Desirée Rancatore

Desirée Rancatore
Desirée Rancatore
Background information
Birth name	Desirée Rancatore
Born	29 January 1977 (1977-01-29) (age 34) Palermo, Italy
Genres	Opera
Occupations	Opera singer (soprano)
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1996–present
Website	Desiree Rancatore.jpg

Desirée Rancatore (born 1977 in Palermo, Sicily) is an Italian coloratura soprano of the operatic stage.

Biography

Desirée Rancatore studied violin and piano before beginning, at the age of 16, to extend her study of singing with her mother and, in Rome, with Margaret Baker Genovesi. At the age of 19 she debuted as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro in Salzburg Festival. She returned to the Festival with Die Entfhürung aus dem Serail, Don Carlo (conducted by Lorin Maazel), Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Honegger), Piramo e Tisbe (conducted by Fabio Biondi), and concerts in the Salzburg Mozarteum

She sung for the first time in Italy in 1997 at the opening of the season at the Teatro Regio in Parma L’Arlesiana de Francesco Cilèa). At the age of 21 she debuted in the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier) and sang her first Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann (Catania). She has performed the role also at the Opéra National in Paris, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, at the Zurich Ópera, at the Massimo in Palermo, at the Opera in Rome, the Regio Theatre in Turin^[1] and Parma, the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole, the Teatro Real in Madrid, la Scala in Milan, the Sferisterio in Macerata, the Orange Opera Festival and the Vienna Staatsoper.

Another of the roles she is known for is Gilda from Rigoletto, which she has performed in Melbourne, San Francisco,^[2] Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tokyo, Venice, Mexico, Vienna, Verona, Parma, Beijing, Florence and Zurich.

She debuted in the lead role in Lucia di Lammermoor in the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo in the 2005-06 season, later doing a tour of Japan in this role, which included Tokyo. She sang the role again in the Oviedo Opera, in the Zurich Opera, the Comunale in Bologna, the Cilèa in Reggio Calabria and in the Comunale in Ferrara.

Another of her roles is Adina from L’elisir d’amore, which she debuted in Laurent Pelly’s production at the Bastille Opera in Paris and which she performed again in the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and in La Fenice in Venice. She debuted the lead role in Delibes’ Lakmé, which she has sung in Palermo, the Campoamor in Oviedo and in the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. In December 2004, at the reopening of La Scala in Milan, she sang the role of Sémele in Salieri’s L’Europa riconosciuta, conducted by Riccardo Muti. She was invited to open the 2005-6 season at the Bologna Comunale in a new production of Ascanio in Alba and in October 2008 she made her debut as Elvira in Bellini’s I Puritani in Palermo. In 2010 she debuted the role of Amina from La Sonnambula in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In concert she has also performed as a soloist in the Petite Messe Solennelle in Paris and in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor in Salzburg, in Mozart’s Requiem (Massimo, Palermo), Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (Paris, Radio France National Orchestra, conducted by Muti). She also participated in the opening concert of the 2003-04 season at La Scala and has sung with the Turin RAI Symphonic Orchestra and, in a gala alongside Bryn Terfel and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, as well as a Spanish tour with the Catania Massimo Bellini Philharmonic. In 2011 she sung the New Year’s Concert at La Fenice.

Discography

• Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdi. DVD, Opus Arte 1999
• Der Rosenkavalier, Richard Strauss. DVD, Brilliant Classic 2000
• Die Entfhürung aus dem Serail, Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart. CD, Telarc 2001
• Die Zauberflöte, Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart. DVD, TDK 2001
• Les Huguenots, Giacomo Meyerbeer. CD, Dynamic 2001
• La cambiale di matrimonio, Gioacchino Rossini. CD, Dynamic 2002
• Mozart in Turkey. DVD, BBC 2003
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach. DVD, TDK 2004^[3]
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach. DVD, Dynamic 2005
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti. DVD, Dynamic 2007
• Ascanio in Alba, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. DVD, Bongiovanni 2008
• La cambiale di matrimonio, Gioacchino Rossini. DVD, Naxos 2008
• Die Vögel, Walter Braunfels. DVD, Arthaus Musik 2009
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti. CD, Naxos 2010
• New Years Concert La Fenice. DVD, Hardy 2011

Honours and awards

• 1995: Ibla de Ragusa Award
• 1995: Vincenzo Bellini de Caltanissetta Prize
• 1996: Maria Caniglia de Sulmona Award
• 2004: Medaglia d'Oro Città di Milano Award
• 2008: Mimosa d'Oro Award
• 2008: Kaleidos Award
• 2008: Ester Mazzoleni Special Prize
• 2009: Zenatello Award
• 2010: Oscar della lirica, Verona

References

1. ^ Review, The Opera Critic
2. ^ Review San Francisco Opera, So I've Heard
3. ^ Classical Notes Review

External links

• Desirée Rancatore Offical Fan Blog

Persondata
Name	Desirée Rancatore
Alternative names
Short description	Opera Singer
Date of birth	1997
Place of birth	Palermo, Italy
Date of death
Place of death