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[[File:Berrugi, Agresta, Macheda.jpg|thumb|<center>Maria Agresta with tenor [[Giorgio Berrugi]] and her manager Gianluca Macheda (2016). </center>]]
'''Maria Giovanna Agresta''' (born 16 July 1978) is an Italian opera and concert singer [[soprano]].
== Life ==
Born in [[Vallo della Lucania]], Agresta obtained her diploma at the in [[Salerno]] with top marks and then completed her studies with [[Raina Kabaivanska]] in Modena. In 2006 she gave her debuts in Spoleto as Rosina in ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'' and as Selene in [[Baldassare Galuppi]]'s ''Didone abbandonata''. She made her debut in 2007 as Micaëla in ''[[Carmen]]'' in Messina and as Desdemona in ''[[Otello (Verdi)|Otello]]'' in various venues.
Further roles from the Italian repertoire followed; especially her debut as Duchessa Elena in ''[[I vespri siciliani]]'' at the [[Teatro Regio di Torino]] in 2011 brought her wide recognition.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2RsuRrI Kurzportrait von Maria Agresta], Salzburger Nachrichten vom 27. Juli 2015.</ref> Since then she has also been a sought-after guest at [[La Scala]] in Milan and other important opera houses such as the [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]], [[La Fenice]] in Venice, the [[Bayerische Staatsoper|Bayerischen Staatsoper München]], the [[Staatsoper Unter den Linden]] Berlin, the [[Semperoper]] in Dresden, the [[Royal Opera House]] London and the [[Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía]] Valencia. In 2015 she appeared for the first time at the [[Salzburg Easter Festival]]s as stage partner of [[Jonas Kaufmann]] in the role of Nedda in ''[[Pagliacci]]''.<ref>Rezension von kultur24.berlin zu [http://bit.ly/2GPiIce ''Cavalleria Rusticana + Pagliacci'' bei den Salzburger Osterfestspielen 2015]</ref> She made her debut at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] (New York) in January 2016 in the role of Mimi in [[La Bohème]].<ref>[https://nyti.ms/2RsuRIe "Review: In ‘Turandot’ and ‘La Bohème,’ a New Depth of Emotion"], New York Times, 14 January 2016.</ref> At the [[Salzburg Festival]]s in August 2016 she made a much acclaimed role debut in the French repertoire as Marguerite in Gounod's [[Faust (Gounod)|Faust]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2blAsZl Rezension der Premiere von Gounds Faust bei den Salzburger Festspielen 2016], ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'' (11 August 2016).</ref> 2017 followed further engagements at the Metropolitan Opera as Micaëla in [[Carmen]] in January<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) and as Liù in [[Turandot]] in October</ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) In 2014 Agresta was awarded the XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana. Here is the English translation of the reason:
"This lyrical soprano voice of the greatest purity, with an exquisite timbre and noble timbres, has been a major part of the great Italian tradition, of a repertoire comprising various personalities, from Elvira in ''[[I puritani]]'' to Liù in ''[[Turandot]]''. In 2013, she made significant contributions to the interpretation of Verdi operas from the galley years (note the early creative phase), with ''[[I masnadieri]]'' oat [[La Fenice]] and ''[[Oberto conte di San Bonifacio]]'' at [[la Scala]], as well as from the ripening period, with ''[[Otello (Verdi)|Otello]]'' at the [[Teatro Carlo Felice]]<ref>[http://bit.ly/2GMo2Nt XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana a Maria Agresta]</ref>
== Repertoire ==
Maria Agresta appeared among others with the following roles at important [[Opera house]]s:
{| class="wikitable" border="0" style="background:#ffffff" align="top" class="sortable wikitable"
|+ align="center" style="background:DarkSlateBlue; color:white" |'''Operatic repertoire'''
|-
! width="200 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black"|Role
! style="background:Lavender; color:Black"| Title
! width="70 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black" |Composer
|-
|Norma || ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' || [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]]
|-
|Elvira || ''[[I puritani]]'' || Bellini
|-
|Micaela || ''[[Carmen]]'' || [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]]
|-
|Gemma || ''[[Gemma di Vergy]]'' || [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]
|-
|Selene || ''Didone abbandonata'' || [[Baldassare Galuppi|Galuppi]]
