I cento anni di Giulietta Simionato
May 12th 1910 - May 5th 2010
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IL TROVATORE
Parte seconda - La Gitana.
Scena I
AZUCENA
Stride la vampa! ( ... )
Condotta ell'era in ceppi ( ... )
Sul capo mio le chiome
Sento rizzarsi ancor!
[I can still feel the hair
stand up on my head!]
Azucena ricade trambasciata sul proprio seggio, Manrico ammutolisce colpito d'orrore e di sorpresa. Momenti di silenzio
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"Giulietta Simionato (12 May 1910 - 5 May 2010) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966.
Born at Forlì, Romagna, she studied in Rovigo and Padua, and made her operatic debut at Montagnana in 1928. In 1928, she sang in Verdi's Rigoletto. The first fifteen years of her career were frustrating, she was only given small parts, but she attracted growing attention in the late 1940s, and by the end of her career was recognized as one of the most respected singers of her generation. In 1936, she made her debut at La Scala and appeared there regularly between 1936 and 1966. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1953, where she likewise appeared regularly between 1963 and 1965.
In 1959, Simionato made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, as Azucena in Il Trovatore, with Carlo Bergonzi, Antonietta Stella, and Leonard Warren. Simionato also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival (1947), the San Francisco Opera (1953), the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (1954), the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1954--1961), the Vienna State Opera (from 1956), and the Salzburg Festival. In 1957, she sang in Anna Bolena with Maria Callas.
Simionato had a large repertory including Rossini's Rosina and Cinderella, Charlotte in Werther, and Carmen. She also excelled in the Verdian repertoire, as Amneris, Eboli and Azucena, and as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.
She continued to inspire admiration through teaching and various directorial positions, with amazing vitality even in her 90s. She was featured in Daniel Schmid's award-winning 1984 documentary film Il Bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss) about a home for retired opera singers founded by Giuseppe Verdi. She also appeared in a hilarious interview by Stefan Zucker in Jan Schmidt-Garre's 1999 film, Opera Fanatic.
She died in Rome one week before her 100th birthday."
From: en.wikipedia.or...
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Giulietta Simionato divenne la Simionato quando il tempo fu maturo per diventarlo. Quando Gianna Pederzini, bella, affascinante, mezzo soprano chiaro e quindi Carmen per definizione, complice poco un po' di epurazione post regime e molto età e condizione vocale passò a ruoli di caratterista la Simionato divenne Rossinienne e mezzo, quando dopo trent'anni di assoluto impero Ebe Stignani si ritirò la Simionato divenne il mezzo ufficiale della Scala ed il mezzo verdiano, quando dopo il 1958 Fedora Barbieri passò per stato vocale anche lei ai ruoli di caratterista la Simionato debuttò al Metropolitan. Scusate nessuna ingiustizia, nessuna Cenerentola incoronata, semplicemente, da parte di chi organizzava e gestiva la cognizione esatta di ciò che il mercato offriva e la capacità di offrire il titolo giusto alla persona giusta. Prendiamo esempio anche da questo!
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