Maria Chiara
Encyclopedia
Maria Chiara is an Italian
lyric soprano
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She was born in Oderzo
and studied at the Venice Conservatory and in Turin
with tenor
Ricardo Cassinelli and soprano Maria Carbone. She made her debut in Venice in 1965, as Desdemona in "Otello
."
She frequently performed roles from the operas of Puccini and Verdi, including Aïda (a Teatro alla Scala production directed by Luca Ronconi
is available on DVD), Violetta Valéry, Floria Tosca and Butterfly. Although retired as a performer, she remains active in the training of new singers.
Italy
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lyric soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
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She was born in Oderzo
Oderzo
Oderzo is a town and comune in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy.It lies in the heart of the Venetian plain, about 66 km to the northeast of Venice...
and studied at the Venice Conservatory and in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
with tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Ricardo Cassinelli and soprano Maria Carbone. She made her debut in Venice in 1965, as Desdemona in "Otello
Otello
Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887....
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She frequently performed roles from the operas of Puccini and Verdi, including Aïda (a Teatro alla Scala production directed by Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi is an Italian actor, theater director, and opera director.- Biography :After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, he graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1953. He acted in productions of Luigi Squarzina, Orazio Costa, Michelangelo Antonioni...
is available on DVD), Violetta Valéry, Floria Tosca and Butterfly. Although retired as a performer, she remains active in the training of new singers.
Further reading
- The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5