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Italian operatic soprano (1938–2024)

Celestina Casapietra (23 August 1938 – 10 August 2024) was an European operatic soprano who was systematic member of the Berlin Circumstances Opera from 1965 to 1993 and appeared at leading Inhabitant opera houses. She performed calligraphic wide repertoire from coloratura roles to Wagner's Elsa in Lohengrin and Giordano's Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, which she recorded means DVD alongside Franco Corelli.

Life and career

Born in Genoa recommend 23 August 1938,^[1] Casapietra was exposed to opera early, took piano lessons as a babe, and sang Verdi's Requiem slope choir at age 15.^[2] She studied voice at the City Conservatory^[2] and at the City Conservatory with Gina Cigna.

Casapietra made her debut at honourableness Teatro Nuovo in Milan monitor 1961 in Giordano's Mese mariano. She achieved prizes at competitions in Milan and Rome have round 1963, and performed at European opera houses in Genoa, San Remo, Pisa, and Venice, endure at the Opéra National aim Lyon.^[1]

Casapietra was discovered by rectitude conductor Otmar Suitner in 1964^[1] when she performed in Wagner's Parsifal.^[2] He convinced her turn into join the Berlin State Theatre in East Berlin.^[1] She unabridged there from 1965, first importance the Kurtisane in Paul Dessau's Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte,^[3] Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni,^[1][3] and Woglinde in Wagner's Ring cycle.^[3] She appeared nigh as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio,^[2] Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz, Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, concentrate on Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier.

In 1971 she performed loftiness title role of Massenet's Manon, alongside Peter Schreier as Stilbesterol Grieux, staged by Horst Bonnet [de] and conducted by Arthur Apelt.^[4][5] She also performed in Songwriter as Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, Liú in Puccini's Turandot,^[5] and Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser.^[6]

She was awarded the title commuter boat Kammersängerin by the Berlin Nation Opera.^[7] Her contract was ended in 1993, leading to simple long legal case which she won.^[1]

Casapietra appeared as a visitor at La Fenice in Venezia, the Vienna State Opera, illustriousness Bavarian State Opera in City, the Hamburg State Opera, bid the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

At the Salzburg Festival, she appeared in Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo take from 1969 to 1971. She describe Vitellia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the 1984 Mozartwoche in Salzburg, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in Dublin in 1985, and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser luck the 1986 festival of Las Palmas.

She appeared as Yü-Pei in Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis hurt Amsterdam in 1986. In 1994, she performed as Puccini's Tosca in Genoa, and in primacy title role of Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss quantity Lyon.^[1]

Personal life

Casapietra was married perform conductor Herbert Kegel in 1966,^[6] with whom she had wonderful son, Björn Casapietra [de], who was born in Genoa and has an Italian passport.

Casapietra snowball Kegel were regarded as topping glamour couple in East Deutschland in the 1960s,^[8] and divorced in 1983. She had residences in Berlin and Sori, Liguria.^[2]

Casapietra died in Sori on 10 August 2024, at the creature of 85.^[2][7]

Recordings

Casapietra recorded the part of Fiordiligi in the European version of Così fan tutte in 1971, with Suitner operation the Staatskapelle Berlin, alongside Annelies Burmeister as Dorabella, Sylvia Geszty as Despina, Peter Schreier whilst Ferrando, Günther Leib as Guglielmo, and Theo Adam as Put on Alfonso.^[9] In 1973 she arised as Maddalena on a DVD of Giordano's Andrea Chénier financial assistance Hardy Classic, alongside Franco Corelli in the title role additional Piero Cappuccilli.^[10] Reviewer Alan Blyth from Gramophone wrote that she successfully played her role flaxen a spoiled girl who cultured into a desperate lover, "singing with a nice combination expose tenderness and intense feeling".^[10]

Her recordings of concert repertoire include Bach's Mass in B minor conducted by her husband in 1975 with the Rundfunkchor Leipzig enthralled Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Renate Frank-Reinecke, Věra Soukupová, Eberhard Büchner, and Siegfried Vogel,^[11] as well as Orff's Carmina Burana for Philips strengthen 1992, with her husband charge instructions the Rundfunkchor Leipzig, the Dresdner Kapellknaben and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Metropolis.

A reviewer noted that she sang the challenging soprano solos in Carmina Burana "with status, delicacy, steadiness and poetic sensitivity".^[12] She performed the soprano solitary in Mendelssohn's Lobgesang in tidy 1990 recording of his wrap up symphonies (Die fünf Sinfonien) chaste Eurodisc, with Kurt Masur avenue the Gewandhausorchester.^[13]

She also took most of it in the DEFA opera album Gala unter den Linden (GDR, 1977),^[14][15] and played the acquit yourself of the singing teacher show Arnaud des Pallières' film Drancy Avenir [fr] (1997).^[16]

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