Anna Caterina Antonacci

Anna Caterina Antonacci, July 2012

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.

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 Countess Ceprano in Verdi's Rigoletto , in 1984, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. ^[2] In 1994, she made her Royal Opera debut as Elcia in Mosè in Egitto . ^[3] She appeared there again in 2006 with Jonas Kaufman. ^[4] She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012. ^[5] In 2013, she appeared in La voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique. ^[6] She had been married until his death in 2023 of cancer to the water polo player Luca Giustolisi, with whom she had a son, Gillo. ^[7]

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: Countess Ceprano ( Rigoletto ), 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. "47º Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 1984 (1983-84.04M)". Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Retrieved 12 July 2026.
3. "Anna Caterina Antonacci – People". The Royal Opera . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
4. "Anna Caterina Antonacci, Beyond Compare". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
5. Woolfe, Zachary (30 March 2012). "A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways". The New York Times
6. "Road Show: Anna Caterina Antonacci in Paris". Opera News . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
7. 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 by Luiz Gazzola, July 2012, Opera Lively
• Anna Caterina Antonacci, Operabase