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| | Frittoli Barbara | | soprano |   
| Born in Milan, Barbara Frittoli graduated with the highest honors 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), and in which she recently made her Munich debut under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Her most recent engagements also include Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Glyndebourne, at the Wiener Staatsoper and at Metropolitan, the role of Elettra in Idomeneo in Dresden under the baton of Colin Davis, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden and the return to the Opéra National de Paris in Simon Boccanegra. At the Teatro alla Scala she has recently sung as Leonora in Il Trovatore for the opening of the 2000/1 season, as Alice in Falstaff, as Desdemona in Otello and Contessa d'Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Again with Muti, she has just taken part in a celebrative concert at Ground Zero in New York with Natale De Carolis and Giuseppe Sabbatini. |
| During her brilliant career she also performed as the protagonist in Pergolesi's Flaminio (1993, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples), as Mimì in La Bohème (1992, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; 1993, Wiener Staatsoper; 1994, Teatro Comunale di Firenze with Semyon Bychkov; 1995, Metropolitan Opera), Micaela in Carmen (1992, Philadelphia; 1993, Wiener Staatsoper; 1994, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden; 1995, Metropolitan Opera), Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro (1994, Wiener Staatsoper under Riccardo Muti; 1997, Teatro alla Scala under Riccardo Muti; 1998, Salzburg Festival), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (1999, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; 2000, Opéra Bastille in Paris with Sir Charles Mackerras), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (1994, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; 1997 and 1998, Wiener Staatsoper; 1999, Opéra Bastille de Paris under James Conlon and Salzburg Festival with Lorin Maazel), Sifare in Mitridate, re di Ponto (1994, Teatro Regio di Torino; 2000, Paris with Christophe Rousset), Il corsaro (Medora, 1996, Teatro Regio di Torino), Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann (1992 and 1996, Wiener Staatsoper), Alice in Falstaff (1997, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Daniele Gatti; 1998, Teatro Comunale di Firenze with Antonio Pappano; 1999, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden under the baton of Bernard Haitink), as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra (1998, Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Daniele Gatti; Opernhaus in Zurich, 2002), as Margherita in Faust (2000, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa) and as Luisa Miller (Metropolitan Opera with James Levine, 2002). |
| Barbara Frittoli's vast concert repertoire includes Händel's Die Schoepfung (1994, Teatro alla Scala); Verdi's Messa da Requiem (1995, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti; 1997, Milan with Riccardo Muti; 2001, Milan and Vienna with Muti; Amsterdam with Riccardo Chailly, Florence with Zubin Mehta, London with Valery Gergiev; 2002, New York with Muti and Boston), Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (1995, in Brussels with Antonio Pappano), Vier lezte Lieder (1996, Orchestra Verdi di Milano; 2000, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Mozart's C minor Mass K427 (1996, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis), in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater (1996, Ravenna Festival and at the Wiener Musikverein conducted by Riccardo Muti), Rossini's Stabat Mater (1994, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; 1997, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Riccardo Chailly), Gounod's cantata Mors et vita (1999, with Hessischer Rundfunk, under Marcello Viotti), Mahler's Symphony n.4 (2002, Amsterdam with Bernard Haitink). |
| Highlights of Barbara Frittoli's future engagements include Luisa Miller at Covent Garden, Otello in Munich, at the Opéra National de Paris, in Cagliari and Florence, Don Carlo and Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Florence, Simon Boccanegra at the Opernhaus in Zurich and in Turin, Turandot at the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona. She will also sing revivals of several roles for the Wiener Staatsoper (Simon Boccanegra, Idomeneo) and the Metropolitan Opera (Otello, Don Carlo, Così fan tutte). |
| Barbara Frittoli's discography includes several recordings from the beginning of her career, such as Puccini's Il Trittico for Decca, Il barbiere di Siviglia for Teldec and Il viaggio a Reims conducted by Claudio Abbado for Sony, followed by Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Riccardo Muti for EMI, Turandot (Liù) with Zubin Mehta for BMG, Rossini's Stabat Mater, I Pagliacci (Nedda) with Riccardo Chailly and La Bohème (Mimì) with Zubin Mehta, CDs of Mozart arias with Charles Mackerras and of Verdi arias with Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra for Erato. |
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