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Luisa Maragliano
Luisa Maragliano (born in 1931) is an Italian soprano.
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Luisa Maragliano (born in 1931) is an Italian soprano.
Maragliano began her career in 1955 after an audition at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, where she was chosen by the conductor Tristano Illersberg as one of the Flower Maidens in Wagner's Parsifal .
Between 1957 and 1959, Maragliano began to impose herself on the Italian opera scene; particularly important was her debut in 1959, replacing Antonietta Stella, in La forza del destino at the Verona Arena, [1] where she was a constant presence until the beginning of the 1970s.
She later sang in all major theatres around the world, including La Scala, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, the Chicago Opera House, [2] the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The Neapolitan theatre is a favourite: among her numerous appearances are Simon Boccanegra in 1969 alongside Piero Cappuccilli in his debut role and Attila in 1971. Other important steps in her career are the opening of La Scala with Luisa Miller in 1969 (replacing Montserrat Caballé) and I masnadieri at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the direction of Riccardo Muti.
She covers a wide repertoire ranging from Handel's Giulio Cesare to verismo, with a preference for Verdi's Aida in over 500 performances, as well as performing in Il trovatore , Un ballo in maschera , La traviata and in the already mentioned Luisa Miller and La forza del destino . She also interprets various titles of the first Verdi: Attila, I masnadieri, Nabucco , La battaglia di Legnano , I due Foscari , Ernani . From Puccini's repertoire, she performs La bohème , Manon Lescaut , Tosca , Madama Butterfly , Suor Angelica , Turandot (Liù), and works by other verismo composers such as Andrea Chénier , Cavalleria rusticana , and Francesca da Rimini .
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