Vivica Exactlyx

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Vivica Exactly (2010)

Vivica Genaux (* 10. July 1969 in Fairbanks (Alaska)) is an American opera and concert singer, noted for its virtuoso interpretations as coloratura - Mezzo Soprano is famous.

Life

Vivicagenaux is the youngest child of a native Belgian and a Mexican- born mother of German descent; her grandmother (on her mother's side) came from Leipzig . Her father was a professor of biochemistry, her mother a high school teacher. Vivica grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska , as well as in Japan , Texas and Belgium .

She first learned the violin and received her first singing lessons at the age of 13 from Dorothy Dow in Galveston (Texas). In a school play she appeared as Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady and decided to become a singer. Nevertheless, she first studied biology at the University of Rochester from 1987 and continued to take singing lessons. At Indiana University she was a student of Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and Virginia Zeani , later in Pittsburgh with Claudia Pinza (daughter of Ezio Pinza ).

She made her operatic debut in 1994 as Isabella in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee . In 1997 she sang for the first time at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia . Other Rossini roles that she has sung in international theaters or in concerts are Angelina in La Cenerentola , Malcolm in La donna del lago , Falliero in Bianca e Falliero (2008) and Arsace in Semiramide (2015).

Vivicagenau is particularly well known as a brilliant interpreter of the baroque repertoire . She had her international breakthrough in 2002 with the CD Arias for Farinelli with René Jacobs , a portrait of the famous castrato Farinelli , where she was able to show her amazing virtuosity. The CD was a bestseller and was nominated for a Grammy .

In 2010 she sang for the first time at the Salzburg Festival .

Exactly has sung in numerous operas by Georg Friedrich Händel and Antonio Vivaldi , and especially loves the music of Johann Adolf Hasse , for whom she has repeatedly advocated, both in performances and on CD. In 2017 she sang the role of Piramo in Hasses Piramo e Tisbe in Budapest , Vienna and Valencia , together with the Ensemble Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi ; 2018 in the Pinchgut Opera in Sidney the role of Mandane in Hasse's Artaserse ; At the Theater an der Wien she sang the title role in Hasse's Irene on January 29, 2020 .

Her repertoire also includes the title roles in Handel's Giulio Cesare , Tamerlano and Rodrigo , Ruggiero in Alcina , Lepido in Lucio Cornelio Silla , Emilia in Vivaldi's Catone in Utica , Dido in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , and Trasimede in Riccardo Broschi's Merope .

In concerts and on CD she has also sung rare Baroque repertoire by composers such as Geminiano Giacomelli , Nicola Porpora , Attilio Ariosti , Carlo Francesco Pollarolo , Giovanni Bononcini , Domenico Sarro and Leonardo Vinci .

Honors

Discography (selection)

(each chronologically)

Aria programs

Total recordings

(in brackets after title appears the role of Vivicagenaux)

literature

Web links

Commons : Vivicagenaux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Vivicagenaux , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 03/2001 of January 8, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  2. ↑ 1: 11.44 min - 1: 12.12 min in an interview with Vivicagenaux in Mexico on Youtube (Italian with Spanish subtitles; accessed on August 20, 2020)
  3. ↑ 1: 11.44 min - 1: 12.12 min in an interview with Vivicagenaux in Mexico on Youtube (Italian with Spanish subtitles; accessed on August 20, 2020)
  4. ↑ 19.58–20.15 min and 21.40–21.50 min in an interview with Vivicagenaux in Mexico on Youtube (Italian with Spanish subtitles; accessed on August 20, 2020)
  5. ↑ a b [1]
  6. ↑ a b c biography of Vivicagenaux on her personal website (English; accessed August 20, 2020)
  7. ↑ Aria awards give 3 opera singers $ 15,000 each , April 20, 1997, article online at Deseret News (English; accessed August 14, 2020)
  8. ↑ All honors according to Vivicagenaux's biography on her official website (see at the bottom) (English; accessed on August 13, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Exactly, Vivica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Fairbanks