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| Born | 1961 Bari, Italy |
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| Years active | 1981 – present |
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Amelia Felle (born 1961) is an Italian operatic soprano and voice teacher. Born in Bari, she has been active on the stages of Italian and European opera houses and concert halls since her debut in 1981. She holds the chair in vocal chamber music at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, a position she previously held at the Conservatorio Tito Schipa in Lecce.
Felle was born in Bari and received her diplomas in piano and singing from the city's Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni. At the same time she obtained a diploma in architecture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari. [1] She made her singing debut in Bari in 1981 performing in oratorios by Vivaldi and Pergolesi with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari. [2] After winning the Concorso Liederistico Internazionale di Finale Ligure and the Voci Nuove per la Lirica competitions in 1984, she made her debut on the opera stage at Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto as Adina in L'elisir d'amore and sang again there as Norina in Don Pasquale (1985) and Susanna Le nozze di Figaro directed by Gigi Proietti (1986). [3]
She went on to make her house debuts at the Teatro San Carlo as Sofia in Il signor Bruschino (1986), La Fenice as Musetta in La bohème (1987), and La Scala as Jemmy in Guillaume Tell (1988). In the first years of her career she sang primarily in operas by Donizetti, Rossini, and Mozart but she also appeared in two rarely performed Mascagni operas, Le maschere (as Colombina) and Sì (as Vera), as well as singing Nena in La Scala's first performance of Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato . Her later Verdian roles included Amelia in Ballo in maschera , the title role of Aida , Elvira in Ernani , Elisabetta in Don Carlo , Lucrezia in I due Foscari , and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra . [3] [4]
In the early 2000s Felle left the opera stage and has since concentrated on the vocal chamber music repertoire. [5] For over 20 years she has been a professor of singing in parallel with her performance career. She is professor of vocal chamber music at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, a post she previously held at the Conservatorio Tito Schipa in Lecce, and has taught courses and master classes for the universities of Barcelona, Weimar, Leipzig, Dublin, Karlsruhe, Palma de Mallorca, Istanbul, and Malta amongst others. [1] [6]
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