Mariana Nicolesco

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Mariana Nicolesco (born November 28, 1948 in Găujani ) is a Romanian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Mariana Nicolesco first studied violin at the Conservatory of Music in Brașov , then, for a short time, singing at the Conservatory of Cluj-Napoca , before receiving a scholarship at the Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome , where she took singing lessons with Jolanda Magnoni. She then studied with Rodolfo Celletti and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf .

At the end of her training, she won the Voci Rossiniane singing competition organized by RAI in Milan in 1972 . Immediately afterwards she came to Cincinnati as Mimì in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème , promoted and engaged by the American conductor Thomas Schippers . In 1978 she made her debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata , a role she has sung more than 200 times and in 1982 at La Scala in Milan , where she performed in the world premiere of Luciano Berio's La Vera Storia , as well as many performed in other new productions, recitals and concerts.

She sang in Rome, Florence, Parma, Venice, Palermo, Munich, Vienna, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Zurich, Paris, Monte Carlo, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Miami, New Orleans, Washington, Boston, Toronto, Tokyo, Pretoria, Caracas or Rio de Janeiro. She has also performed in prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Royal Festival Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam , the Wiener Musikverein , Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome , Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Salzburg Festival , Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro , Martina Franca Festival, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico .

It was in the middle of important productions by Luchino Visconti , Giorgio Strehler , Patrice Chéreau , Luca Ronconi , Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , Franco Zeffirelli , Gian Carlo Menotti , Pier Luigi Pizzi , Jonathan Miller , under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Riccardo Muti , Seiji Ozawa , Lorin Maazel , Berislav Klobučar , Peter Maag , Giuseppe Patanè , Alberto Zedda , Colin Davis , Georges Prêtre and Gennadi Roschdestwenski .

Mariana Nicolesco participated in the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's Seven Gates of Jerusalem , dedicated to the Holy City and its 3000 year history (1997). As a guest of Pope John Paul II , she sang in the first Christmas concert ever televised from the Vatican by Mondovisione TV, which was watched by over 1 billion people (1993).

In 1995 Mariana Nicolesco founded the Hariclea Darclée International Festival and Voice Competition in Romania , in which more than 2200 young talents from 47 countries and 5 continents have participated. Between the festival runs, she offers master classes for the young artists. For the Darclée events, she has acquired the UNESCO High Patronage.

She also founded the Romanian National Song Festival and Competition (2003). For the UNESCO- proclaimed George Enescu Year (2005), she and the winners of the competition presented the complete edition of the songs by Enescu. These were performed with great success in Romania, at the Aichi World Exhibition in Nagoya and Tokyo , in Prague , Paris , Rome and New York. This complete edition was also published on CD and DVD.

In 2014 she was a member of the International Chinese Singing Competition with 430 participants from 41 countries.

Mariana Nicolesco was awarded the Star of the Order of Romania in the rank of Grand Cross for “her extraordinary merits and as a sign of high recognition for her entire career”.

The special award of the Europe Medal as part of the KulturPreis Europa was awarded to Mariana Nicolesco “for her performance on a musical level, as a mentor of a new generation of singers, to transport Europe to Romania and in return, to bring Romanian culture to Europe”.

Nicolesco, winner of the UNESCO Medal for Artistic Achievement, is also UNESCO Artist for Peace and UNESCO Honorary Ambassador “in recognition of her commitment to musical heritage, artistic creation, dialogue between cultures and her contribution to promoting the ideals of the organization . "

repertoire

Mariana Nicolesco has a broad repertoire from baroque to verismo and contemporary music, with a focus on the operas of Mozart , Verdi and bel canto . Her most impressive roles include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , Elettra in Idomeneo , Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito , Cinna in Lucio Silla , Beatrice di Tenda , Anna Bolena , Maria Stuarda , Elisabetta I in Roberto Devereux , Maria di Rohan , Amelia in Simon Boccanegra , Desdemona in Otello , Gilda in Rigoletto , Violetta in La Traviata , Leonora in Il trovatore , Luisa in Luisa Miller , Liù in Turandot , Mimi in La Bohème , Nedda in Pagliacci .

Awards

Discography

Mariana Nicolesco can be heard in the following recordings:

literature

  • Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1985, 1988
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992
  • Oxford University Press, 2002, 2008
  • Who's Who in Music, 1993
  • Riemann Music Lexicon, 1992
  • Large song dictionary, 1991
  • Rodolfo Celletti Il Teatro d'Opera in disco, 1987
  • Rodolfo Celletti La Musica in Dischi, 1990
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 1986
  • Opera '93. Annuario dell'opera lirica in Italia
  • The Clarinet, 1984, Vol. 12-13, International Clarinet Society, Jdaho State University.
  • Bielefeld catalog Klassic, Compact Discs, MusiCassetten 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
  • Dorina Rusu - Istoria Academiei Române în date (1866–1996), Story of the Romanian Academy in dates (1866–1996) - Bucharest, 1997
  • Nuova rivista musicale italiana, numbers 3-4, 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Nicolesco, Mariana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Găujani