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Barbara Frittoli
12+ albums
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Born in Milan, Barbara Frittoli graduated with the highest honours at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan where she studied with Giovanna Canetti. She later was the winner of several international competitions. Among her career’s most remarkable performances were Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa d’Almaviva) in Ferrara in 1994, Otello (Desdemona) at the Salzburger Österfestspiele (1996) and at the Teatro Regio di Torino (1997) under Claudio Abbado, Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) in 1994 at the Wiener Staatsoper, the same opera again at the Wiener Staatsoper (1997, 2002) and at the Ravenna Festival under Riccardo Muti and in 1998 at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden with Colin Davis, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in 1997 with the Berliner Philarmoniker in Paris under Claudio Abbado, Don Giovanni at the Salzburger Festspiele with Lorin Maazel in 1999, Turandot (Liù) in 1997 at the Opéra Bastille under Georges Prêtre and in 1998 in a tour in China with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Zubin Mehta. In 1998 she gained a great personal success in a recital with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti in Beirut and subsequently in Jerusalem in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem again with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and Riccardo Muti. She has recently returned to Metropolitan as Desdemona in Otello with James Levine, a role which she has performed in Brussels (1994 with Antonio Pappano), Vienna (1999), Nice (2001), Florence (2003; under the baton of Zubin Me
top songs
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Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì"
232Verdi : Il Trovatore : Act 4 "Timor di me? ... D'amor sull'ali rosee ... Tu vedrai che amore"
193Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Prelude
184Idomeneo KV 366, Act 1, Scene VI: Aria: Tutte nel cor vi sento (Elettra)
185Idomeneo KV 366, Act 2, Scene III: Recitativo: Frettolosa e giuliva Elettra vien (Idomeneo)/Scene IV: Recitativo: Chi mai del mio provò piacer più dolce? (Elettra)
176Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - "O soave fanciulla"
167Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - "Si sente meglio?"
168Il Trovatore / Act 1 : "Che più t'arresti?"
159"Pagliaccio, mio marito"
1510Verdi: Il trovatore, Act 4: "Timor di me? ... D'amor sull'ali rosee ... Tu vedrai che amore"
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