personalities, from Elvira in I puritani to Liù in Turandot . In 2013 she made significant contributions to the interpretation of Verdiopers from the galley years (note: the early creative phase) , with I masnadieri at the Teatro La Fenice and Oberto conte di San Bonifacio at the Teatro alla Scala , as well as from the mature period, with Otello at the Teatro Carlo Felice . "

repertoire

Maria Agresta entered a. a. with the following roles at major opera houses:

Her concert repertoire includes the Stabat Mater by Rossini and the Requiem by Verdi.

Discography

Sound recordings

  • Galuppi: Didone abbandonata - Piva / Grasso / Giansanti / Agresta / Carnevale / Carè, world premiere 2006 Bongiovanni
  • Verdi: Sacred Verdi. Quattro pezzi sacri , Libera me, Ave Maria - Maria Agresta, Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano . 2014 Warner Classics

Video recordings on DVD or Blu-ray Disc

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of Maria Agresta , Salzburger Nachrichten of July 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Review by kultur24.berlin on Cavalleria Rusticana + Pagliacci at the 2015 Salzburg Easter Festival
  3. ↑ "Review: In 'Turandot' and 'La Bohème,' a New Depth of Emotion" , New York Times, January 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Review of the premiere of Gounds Faust at the Salzburg Festival 2016 , Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ Eric C. Simpson: Margaine makes sensational debut in Met's riveting “Carmen”. New York Classical Review, January 20, 2017, accessed March 7, 2017 .
  6. ^ Wilborn Hampton: Met Opera: A Stirring "Turandot" With Dyka, Antonenko, and an Homage to James Morris. Huffington Post, October 18, 2017, accessed October 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana a Maria Agresta ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / critici.prosaclick.com
  8. ^ Concert review Berliner Morgenpost, April 2, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Agresta, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agresta, Maria Giovanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera and concert singer with a soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallo della Lucania