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Falstaff: Tutto nel mondo è burla (Live from Teatro Padiglione Palacassa di Parma / 2001)
Daniela Dessi, Barbara Frittoli, Elisabete Matos, Mariella Devia, Cinzia Rizzone, Luciana D'Intino, Gloria Scalchi, Rossana Rinaldi, Marcelo Álvarez, José Cura, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Luca Casalin, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Floris, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondi, Riccardo Zanellato, Konstantin Gorny, Coro del Festival Verdi di Parma, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Otello: Già nella notte densa (Live from Teatro Padiglione Palacassa di Parma / 2001)
Barbara Frittoli, José Cura, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Il trovatore: Madre, non dormi? (Live from Teatro Padiglione Palacassa di Parma / 2001)
Barbara Frittoli, Gloria Scalchi, Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
About Barbara Frittoli
Artist Biography
Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli established a major international operatic career in the 1990s and is rated as one of the leading lirico-spinto sopranos of her generation.
The native of Milan studied at that city's Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music, graduating with honors. After winning several international competitions, she began her operatic career in 1989 at the Teatro Communale in Florence in Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone. She soon appeared at the Festival Donizetti in Bergamo and at the Carlo Felice Theater in Geneva.
The year 1992 was one of major debuts for Frittoli, during which she appeared in Carmen in Philadelphia, in Naples in La Bohème, at La Scala in Milan in Beatrice di Tenda, and at Santa Cecilia in Rome in a rare production of Schubert's Rosamunde. The next year she played in Carmen (Micaëla) and La Bohème (Mimì) at the Vienna State Opera and made an impression in Baroque opera in Pergolesi's Flaminio at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
Mimì and Micaëla were her roles in her first season with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and she was Micaëla when she sang at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.
She has also appeared in Ferrara, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra Bastille in Paris (as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni), the Teatro Communale of Florence, and the Regio of Turin.
She toured with the Maggio Musicale of Florence as Liù in Puccini's Turandot when it took its spectacular production to China. This included the famous performance known as "Turandot in the Forbidden City," which has been recorded under Zubin Mehta's direction as a compact disc and a DVD on the RCA label.
Other leading operas in her repertory include Le nozze di Figaro (Countess), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), La Clemenza di Tito (Vitellia), Otello (Desdemona), Falstaff (Alice Ford), Il Trovatore (Leonora), and Simon Boccanegra (Amelia). She was invited to participate in the opening production of the renovated Royal Opera House in London in 1999 as Alice Ford.
Conductors with whom she has worked in opera and on the concert stage include Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtre, Daniele Gatti, Antonio Pappano, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Semyon Bychkov, and Riccardo Chailly.
In the year 2000, she added to her credits the parts of Sifare in Mozart's Mitridate, rè di Ponto and Marghereta in Gounod's Faust.
In addition to the Forbidden City discs, her recordings include Puccini's Il Trittico on Decca, Il Barbiere di Siviglia on Teldec, Il Viaggio a Reims on Sony, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater on EMI, and Rossini's Stabat Mater on Decca.
She is also in demand as a concert singer, where her repertory includes Strauss' Four Last Songs, Mozart's D minor mass, K. 427, the two versions of the Stabat Mater already mentioned, Verdi's Requiem, and Brahms' German Requiem in addition to a concert performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. She appears frequently as a recital singer.
Hometown
Milan, Italy
Genre
Classical
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