|-
|Marguerite || ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' || [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]]
|-
|Nedda || ''[[Pagliacci]]''
|| [[Ruggero Leoncavallo|Leoncavallo]]
|-
|Donna Elvira || ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' || [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]
|-
|Mimì || ''[[La bohème]]'' || [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]
|-
|Angelica || ''[[Suor Angelica]]'' || Puccini
|-
|Liù || ''[[Turandot]]'' || Puccini
|-
|Rosina || ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'' || [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]]
|-
|Julia || ''[[La Vestale]]'' || [[Gaspare Spontini|Spontini]]
|-
|Leonora || ''[[Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio]]'' || [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]
|-
|Lucrezia Contarini || ''[[I due Foscari]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Odabella || ''[[Attila (opera)|Attila]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Amalia || ''[[I masnadieri]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Leonora || ''[[Il trovatore]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Violetta Valery || ''[[La traviata]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Amelia Grimaldi || ''[[Simon Boccanegra]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Elena || ''[[I vespri siciliani]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Desdemona || ''[[Otello (Verdi)|Otello]]'' || Verdi
|}
Her concert repertoire includes also Rossini's ''[[Stabat Mater (Rossini)|Stabat Mater]]'' and Verdi's ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]''.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2RxGSfP Konzertkritik] Berliner Morgenpost, 2 April 2013.</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Raina Kabaivanska]]
* [[Teatro Lirico Sperimentale]]
== Discography ==
=== Recordings ===
* Galuppi: ''Didone abbandonata'' – Piva/Grasso/Giansanti/Agresta/Carnevale/Carè, Welterstaufnahme 2006 Bongiovanni
* Verdi: ''Sacred Verdi. [[Quattro pezzi sacri]], Libera me, Ave Maria'' – Maria Agresta, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia / [[Antonio Pappano]]. 2014 Warner Classics
=== Video recording on DVD or Blu-ray Disc ===
* [[Gaetano Donizetti]], ''Gemma di Vergy'', Maria Agresta as Gemma. A live recording from the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo; director: Laurent Gerger. Orchestra del Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli. Published by Bongiovanni, 2011.
* Giuseppe Verdi, ''[[I due Foscari]],'' Maria Agresta as Lucrezia Contarini, [[Placido Domingo]] as Francesco Foscari, [[Francesco Meli]] as Jacopo Foscari, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, [[Antonio Pappano]], director: Thaddeus Strassberger. Issued by Opus Arte, 2015.
* Ruggiero Leoncavallo, ''[[Pagliacci]],'' Maria Agresta as Nedda, [[Jonas Kaufmann]] as Canio, [[Staatskapelle Dresden]], [[Christian Thielemann]]. A production of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2015; director: [[Philipp Stölzl]]. Published by Sony, 2015. (also with [[Pietro Mascagni]], ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]''.)
* Giacomo Puccini, ''[[Turandot]],'' Maria Agresta as Liù, [[La Scala]], [[Riccardo Chailly]]. Published by Decca, Jan. 2017.
* Charles Gounod, ''[[Faust (Gounod)|Faust]],'' Maria Agresta as Marguerite, Pjotr Beczala as Faust, Ildar Abdrazakov as Mephisto. Salzburger Festspiele 2016, Philharmonischer Chor Wien, [[Vienna Philharmonic]] under Alejo Perez, director: [[Reinhard von der Thannen]]. Published by EuroArts,<ref>[http://bit.ly/2GNKKoH Euroarts]</ref> July 2017.
== References ==
== External links ==
* [http://bit.ly/163uRfS Maria Agresta] Homepage
* [http://bit.ly/2GMWCqM Scheda su sito gmartandmusic.com]
* [http://bit.ly/2RsuT2O Maria Agresta] on [[Discogs]]
* [http://bit.ly/2GMFC49 Maria Agresta] on Paris Opera website
* [http://bit.ly/2Rmv4wN Maria Agresta] on ResMusica
* [http://bit.ly/2GMWE1S ''Mais qui est donc Maria Agresta ?''] on Forum Opera
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ocKwV1mdU J.Kaufmann & M.Agresta⭐Brevi estratti dal concerto alla Reggia di Caserta] (Youtube)
[[Category:1978 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Campania]]
[[Category:Italian operatic sopranos]]
[[Category:21st-century Italian singers]]
'''Maria Giovanna Agresta''' (born 16 July 1978) is an Italian opera and concert singer [[soprano]].
