Anna Caterina Antonacci

Anna Caterina Antonacci was born in Ferrara, Italy on April 5, 1961.{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Antonacci, Anna Caterina |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900150|author=Elizabeth Forbes}} She studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo. In 1994, she made her Royal Opera debut as Elcia in Mosè in Egitto.{{Cite web|url=http://www.roh.org.uk/people/anna-caterina-antonacci|title=Anna Caterina Antonacci – People|website=The Royal Opera|access-date=2019-09-03}} She appeared there again in 2006 with Jonas Kaufman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfcv.org/events-calendar/artist-spotlight/anna-caterina-antonacci-beyond-compare|title=Anna Caterina Antonacci, Beyond Compare|website=San Francisco Classical Voice|access-date=2019-09-03}} She was profiled at length by The New York Times in March 2012.Woolfe, Zachary (30 March 2012). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/arts/music/anna-caterina-antonacci-italian-soprano.html?pagewanted=all "A Career That Moves in Mysterious Ways"]. The New York Times In 2013, she appeared in La voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique.{{Cite web|url=https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2014/5/Features/Road_Show__Anna_Caterina_Antonacci_in_Paris.html|title=Road Show: Anna Caterina Antonacci in Paris|website=Opera News|access-date=2019-09-03}} She has been married until his 2023 cancer death with water polo player Luca Giustolisi, with whom she had a son, Gillo.{{cite news |last1=Carrella |first1=Franco |title=Pallanuoto in lutto: addio all’ex azzurro Giustolisi |url=https://www.gazzetta.it/Nuoto/14-09-2023/pallanuoto-lutto-addio-all-ex-azzurro-giustolisi-470924171443.shtml |access-date=16 September 2023 |work=La Gazzetta dello Sport |date=14 September 2023 |language=it-IT}}

• Bellini: Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
• Berlioz: Cassandre (Les Troyens), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Cléopâtre (La mort de Cléopâtre)
• Bizet: Carmen (Carmen)
• Cherubini: Medea (Medea)
• Cimarosa:Orazia (Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi)
• Donizetti: Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda)
• Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride)
• Halévy: Rachel (La Juive)
• Handel: Agrippina (Agrippina), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), Serse (Serse)
• Manfroce: Polyxena (Ecuba)
• Massenet: Charlotte (Werther)
• Mayr: Clotilde (La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa)
• Monteverdi: both Poppea and Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
• Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Elettra (Idomeneo)
• Paisiello: Elfrida (Elfrida), Nina (Nina)
• Puccini: Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
• Rossini: Rosina (Il barbiere di siviglia), Dorliska (Torvaldo e Dorliska), Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Semiramide (Semiramide), Ermione (Ermione), Elisabetta (Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra), Elena (La donna del lago), Zelmira (Zelmira), Elcia (Mosè in Egitto), Anaï (Moïse), Angelina (La Cenerentola)
• Verdi: Flora (La traviata), both Alice Ford and Meg Page (Falstaff), Marchesa del Poggio (Un giorno di regno)

Operas

• Berlioz: Les Troyens, John Eliot Gardiner, Théâtre du Châtelet
• Bizet: Carmen, Antonio Pappano, Covent Garden
• Handel: Rodelinda, William Christie, Glyndebourne Opera
• Marschner: Hans Heiling, {{ill|Renato Palumbo|it}}, Cagliari Opera
• Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Ivor Bolton, Bavarian State Opera
• Mozart: Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Gustav Kuhn, {{ill|Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana|it}}
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, Riccardo Muti, Vienna State Opera
• Rossini: Ermione, Andrew Davis, Glyndebourne
• Verdi: Falstaff (Meg Page), Riccardo Muti, La Scala

Solo

• Era La Notte/Anna Caterina Antonacci (Monteverdi, Strozzi, Giramo)
• Monteverdi, Giramo, Strozzi, Carissimi, Cesti: "Lamenti Barocchi" Sergio Vartolo, Naxos 1995

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• Christiansen, Rupert, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/3656018/The-Callas-of-our-time.html "The Callas of our time?"], The Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006. Accessed 26 February 2009.
• Duchen, Jessica, [http://www.operanews.com/operanews/templates/content.aspx?id=19964 "Prima Donna Autentica"], Opera News, June 2011, Vol. 75, No. 12.
• Fisher, Neil, [https://archive.today/20110616193519/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article5524729.ece "Anna Caterina Antonacci: the riddle of the sphinx"], The Times, 16 January 2009. Accessed 26 February 2009.
• [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O900150 "Antonacci, Anna Caterina"] by Elizabeth Forbes, Grove Music Online. Accessed via subscription 25 February 2009.

• [http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/singers/soprano/anna-caterina-antonacci Anna Caterina Antonacci], Askonas Holt Artists' Management
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130304081028/http://operalively.com/forums/content.php/557-Opera-Lively-Exclusive-Interview-with-Anna-Caterina-Antonacci Interview with Antonacci]}} by Luiz Gazzola, July 2012, Opera Lively
• [https://www.operabase.com/a/anna-caterina-antonacci/1283/en Anna Caterina Antonacci], Operabase

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