Roberta Invernizzi

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Opera Rara , Krakow 2009

Roberta Invernizzi (born November 16, 1966 in Milan ) is an Italian concert and opera singer with a soprano voice who specializes in the repertoire of baroque music and Mozart and performs at major festivals.

life and work

Invernizzi studied piano and double bass as a teenager before she decided to study singing with Margaret Heyward , and later with Emma Kirkby in England. Early on she specialized in music from the Renaissance to the 18th century , with a particular preference for baroque music . Over the years the singer has developed a broad repertoire, which focuses specifically on the composers Bach , Handel and Purcell , Monteverdi , Vivaldi , Scarlatti and Piccinni .

As a concert singer

Due to her specialization, it was clear from the beginning of her career that the concert podium would be her main place of activity, as the operas of the composers mentioned are only rarely staged. The artist quickly established excellent working relationships with important representatives of the original sound movement , such as Jordi Savall , Andrew Parrott , Gustav Leonhardt and his Leonhardt Consort , the Concentus Musicus Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Il complesso barocco under Alan Curtis , Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini , Il Concerto Italiano under Rinaldo Alessandrini , La Cappella de la Pietà dei Turchini under Antonio Florio , Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi , La Risonanza under Fabio Bonizzoni , the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon , the Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe Spinosi , the 18 Century under Frans Brüggen , as well as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman .

Already in the early 1990s Invernizzi was a sought-after singer in her specialty all over Italy and her first recordings, including Eurinda in the forgotten opera Il moro per amore by Alessandro Stradella in 1994 , were highly praised by critics. This was followed by appearances in Salzburg (see below), in Paris (in Piccinnis Didone abbandonata ), in New York (in 1999 at the opening concert of the New York Collegium with Gustav Leonhardt), in Berlin, Prague, London, Los Angeles and numerous other cities.

Performances in Austria

Invernizzi's connection to Austria and its musical landscape is particularly close. The singer has a long-term concert collaboration with the Salzburg Festival , where she was heard for the first time in 2003 as Aci in Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo , where Il Giardino Armonico was conducted by Giovanni Antonini . In 2004 Il Piacere followed in Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno and the Vienna Academy under Martin Haselböck , in 2007 a chamber concert with L'Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi and in 2011 Un'accademia Napoletana , again with Il Giardino Armonico under Antonini, and the soprano solo in Mozart's C minor mass in the collegiate church of St. Peter . In 2012 she made her first guest appearance at the Ouverture spirituelle (with the Orchestra Mozart Bologna under Claudio Abbado ), in 2013 for the first time at the Whitsun Festival (in Niccolò Jommelli's Isacco figura del redentore with the Barocchisti under Diego Fasolis ) and at the Overture spirituelle again with the solo in the Mass in C minor.

With Il complesso barocco and its founder and director Alan Curtis , the singer has performed several concerts at the Theater an der Wien : in 2009 as Elisa in Scarlatti's Tolomeo e Alessandro , in 2010 and 2012 as Elisa and Nerea in the Handel operas Tolomeo and Deidamia , and in 2012 - with the Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone - as Lucio in Tito Manlio by Vivaldi .

In 2011 Invernizzi sang - at the Festival of Early Music - in the Wilten collegiate church, the concert "Handel in Rome", the choir and orchestra of the Academia Monte Realis played and sang under the direction of Alessandro De Marchi . In 2012, on the 20th anniversary of the Resonanzen Festival, she was a guest at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the recital Roberta Invernizzi and friends . Nikolaus Harnoncourt engaged her at the end of the same year to perform Handel's Alexander's Feast , which he performed there in the German-language Mozart version on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Wiener Musikverein . This concert has also been released on CD under the title Timotheus or The Violence of Music . In the Musikverein she was also heard as Maria Magdalena in Handel's La Resurrezione (again under Harnoncourt), as well as in Mozart's C minor Mass and in Davide Penitente . She was also invited by the Styriarte festivals in Styria and Trigonale in Carinthia .

At La Scala and other opera stages

In the 2005–2006 season Invernizzi took over Armida in Handel's Rinaldo in the Teatro alla Scala in her hometown of Milan. Pier Luigi Pizzi staged it . Their performance has been described as an "operational triumph". In September 2009 the singer made her debut at Scala as Euridice in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and was characterized as a “luxury cast ” by the specialist portal theoperacritic.com . It staged by Robert Wilson , it conducted Rinaldo Alessandrini .

In 2009 she sang the concertante Nerone in Handel's Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the title role in Albinoni's La Statira at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Ottavia in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea , and at La Fenice in Galuppi's L'olimpiade , Vivaldis Ercole su'l Termodonte and in Cavallis Virtù degli Strali d'Amore . In February 2013 she took over the Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro Ristori in Verona.