== Life ==
Born in [[Vallo della Lucania]], Agresta obtained her diploma at the in [[Salerno]] with top marks and then completed her studies with [[Raina Kabaivanska]] in Modena. In 2006 she gave her debuts in Spoleto as Rosina in ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'' and as Selene in [[Baldassare Galuppi]]'s ''Didone abbandonata''. She made her debut in 2007 as Micaëla in ''[[Carmen]]'' in Messina and as Desdemona in ''[[Otello (Verdi)|Otello]]'' in various venues.
Further roles from the Italian repertoire followed; especially her debut as Duchessa Elena in ''[[I vespri siciliani]]'' at the [[Teatro Regio di Torino]] in 2011 brought her wide recognition.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2RsuRrI Kurzportrait von Maria Agresta], Salzburger Nachrichten vom 27. Juli 2015.</ref> Since then she has also been a sought-after guest at [[La Scala]] in Milan and other important opera houses such as the [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]], [[La Fenice]] in Venice, the [[Bayerische Staatsoper|Bayerischen Staatsoper München]], the [[Staatsoper Unter den Linden]] Berlin, the [[Semperoper]] in Dresden, the [[Royal Opera House]] London and the [[Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía]] Valencia. In 2015 she appeared for the first time at the [[Salzburg Easter Festival]]s as stage partner of [[Jonas Kaufmann]] in the role of Nedda in ''[[Pagliacci]]''.<ref>Rezension von kultur24.berlin zu [http://bit.ly/2GPiIce ''Cavalleria Rusticana + Pagliacci'' bei den Salzburger Osterfestspielen 2015]</ref> She made her debut at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] (New York) in January 2016 in the role of Mimi in [[La Bohème]].<ref>[https://nyti.ms/2RsuRIe "Review: In ‘Turandot’ and ‘La Bohème,’ a New Depth of Emotion"], New York Times, 14 January 2016.</ref> At the [[Salzburg Festival]]s in August 2016 she made a much acclaimed role debut in the French repertoire as Marguerite in Gounod's [[Faust (Gounod)|Faust]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2blAsZl Rezension der Premiere von Gounds Faust bei den Salzburger Festspielen 2016], ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'' (11 August 2016).</ref> 2017 followed further engagements at the Metropolitan Opera as Micaëla in [[Carmen]] in January<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) and as Liù in [[Turandot]] in October</ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) In 2014 Agresta was awarded the XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana. Here is the English translation of the reason:
"This lyrical soprano voice of the greatest purity, with an exquisite timbre and noble timbres, has been a major part of the great Italian tradition, of a repertoire comprising various personalities, from Elvira in ''[[I puritani]]'' to Liù in ''[[Turandot]]''. In 2013, she made significant contributions to the interpretation of Verdi operas from the galley years (note the early creative phase), with ''[[I masnadieri]]'' oat [[La Fenice]] and ''[[Oberto conte di San Bonifacio]]'' at [[la Scala]], as well as from the ripening period, with ''[[Otello (Verdi)|Otello]]'' at the [[Teatro Carlo Felice]]<ref>[http://bit.ly/2GMo2Nt XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana a Maria Agresta]</ref>
== Repertoire ==
Maria Agresta appeared among others with the following roles at important [[Opera house]]s:
{| class="wikitable" border="0" style="background:#ffffff" align="top" class="sortable wikitable"
|+ align="center" style="background:DarkSlateBlue; color:white" |'''Operatic repertoire'''
|-
! width="200 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black"|Role
! style="background:Lavender; color:Black"| Title
! width="70 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black" |Composer
|-
|Norma || ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' || [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]]
|-
|Elvira || ''[[I puritani]]'' || Bellini
|-
|Micaela || ''[[Carmen]]'' || [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]]
|-
|Gemma || ''[[Gemma di Vergy]]'' || [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]
|-
|Selene || ''Didone abbandonata'' || [[Baldassare Galuppi|Galuppi]]
|-
|Marguerite || ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' || [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]]
