Nelly Miricioiu
Nelly Miricioiu (born March 31, 1952 in Adjud ) is a Romanian opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Nelly Miricioiu, named after Nellie Melba , made her debut in 1970 as Queen of the Night in the opera Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Bucharest . She then became a member of the ensemble of the Brașov Opera . In 1981 she moved to London . She sang at the Scottish Opera and at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982 . In 1982 she made her debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Nedda in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo .
Above all, she made a name for herself as an interpreter in partly forgotten works of bel canto , in operas by Gaetano Donizetti , Gioachino Rossini , Vincenzo Bellini , Saverio Mercadante , Giovanni Pacini or Giacomo Meyerbeer .
She has appeared at the Paris Opera , in the Milan Scala , the Vienna State Opera , in the Arena of Verona , in San Francisco , Dallas , Philadelphia , Madrid , Rome , Montpellier , Hamburg , Frankfurt am Main , at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well the Berlin State Opera and in Australia .
CD recordings
- Puccini: Tosca . Naxos
- Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra . Opera Rara
- Donizetti: Roberto Devereux . Opera Rara
- Donizetti: Maria de Rudenz . Opera Rara
- Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide . Opera Rara
- Mercadante : Orazi e Curiazi . Opera Rara
- Mercadante: Emma d'Antiochia. Opera Rara
- Pacini : Maria regina d'Inghilterra. Opera Rara
- Respighi : La fiamma. Agora
- Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana . Chandos
- Rossini Gala. Opera Rara
- Mercadante Rediscovered. Opera Rara
- Donizetti: Scenes and Overtures. Opera Rara
- La Potenza d'amore. Opera Rara
- Mercadante - Les Soirées Italiennes. Opera Rara
- Rossini: Three Tenors. Opera Rara
- Nelly Miricioiu. Etcetera
- Nelly Miricioiu - Bel Canto Portrait. Opera Rara
- Prinsengracht Concert. Van
- Live at the Concertgebouw. Challenge
- Recital at Wigmore Hall. Etcetera
- Nelly Miricioiu Live in Amsterdam. Vanguard
literature
- Manuel Brug: The New Singing Voices , Henschel Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89487-452-X
- Booklet for recording Tosca near Naxos
Web links
- Works by and about Nelly Miricioiu in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nelly Miricioiu Official Website
- Nelly Miricioiu - committed to Belcanto Interview with Thomas Tillmann in OMM (Online Music Magazine), September 2001 (accessed on August 17, 2020)
- Nelly Miricioiu at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singing Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harenberg opera guide. 4th edition. Meyers Lexikonverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-411-76107-5 , p. 1132.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miricioiu, Nelly |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adjud |