Invernizzi has been teaching singing at the Centro di Musica Antica in Naples since 1997 and holds master classes at the Civica Schola in Milan .

Discography (selection)

Complete opera recordings

Other worldly music

Religious music

  • 1994: Bonaventura Rubino : Vêpres du Stellario de Palerme (K617)
  • 1995: Antonio Vivaldi : Gloria - Magnificat - Dixit , with Carlos Gubert / Angelo Ephrikian (Rivoalto / Diakronia Musica)
  • 1995: Pietro Pace : O Dulcissima Maria , with Sacro & Profano, Marco Mencoboni (E Lucevan Le Stelle Records)
  • 1995: Henry Purcell : Ode on St. Cecilia's Day - Jehovah, Quam multi sunt hostes mei - Beati omnes qui timent Dominum - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary , with the Coro Della Radio Svizzera and Ensemble "Vanitas" / Diego Fasolis (Amadeus )
  • 1996: Giovanni L Limiti : La morte del cor penitente (Oratorio) (divox)
  • 1996: Cristofaro Caresana : Per la Nascita del Verbo , with the Cappella de 'Turchini / Antonio Florio (Opus 111)
  • 1997: Francesco Provenzale : La colomba ferita , with Gloria Banditelli and others, Cappella de 'Turchini / Antonio Florio (Opus 111)
  • 1997: Henry Purcell: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , with Diego Fasolis (Arts)
  • 1997: Johann Sebastian Bach : Magnificat BWV 243, Cantata BWV 21, Motet BWV 225 , with Antonella Balducci, Ulrike Klausen, Fulvio Bettini, Coro della Radio Svizzera, Ensemble Vanitas / Diego Fasolis (Arts)
  • 1997: Dieterich Buxtehude : Membra Jesu Nostri , with Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca / Accademia Strumentale Italiana / Diego Fasolis (Naxos)
  • 1998: Giacomo Carissimi : Jonas - Dives Malus - Beatus Vir , with the Coro Della Radio Svizzera, Sonatori Della Gioiosa Marca / Diego Fasolis
  • 1998: Francesco Provenzale : Vespro all'Oratorio dei Girolamini - Vespers at the Oratorio dei Girolamini , with the Cappella de 'Turchini / Antonio Florio (Opus 111)
  • 1998: Francesco Provenzale: Mottetti , with the Cappella de'Turchini / Antonio Florio (Opus 111)
  • 1999: Compositori Napoletani , with the Cappella de'Turchini / Antonio Florio (Opus 111)
  • 1999: Georg Friedrich Händel : Dixit Dominus & Antonio Vivaldi : Gloria , with the Swiss Radio Chorus of Lugano, I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis (BBC Music)
  • 1999: Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes Passion BWV 245 , with the Ensemble Vanitas (Arts)
  • 1999: Georg Friedrich Händel: Dettingen Te Deum / Dixit Dominus , with Lena Lootens , Elena Cecchi Fedi, Gloria Banditelli , Furio Zanasi and others, Coro della Radio Svizzera, Ensemble Vanitas, Diego Fasolis (Arts, 1999)
  • 2000: Giuseppe Cavallo : Il Giudizio Universale , with Cappella de 'Turchini / Antonio Florio (Opus 111)
  • 2003: Antonio Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (Opus 111)
  • 2004: Claudio Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine , Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve)
  • 2004: Alessandro Scarlatti : La Santissima Trinità , with Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi (Virgin Veritas)
  • 2004: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi : Stabat Mater & and Nicola Porpora : Salve Regina , with Sonia Prina , Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone (amadeus)
  • 2006: Antonio Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus , Körnerscher Sing-Verein Dresden / Dresdner Instrumental-Concert, Peter Kopp (archive production)
  • 2007: Franz Joseph Haydn : Il ritorno di Tobia , VokalEnsemble Köln, Capella Augustina / Andreas Spering (Naxos)
  • 2007: Giovanni Paisiello : Passione di Gesù Cristo (cpo)
  • 2008: Misteria Paschalia (compilation, Tygodnik Powszechny)
  • 2010: Alessandro Scarlatti: La Santissima Trinità (Virgin Veritas)
  • 2010: Alessandro Scarlatti: La Santissima Annunziata (Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe)
  • 2010: Gian Francesco de Majo : Gesu sotto il peso della Croce (Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe)
  • 2012: Georg Friedrich Händel: Carmelite Vespers 1709 (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

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proof

  1. ↑ James Oestrich: A New Group and Its Ambitions , New York Times , January 19, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Invernizzi, Roberta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soprano
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan