Daniela Dessì
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Daniela Dessì Born May 14, 1957, in Genoa, Italy is an Italian
Italian people
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 lirico-spinto soprano
Soprano
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.

Daniela Dessì completed her singing studies at the Conservatory of Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

 and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena
Siena
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...

. After having won the first prize at the International Competition organized by RAI
RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

 TV in 1980, she had her debut with the comic opera La serva padrona
La serva padrona
La serva padrona is an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi to a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. The opera is only 45 minutes long and was originally performed as an intermezzo between the acts of a larger serious opera...

by Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...

. Her international career has taken her to the best Opera theatres, singing under the direction of the greatest orchestra conductors, such as Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...

, Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...

, James Levine
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of May 2011 he has...

 and others.

Her season 2008-2009 began with Tosca in Florence (where she gave an encore of "Vissi d'arte" - it has been 52 years since this happened to Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period...

), then at the Verdi Theatre in Trieste
Trieste
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, Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo, La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West
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in Seville, Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut
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in Warsaw
Warsaw
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, Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...

in Hanover
Hanover
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 and Aida
Aida
Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...

in Verona and Cagliari, and she closes the season in Barcelona
Barcelona
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 (Turandot
Turandot
Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot...

); in January 2009 she opened the season of recital at La Scala.

Awards

  • Premio Flaviano Labó (2010)
  • Premio Operaclick (2009)
  • Premio Città di Varese
    Varese
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     (2009)
  • Premio Myrta Gabardi (2009)
  • Pentagramma d'Oro Comune di Marnate
    Marnate
    Marnate is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km south of Varese...

     (2009)
  • Premio Abbiati (2008)
  • Regina della Lirica dalla Associazione Tiberini a San Lorenzo in Campo (2007)
  • Premio Le Muse (2007)
  • Premio Zenatello Arena di Verona
  • Premio Giordano Comune di Baveno
    Baveno
    Baveno is a town and comune in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, part of Piedmont, northern Italy. It is located on the west shore of Lago Maggiore, 13 miles North West of Arona by rail....

  • Premio Giacomo Puccini Torre del Lago
  • Premio Cilea di Reggio Calabria
    Reggio Calabria
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  • Gigli d’Oro Comune di Recanati
    Recanati
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  • Premio Liguria Comune di Genova
  • Premio E. Mazzoleni Palermo
    Palermo
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  • Mascagni d’Oro Bagnara di Romagna
  • Premio Giuditta Pasta Saronno
    Saronno
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Discography

  • La Traviata. Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, conductor John Neschling. SoloVoce
  • Puccini Arias. Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, conductor Marco Boemi. Decca
  • Daniela Dessì sings Verdi. Orchestra della Fondazione Toscanini, conductor Steven Mercurio. Decca
  • Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier. Armiliato, Guelfi, Rinaldi; Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi Milano, conductor : Vjekoslav Šutej
    Vjekoslav Šutej
    Vjekoslav Šutej was a prominent Croatian orchestral conductor.-Overview:Šutej studied conducting under Igor Gjadrov at the Zagreb Music Academy, before obtaining his Master of Music degree in Rome in the class of Franco Ferrara.From 1979 to 1989 he was art director and chief conductor at the...

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  • Love Duets. conductor : Marco Boemi. Philips
  • Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly. Armiliato, Pons, conductor : Plácido Domingo. Dynamic
  • Giacomo Puccini, Tosca. Armiliato, Raimondi. Opus Arte (BBC)
  • Giuseppe Verdi, Aida. Armiliato, Fiorillo. Opus Arte (BBC)
  • Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut. Armiliato, Vanaud, Mercurio. Real Sound
  • Enrico Toselli, Le Romanze Ritrovate. Armiliato, piano: Leonardo Previero. Real Sound
  • Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur. Borodina, Larin, Guelfi; Rizzi-Brignoli. TDK
  • Domenico Cimarosa, Gli Orazii e i Curiazii. Angeloni, Bolognesi, Alaimo; conductor : De Bernart. Bongiovanni
  • Antonio Vivaldi, Il Farnace. Dupuy, Angeloni, Malakova, Gamberucci; conductor: De Bernart. Arkadia Fonit Cetra/Agora Musica
  • Gioachino Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia. Raffanti, Depuy, Portella; conductor : Zedda. Frequenz
  • Gioachino Rossini, Ciro in Babilonia. Palacio, Calvi, Antonucci; conductor : Rizzi. Bongiovanni

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