|-
|Nedda || ''[[Pagliacci]]''
|| [[Ruggero Leoncavallo|Leoncavallo]]
|-
|Donna Elvira || ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' || [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]
|-
|Mimì || ''[[La bohème]]'' || [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]
|-
|Angelica || ''[[Suor Angelica]]'' || Puccini
|-
|Liù || ''[[Turandot]]'' || Puccini
|-
|Rosina || ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'' || [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]]
|-
|Julia || ''[[La Vestale]]'' || [[Gaspare Spontini|Spontini]]
|-
|Leonora || ''[[Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio]]'' || [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]
|-
|Lucrezia Contarini || ''[[I due Foscari]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Odabella || ''[[Attila (opera)|Attila]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Amalia || ''[[I masnadieri]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Leonora || ''[[Il trovatore]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Violetta Valery || ''[[La traviata]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Amelia Grimaldi || ''[[Simon Boccanegra]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Elena || ''[[I vespri siciliani]]'' || Verdi
|-
|Desdemona || ''[[Otello (Verdi)|Otello]]'' || Verdi
|}
Her concert repertoire includes also Rossini's ''[[Stabat Mater (Rossini)|Stabat Mater]]'' and Verdi's ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]''.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2RxGSfP Konzertkritik] Berliner Morgenpost, 2 April 2013.</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Raina Kabaivanska]]
* [[Teatro Lirico Sperimentale]]
== Discography ==
=== Recordings ===
* Galuppi: ''Didone abbandonata'' – Piva/Grasso/Giansanti/Agresta/Carnevale/Carè, Welterstaufnahme 2006 Bongiovanni
* Verdi: ''Sacred Verdi. [[Quattro pezzi sacri]], Libera me, Ave Maria'' – Maria Agresta, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia / [[Antonio Pappano]]. 2014 Warner Classics
=== Video recording on DVD or Blu-ray Disc ===
* [[Gaetano Donizetti]], ''Gemma di Vergy'', Maria Agresta as Gemma. A live recording from the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo; director: Laurent Gerger. Orchestra del Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli. Published by Bongiovanni, 2011.
* Giuseppe Verdi, ''[[I due Foscari]],'' Maria Agresta as Lucrezia Contarini, [[Placido Domingo]] as Francesco Foscari, [[Francesco Meli]] as Jacopo Foscari, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, [[Antonio Pappano]], director: Thaddeus Strassberger. Issued by Opus Arte, 2015.
* Ruggiero Leoncavallo, ''[[Pagliacci]],'' Maria Agresta as Nedda, [[Jonas Kaufmann]] as Canio, [[Staatskapelle Dresden]], [[Christian Thielemann]]. A production of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2015; director: [[Philipp Stölzl]]. Published by Sony, 2015. (also with [[Pietro Mascagni]], ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]''.)
* Giacomo Puccini, ''[[Turandot]],'' Maria Agresta as Liù, [[La Scala]], [[Riccardo Chailly]]. Published by Decca, Jan. 2017.
* Charles Gounod, ''[[Faust (Gounod)|Faust]],'' Maria Agresta as Marguerite, Pjotr Beczala as Faust, Ildar Abdrazakov as Mephisto. Salzburger Festspiele 2016, Philharmonischer Chor Wien, [[Vienna Philharmonic]] under Alejo Perez, director: [[Reinhard von der Thannen]]. Published by EuroArts,<ref>[http://bit.ly/2GNKKoH Euroarts]</ref> July 2017.
== References ==
== External links ==
* [http://bit.ly/163uRfS Maria Agresta] Homepage
* [http://bit.ly/2GMWCqM Scheda su sito gmartandmusic.com]
* [http://bit.ly/2RsuT2O Maria Agresta] on [[Discogs]]
* [http://bit.ly/2GMFC49 Maria Agresta] on Paris Opera website
* [http://bit.ly/2Rmv4wN Maria Agresta] on ResMusica
* [http://bit.ly/2GMWE1S ''Mais qui est donc Maria Agresta ?''] on Forum Opera
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ocKwV1mdU J.Kaufmann & M.Agresta⭐Brevi estratti dal concerto alla Reggia di Caserta] (Youtube)
[[Category:1978 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Campania]]
[[Category:Italian operatic sopranos]]
[[Category:21st-century Italian singers]]
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