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| | Rancatore Desirée | | soprano |   
| Born in Palermo in 1977, Desirée Rancatore began her musical studies at a very young age. After studying violin and piano, she concentrated on singing under the guidance of her mother Maria Argento, and subsequently specialised in Rome with Australian soprano Margaret Baker-Genovesi. |
| She was the winner of several important singing competitions, as the «Ibla Gran Prize» in Ragusa and the «V. Bellini» in Caltanisetta in 1995, and the «Maria Caniglia» competition in Sulmona in 1996. |
| After a successful concert in Chimay (Belgium), she was engaged by Gérard Mortier at the Salzburg Festival 1996, where she made her absolute operatic debut as Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. |
| Her Italian debut took place for the opening of the 1996/7 season of the Teatro Regio di Parma in the role of Vivetta in L'arlesiana. She was then invited by several Italian theatres, such as the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (where she sang in Parsifal for the opening of the 1997 edition, under Semyon Bychkov). During summer 1997 she was re-engaged by the Salzburg Festival for the role of Blondchen in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, as well as for two Mozart concerts under the baton of Hubert Soudant. Again under the baton of Soudant, she has subsequently performed in Orff's Carmina Burana and Mozart's B minor Mass in France and in Salzburg. |
| Desirée Rancatore took part in the 1997/8 season opening of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, premiering the role of Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, under the baton of John Neschling. During the same season she sang in Mahler's Symphony n.2 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Myung-Whun Chung, and made her successful debut in the role of Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Teatro Bellini di Catania, a role she has subsequently revisited in several theatrical institutions throughout Europe, such as the Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus in Zurich, Teatro Massimo di Palermo and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. |
| During the 1998/9 season she made her debut in Don Carlo (Voce dal cielo) at Salzburg Festival, conducted by Lorin Maazel, returned to Paris to sing in L'enfant et les sortilèges and in Parsifal, and performed in Die Entfürung aus dem Serail (Blonde) in London and at the Festival of Istanbul with Sir Charles Mackerras (recorded for Telarc, and filmed on television for Antelope). |
| 1999/2000 season was marked by her remarkable debut at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London in Falstaff (Nannetta), as well as by the portraying of Gilda in Rigoletto (on concert stage) in Sydney, a role she then re-proposed at the San Francisco Opera and in Las Palmas. |
| Desirée Rancatore has subsequently sung in a successful recital in Sydney, in the role of Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra National de Paris and at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti), and in Il viaggio a Reims at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Particularly prestigious was the recent portraying of Jeanne D'Arc au Bucher in Salzburg and the return to Paris for a new production of L'enfant et les sortilèges. She just successfully made her debut at the May Festival in Cincinnati with Christus am Öberge and at the Festival della Valle d'Itria di Martina Franca in Les Huguenots. On the concert side, she recently was a soloist in Mozart's Requiem at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, and in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater in Paris under the baton of Muti and in Montpellier with the Orchestre National de Montpellier. |
| