Mara Zampieri

Zampieri (right) with José Carlos Xavier and Elisabete Matos in 2011, at S. Carlos Opera, Lisbon.

Mara Zampieri (born 30 January 1941[1] in Padua)[2] is an Italian operatic soprano. She trained at Padua Conservatory.

Zampieri has performed in the opera houses of Europe, including Milan, London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Vienna; also in San Francisco, New York, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. She has performed in more than fifty operatic roles, including twenty-one in operas by Verdi.

She favors Italian but she also famously performed in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome.[3]

She can be seen on video as Lady Macbeth opposite Renato Bruson, and as Minnie in La fanciulla del West.[4]

References

  1. ^ Elizabeth Forbes (2001). "Zampieri, Mara". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41985.
  2. ^ Warrack and West (1996); Kennedy and Bourne (2007)
  3. ^ Kennedy and Bourne (2007). According to the biography on her official website she was the first Italian singer to perform the role in the original German in Vienna.
  4. ^ Mara Zampieri at IMDb

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