Raquel Pierotti

Raquel Pierotti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay{{cite web|title=Homenaje a Raquel Pierotti|url=http://www.juntamvd.gub.uy/es/archivos/actas/710-ho08092010.pdf|website=Parlamento de Montevideo|access-date=25 January 2012|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030843/http://www.juntamvd.gub.uy/es/archivos/actas/710-ho08092010.pdf|url-status=dead}} where she got her graduation at the National Opera School and made her operatic debut in 1973 as Damigella nuziale in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro. During the next six years she worked in many operatic productions singing Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto as well as in many chamber and symphonic concerts. She won the First Prize in the "Maurice Ravel National Contest" and in the "Artigas - Washington Contest". In 1979 she moved to Spain. She won the "Plácido Domingo Award" in 1979 and the 2º Grand Prix in 1980 both in the "Francisco Viñas Singing Competition".{{cite web

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}} In the same year she won the First Prize in the "Mozart Singing Competition" organized by Barcelona's Mozarteum and the Gold Medal from Radio Nacional de España (Spanish National Broadcasting) given to the most promising debutant of the season.{{cite web |title=Biografia in Spanish|url=http://server.lepetitdot.com/porta/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163:raquel-pierotti&catid=51:cantantes&Itemid=67&lang=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127222555/http://server.lepetitdot.com/porta/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163:raquel-pierotti&catid=51:cantantes&Itemid=67&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2013 |website=Pere Porta Concerts|access-date=25 January 2012}}

In 1980 made her operatic début in Spain at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona as Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. The following year she made her European débuts at the Opera de Paris as Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville, as well as at La Scala, Milan, as Marcellina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Since then she has been a frequent guest at La Scala where she sang Clarice in La pietra del paragone (Rossini), Smeton in Anna Bolena (Donizetti), Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini), Maddalena in Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini), Cecilio in Lucio Silla (Mozart), and Fenena in Nabucco (Verdi) for the 1986/1987 Season Opening Night as well as in the tournées in Berlin, Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama) and Bulgaria (Sofia, Varna).

On November 2. 1988 she was invited to sing in a concert celebrating the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain Doña Sofía.

She has worked with renowned conductors as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Chailly, Julius Rudel, John Eliot Gardiner, Jesús López Cobos, Sir John Pritchard, Alain Lombard, Lorin Maazel... and directors as Giorgio Strehler, Jean Pierre Ponnelle, Eduardo De Filippo, Patrice Chéreau, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Roberto de Simone, Luca Ronconi, Lluis Pasqual, Jérôme Savary, Beni Montresor, Gabriele Lavia, Jorge Lavelli, José Carlos Plaza...

She has appeared at most of the well-known opera houses in Italy such as Milan, Rome, Naples, Pesaro, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Genoa, Parma, Palermo and Verona among others as well as outside Italy in Barcelona, Sevilla, Madrid, Vienna, Stuttgart, Munich, Brussels, Geneva, Paris, Lyon, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Montevideo, Mexico, Caracas, Pretoria, Tokyo, Washington...

Among her activities are recitals of Spanish and Latin American music as well as "Zarzuela".

She has created the role of "Tatula" from the opera Divinas palabras in the opening season (1997/ 98) at the Teatro Real (Madrid), singing with Plácido Domingo.

In 1999 she sang La vida breve in Lyon, Grenoble and La Coruña, and El amor brujo and Siete conciones Populares Españolas in Lyon, Palermo, Montevideo, Porto Alegre, Varsaw, Dortmund and Pamplona.

In 2000 she sang a concert in Hannover, representing Spain in occasion of the World Fair.

In April 2002 and 2004 she sang Babel 46 (Montsalvatge) and L'enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel) at the Teatro Real (Madrid) and Liceo de Barcelona.

She sang the role of Mariana (Luisa Fernanda) in Scala di Milano (2003), Teatro Real (Madrid) (2006) and Theathr an der Wien (Vienna) (2008) all with Plácido Domingo.

In 2004 and 2007 she sang Boris Godunov (Nurse) at Liceo de Barcelona and Teatro Real (Madrid).

In August 2009 she sang the leading role of "La casa de Bernanda Alba" (Bernarda), created by the young Spanish composer Miquel Ortega, in Santander Festival and Perelada Festival.

In 2005 she has been member of the jury in the prestigious "Francisco Viñas" and "Manuel Ausensi" singing contests.{{cite web |title=Bio, Raquel Pierotti|url=http://www.cartelera.com.uy/ver_artista.php?id=717 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721171107/http://www.cartelera.com.uy/ver_artista.php?id=717 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 21, 2012 |website=Cartelera|access-date=25 January 2012}}

During her career she sang : Sextus and Cornelia (Giulio Cesare);{{cite web |title=Handel: Giulio Cesare|url=https://www.amazon.com/Handel-Giulio-Cesare-Georg-Friedrich/dp/B002OM7QHW/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327523489&sr=1-3|work=CD Album: Handel: Giulio Cesare|publisher=Nuova Era/Naxos|access-date=25 January 2012}} Siebel (Faust);{{cite web |title=Siebel - Raquel Pierotti|url=http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLGOFAUS.HTM |website=Operadis – Opera Discography |access-date=28 January 2012}} Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro); Cecilio (Lucio Silla); Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte); Zerlina (Don Giovanni); Angelina (La Cenerentola); Arsace (Semiramide); Isabella (L'Italiana in Algeri); Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia){{cite book|last=McCants|first=Clyde T. |title=American Opera Singers and their Recordings|year=2004|publisher=McFarland and Company |page=245|isbn=0-7864-1952-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQzItLSQWtUC&q=il+barbiere+di+siviglia+raquel+pierotti+teatro&pg=PA245}} Andromaca (Ermione); Maddalena (Il viaggio a Reims); Clarice (La pietra del paragone); Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice); Fidalma (Il matrimonio segreto); Leonora (La Favorita); Adalgisa (Norma); Smeton (Anna Bolena); Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda); Carmen (Carmen); Sara (Roberto Devereux); Romeo (Capuleti e Montecchi); Agnese (Beatrice di Tenda); Giulietta (Les contes d'Hoffmann); Salud and la Abuela (La vida breve); Ottavia (L'incoronazione di Poppea); Preziosilla (La forza del destino); Meg and Quickly (Falstaff ); Climene (Saffo); Suzuki (Madama Butterfly); Berenice (Il Farnace); Vagans (Juditha triumphans); Mrs. Slender (Falstaff-Salieri), Cecilia (Las Golondrinas), Zulima (Los amantes de Teruel), Aurora (Doña Francisquita), Señá Rita (La verbena de la Paloma), Mariana (Luisa Fernanda), Nurse (Boris Godunov)...{{cite web|title=Raquel Pierotti Bio|url=http://www.teatrosolis.org.uy/hnnoticia.cgi?1594|website=Teatro Solis Uruguay|access-date=28 January 2012}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• Rossini: Stabat Mater, Petite Messe Sollennelle, Argene e Melania and Giovanna D'Arco
• Haendel: Messiah
• Mozart: Coronation Mass and Requiem
• Beethoven: Symphony nª 9
• Pablo Casals: El pessebre
• Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
• Stravinsky: Pulcinella
• Bach: Magnificat
• Jaume Alaquer: Requiem {{cite web |title=Jaume Alaquer: Requiem|url=http://www.menorcaweb.com/news/2001/10/cd-missa-de-requiem-by-jaume-alaquer/|website=Menorca Web|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• Tomás Bretón: Apocalipsis
• Verdi: Requiem
• Mendelssohn: Paulus
• Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans

• Il barbiere di Siviglia - Berta (Riccardo Chailly){{cite web |title=Il Barbiere di Siviglia| year=1994 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Rossini-barbiere-Siviglia-Chailly-Highlights/dp/B00000290X/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327775290&sr=1-4|publisher=Sony|access-date=28 January 2012}}
• Il viaggio a Reims - Maddalena (Claudio Abbado) {{cite web |title=Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims|url=https://www.amazon.com/Rossini-Viaggio-Reims-Gioachino/dp/B0013816F6/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327523489&sr=1-4|work=CD Album: Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims|publisher=Deutsche Grammophon|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• Le comte Ory - Ragonde (John Eliot Gardiner) {{cite web |title=Le comte Ory|url=https://www.amazon.com/Rossini-Comte-Ory-Gioachino/dp/B00000E3VK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327520109&sr=8-2|publisher=Polygram Records|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• Giulio Cesare - Cornelia (Marcello Panni)
• The Concert Mozart for Africa with Montserrat Caballé
• Doña Francisquita - Aurora with Alfredo Kraus, (Antoni Ros-Marbá) {{cite web |title=Amadeo Vives: Dona Francisquita|url=https://www.amazon.com/Amadeo-Vives-Dona-Francisquita/dp/B00005Q77Q|work=CD Album: Amadeo Vives: Dona Francisquita|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• La verbena de la Paloma - Señá Rita and La Dolores-Gaspara both with Plácido Domingo (Antoni Ros-Marbá) {{cite web |title=La Verbena de la Paloma|url=https://www.amazon.com/Tom%C3%A1s-Bret%C3%B3n-Verbena-Tomas-Breton/dp/B00005Q77S/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327528440&sr=1-1|work=CD Album: Tomás Bretón: La Verbena de la Paloma|publisher=Naive|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• Viento es la dicha de amor-Amor (Christophe Coin)
• El pessebre (Lawrence Foster);
• Il Farnace - Berenice (Massimiliano Carraro) {{cite web|title=Vivaldi: Farnace|url=https://www.amazon.com/Vivaldi-Farnace-Antonio/dp/B0000036CK/ref=sr_1_12?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327522325&sr=1-12|publisher=Nuova Era|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• El llibre vermell (Antoni Ros-Marbá),
• Requiem - Jaume Alaquer (Joan Company)
• Luisa Fernanda - Mariana (Jesús López Cobos)
• Falstaff - Meg (Daniel Oren)
• Nabucco - Fenena (Riccardo Muti) {{cite web |title=Verdi: Nabucco|url=https://www.amazon.com/Verdi-Nabucco-Dimitrova-Burchuladze-Pierotti/dp/B00019GH8E/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327523489&sr=1-5|work=DVD: Verdi: Nabucco|publisher=Kultur|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• Hommage à Rossini (TV 1985) {{cite web|title=Hommage à Rossini|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253132/combined|publisher=NHK (1992) (Japan) (TV) (cut version)|access-date=25 January 2012}}{{rs|date=May 2022}}

• Maurice Ravel National Contest
• Artigas - Washington Contest
• Plácido Domigo Award
• Francisco Viñas Singing Competition
• Mozart Singing Competition, Barcelona's Mozarteum
• Gold Medal from Radio Nacional de España
• Alas Awards 2010 {{cite news |title=Premios Alas 2010|url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/100908/pespec-513766/espectaculos/Hoy-se-entregan-los-premios-Alas-2010/|newspaper=El Pais |location=Uruguay|access-date=25 January 2012}}
• Intendencia de Montevideo Homage {{cite web|website=Junta Departamental Montevideo|title=Homenaje a Raquel Pierotti Olazábal |url=http://www.juntamvd.gub.uy/es/actividades/721-homenaje-a-raquel-pierotti-olazabal.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101021235434/http://www.juntamvd.gub.uy/es/actividades/721-homenaje-a-raquel-pierotti-olazabal.html |archive-date=2010-10-21 |access-date=25 January 2012}}

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• {{IMDb name|id=0682593|name=Raquel Pierotti}}
• [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Raquel+Pierotti/a/albums.htm/ Raquel's Discography at CD Universe]
• [https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=raquel+pierotti&x=0&y=0/ Raquel's Discography at Amazon]
• [http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/result?SearchString=raquel+pierotti/ Raquel's Discography at Deutsche Grammophon]
• {{YouTube|jCPB4G-K3RY|Raquel singing "Una voce poco fa", Teatro Regio di Torino 1991}}
• [http://video.sonicomusica.com/video/yt-r2tQWORVGY4/pierotti-y-domingo-cantan-duo-de-aurora-y-fernando// Raquel sings with Placido Domingo]{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• {{YouTube|OBHrIIMsEyQ|Raquel sings with Montserrat Caballé}}
• {{YouTube|59pzHO-JP_U|Raquel sings with Rockwell Blake}}
• {{YouTube|9a0oWeUFNvo|Raquel sings with Alfredo Kraus}}
• {{YouTube|id=AezeLbjRz7g&list=PL7A4E5933B2AB8B47|title=Raquel sings at the Rossini Homage}}

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