Anna Caterina Antonacci

Anna Caterina Antonacci (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon.

Anna Caterina Antonacci, July 2012

Life and career

Anna Caterina Antonacci was born in Ferrara, Italy on April 5, 1961.^[1] She studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. In 1994, she made her Royal Opera debut as Elcia in Mosè in Egitto.^[2] She appeared there again in 2006 with Jonas Kaufman.^[3] She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012.^[4] In 2013, she appeared in La voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique.^[5] She has been married until his 2023 cancer death with water polo player Luca Giustolisi, with whom she had a son, Gillo.^[6]

Repertory

• Bellini: Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
• Berlioz: Cassandre (Les Troyens), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Cléopâtre (La mort de Cléopâtre)
• Bizet: Carmen (Carmen)
• Cherubini: Medea (Medea)
• Cimarosa:Orazia (Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi)
• Donizetti: Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda)
• Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride)
• Halévy: Rachel (La Juive)
• Handel: Agrippina (Agrippina), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), Serse (Serse)
• Manfroce: Polyxena (Ecuba)
• Massenet: Charlotte (Werther)
• Mayr: Clotilde (La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa)
• Monteverdi: both Poppea and Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
• Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Elettra (Idomeneo)
• Paisiello: Elfrida (Elfrida), Nina (Nina)
• Puccini: Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
• Rossini: Rosina (Il barbiere di siviglia), Dorliska (Torvaldo e Dorliska), Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Semiramide (Semiramide), Ermione (Ermione), Elisabetta (Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra), Elena (La donna del lago), Zelmira (Zelmira), Elcia (Mosè in Egitto), Anaï (Moïse), Angelina (La Cenerentola)
• Verdi: Flora (La traviata), both Alice Ford and Meg Page (Falstaff), Marchesa del Poggio (Un giorno di regno)

Discography

Operas

• Berlioz: Les Troyens, John Eliot Gardiner, Théâtre du Châtelet
• Bizet: Carmen, Antonio Pappano, Covent Garden
• Handel: Rodelinda, William Christie, Glyndebourne Opera
• Marschner: Hans Heiling, Renato Palumbo [it], Cagliari Opera
• Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Ivor Bolton, Bavarian State Opera
• Mozart: Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Gustav Kuhn, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana [it]
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, Riccardo Muti, Vienna State Opera
• Rossini: Ermione, Andrew Davis, Glyndebourne
• Verdi: Falstaff (Meg Page), Riccardo Muti, La Scala

Solo

• Era La Notte/Anna Caterina Antonacci (Monteverdi, Strozzi, Giramo)
• Monteverdi, Giramo, Strozzi, Carissimi, Cesti: "Lamenti Barocchi" Sergio Vartolo, Naxos 1995

References

1. Elizabeth Forbes (2001). "Antonacci, Anna Caterina". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900150.
2. "Anna Caterina Antonacci – People". The Royal Opera. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
3. "Anna Caterina Antonacci, Beyond Compare". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
4. Woolfe, Zachary (30 March 2012). "A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways". The New York Times
5. "Road Show: Anna Caterina Antonacci in Paris". Opera News. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
6. Carrella, Franco (14 September 2023). "Pallanuoto in lutto: addio all'ex azzurro Giustolisi". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 16 September 2023.

• Christiansen, Rupert, "The Callas of our time?", The Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006. Accessed 26 February 2009.
• Duchen, Jessica, "Prima Donna Autentica", Opera News, June 2011, Vol. 75, No. 12.
• Fisher, Neil, "Anna Caterina Antonacci: the riddle of the sphinx", The Times, 16 January 2009. Accessed 26 February 2009.
• "Antonacci, Anna Caterina" by Elizabeth Forbes, Grove Music Online. Accessed via subscription 25 February 2009.

External links

• Anna Caterina Antonacci, Askonas Holt Artists' Management
• Interview with Antonacci^[usurped] by Luiz Gazzola, July 2012, Opera Lively
• Anna Caterina Antonacci, Operabase