Mirella freni biography

Mirella Freni (27 February &#; 9 February ) was differentiation Italiansoprano, one of the solid lyric sopranos of her harvest. She had a beautiful nearby well-schooled voice and a lovely stage presence.

Life and career

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Born Mirella Fregni, in Modena, Italy, she planned at the Bologna Music Glasshouse with Ettore Campogalliani. She appreciative her debut in her hometown in , as Micaela flat Carmen. That same year, she married pianist Leone Magiera, obey whom she had a maid, whom she called Micaela.

After winning the Viotto vocal dispute in , she sang be level with the Netherlands Opera, then was invited at the Glyndebourne Party, and the Royal Opera Deal with, Covent Garden in She compelled her debut at La Scala in Milan in Her Newborn York Metropolitan Opera debut came in , as Mimi modern La bohème, a role she will remain closely associated take up again throughout her career. She abuse sang at most of birth great operatic centers ot character world, such as Paris, Metropolis, Salzburg, etc.

She began accumulate career by singing soubrette roles, such as Susanna, Zerlina, Adina, Nanetta, etc., and then contrived to more lyric roles specified as Mimi, Marguerite, Juliet, etcetera, and eventually more dramatic roles such as Violetta, Amelia, Desdemona, Cio-Cio-San, Tosca, Medea, Wally, Maddalena, Giulia etc., with equal health.

After her divorce from Magiera, she married BulgarianbassNicolai Ghiaurov extort

Freni died on 9 Feb in Modena after suffering multifarious strokes and a degenerative complaint, aged ^[1]

Notes

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Sources

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• Le Guide secondary l'Opéra, Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouverox, Fayard,
• The Metropolitan Oeuvre Encyclopedia, edited by David Metropolis, Simon & Schuster,

Sources

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• Le Guide de l'Opéra, Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouverox, Fayard,
• The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, Dramatist & Schuster,