Mara Zampieri

Mara Zampieri (b. January 30th 1951, Padua)^[1] is an operatic soprano. She trained at Padua Conservatory.

She has performed in the opera houses of Europe, including London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona and Vienna; also in San Francisco, New York, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. She has performed in more than fifty operatic roles, including twenty-one in operas by Verdi.

She favors Italian but she also famously performed in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome.^[2]

She can be seen on video as Lady Macbeth opposite Renato Bruson, and as Minnie in The Girl of the Golden West.^[3]

Notes and references

1. ^ Warrack and West (1996); Kennedy and Bourne (2007)
2. ^ Kennedy and Bourne (2007). According to the biography on her official website she was the first Italian singer to perform the role in the original German in Vienna.
3. ^ IMDB

Sources

• IMDB, Mara Zampieri
• Hoffman, Sarah, "Mara Zampieri: A Tribute to Verdi", Opera Today, 10 May 2005
• Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.), "Mara Zampieri", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2007. (republished on Answers.com).
• Warrack, John Hamilton and West, Ewan, "Zampieri, Mara", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0192800280

External links

• Official website

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Name	Zampieri, Mara
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Short description	Italian Opera singer
Date of birth	1951
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