Anna Bonitatibus and Adele D’Aronzo with courage bringing Rossini to the Wigmore Hall. Bringing many unusual and even unpublished works including a world première of a work discovered at an auction at Christie’s in 2023 . ‘L’esule’ was just one of the rarities of the genial outpouring of Rossini. He may have retired from writing opera in return for the good life , but he could never stop his musical invention . Péchés de Vieillesse and many miniatures, album leaves and even solo piano slipped from his pen with ease .
Of course his genius was in creating a completely new genre of Opera.
Anna singing with a sumptuous radiance from the whispered beauty of his very first composition of the ‘Mill girl’s wishes’ passing through the ravishing beauty of Metastasio’s ‘Lament in silence’ to the grandiosity of Rossini’s Farewell (Vienna was genially changed to Paris!) as he was Honoured in Paris with the Legion of Honour just after the première of ‘William Tell’. The artists from the Paris Opéra serenaded him beneath his window when he was at the height of his fame .
Three salon pieces for solo piano were performed by Adele whilst Anna got her breath back!
One of them was dedicated to a pupil of Chopin and daughter of the banker de Rothschild . Adele playing with great style as you might expect from the school of Sergio Perticaroli in Rome
What a week at the Wigmore ‘Academy’ with Nelson Goerner bringing the sunshine of Spain with Albeniz’s complete Iberia
And Graham Johnson with Christopher Maltman with a Schubert Lieder recital
Now this great Italian diva bringing the glories of the world of Rossini.
The Wiggies may flock to hear their favourites but the eclectic choice of programmes these days at the Wigmore Hall is unique and is a continual voyage of discovery.
Imogen Cooper on Sunday with her farewell tour of the complete Schubert Impromptus too .
‘This is the week that is ’ indeed !
Welcome to the web-site of Anna Bonitatibus: news, events, and projects of one of the most acclaimed artists on the international operatic and concert landscape!
The Anti-Diva, as she likes to describe herself, is renowned for the noble passion with which she interprets titles between the most famous of ‘teatro musicale’, as well as the tireless commitment with which she promotes the divulgation of a rarer repertoire.
Premio Abbiati del Disco 2024: Monologues; Halle Handel Preize 2023; Bärenreiter Ambassador; winner of the International Opera Awards 2015 for Semiramide — La Signora regale; Best Female Voice nomination, International Opera Awards 2016. Latest recording: MONOLOGUES, Prospero, 2023. and the rare and precious Péchés de Vieillesse by the ‘pesarese’.
Anna Bonitatibus is renowned for the noble passion with which she interprets titles between the most famous of ‘teatro musicale’, as well as the tireless commitment with which she promotes a rarer repertoire. More than seventy operas performed, from Claudio Monteverdi’s masterpieces to titles back to proscenium by Francesco Cavalli (Didone, Ercole amante, Calisto) crossing Händel’s operatic production (Agrippina, Deidamia, Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Tamerlano, Tolomeo, Ottone, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) as well as composers from the Neapolitan school, from Pergolesi to Cimarosa, and her beloved Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L’Italiana in Algeri, Il Viaggio a Reims, Tancredi, and furthermore Cantate, Masses and the rare and precious Péchés de Vieillesse by the ‘pesarese’.
As the embodiment of Cherubino from the Daponteian Le Nozze di Figaro, she has become one of the most acclaimed performers of Mozart. Then follows Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Mitridate Re di Ponto, La Clemenza di Tito, as well as sacred and profane repertoire by the Salzburgian composer. The Mezzo-soprano’s wide repertoire includes Messa da Requiem, Giuseppe Verdi, Ginevra di Scozia, Simon Mayr, Enrico di Borgogna by Donizetti interpreted with great success at the Donizetti Opera, Bergamo (2018). The French repertoire includes Carmen, a role brilliantly debuted in Madrid (2018) and L’Enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz and Gounod as well as Les contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, Werther and Don Quichotte by Massenet.
From first steps at the Teatro alla Scala, to Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Opéra comique in Parigi, to the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Staatsoper in Vienna, to Royal Opera House in London, Festivals (Salzburg, Florence, Munich, Bologna, Grange) and to the most renowned international concert halls (from Russia to United States), Anna Bonitatibus collaborated with the most acclaimed conductors, directors and artists such as: Charles Mackerras, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, René Jacobs, William Christie, Ivor Bolton, Myung Whun Chung, Alan Curtis, Roberto Abbado, Ottavio Dantone, Marc Minkowski, Raphael Pichon, Stefano Montanari, Angela Hewitt, Andrea Lucchesini and Luca Ronconi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Dario Fo, David McVicar, Laurent Pelly, David Alden, Jonathan Miller, Kasper Holten, Emilio Sagi, Irina Brook, Ivo van Hove, David Bösch, Mariame Clément, Tobias Kratzer, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Valérie Lesort; among the many colleagues on stage: Michele Pertusi, Christian Gerhaher, Rockwell Blake, Barbara Frittoli, Juan Diego Florez, Cecilia Bartoli, Simon Keenlyside, Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Angela Georghiu, Patrizia Ciofi, Michael Spyres, Thomas Allen, Roberto Alagna, Vivica Genaux, Lisette Oropesa, Magdalena Kožená, Philippe Jarrousky, Aleksandra Kurzac.
Interpreter of numerous Recitals of which she personally curates the programs, the most recent includes: “Beethoven and Rossini”, “Beyond the Borders: Music and Musicians of the New Europe” (Wigmore Hall); “Prime Donne – from Margherita Durastanti to Adelaide Malanotte” (Händel Festival, Karlsruhe); “Tanti affetti: Rossini e le sue Muse” (Rossini Opera Festival); “Cantori e Maestri” (I Festival Toscanini, Parma).
In 2021 she debuted at the Hamburg’s Staatsoper with Händel’s Agrippina (Barry Kosky’s production), with the same title and production she returned at the Bayerische Staastoper in May 2022 greeted with enormous success. A double debut took place during Summer 2022, at the Aix en Provence Festival in Mozart’s Idomeneo; during the Autumn of the same year she sung in Verdi’s Messa di Requiem on tour with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano (Italy, Netherlands, Spain). 2023 opens in the name of Händel: debut in Alcina – Ruggiero – on tour with Marc Minkowski and his Les Musiciens du Louvre (Paris, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia) and which will be concluded in February 2024 at the Teatro alla Scala; inauguration of the Händel Halle Festival with her first Serse : at the end of the performance she has been awarded of the Händel Preis 2023. In the same year, for the First Respighi Festival (Bologna), she performed the lyric poem Il Tramonto.
Alongside her artistic activity, Anna Bonitatibus is engaged in the research and promotion of Lirica italiana da camera through the Publishing House “Consonarte – Vox in Musica”, that she founded in London.
In February 2024 Alcina, with Marc Minkowski and LMDL, will be published (Pentatone); her recent album Monologues, (Prospero, 2023) is dedicated to monologues set to music of characters from mythology, history & literature, recorded with Adele D’Aronzo. Among her most successful recordings: Semiramide – La Signora regale (DHM), International Opera Awards 2015; en travesti (BR Klassik); La Tempesta, Marianna Martines (DHM); «Canti italiani», Beethoven (Consonarte). In DVD: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Hardy-RaiTrade), La Didone & Ercole amante (OpusArte), Così fan tutte (Arthaus), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Virgin Classic). Available in streaming: La Clemenza di Tito & Lucio Silla (La Monnaie, Bruxelles), L’Italiana in Algeri (Staatsoper, Vienna).
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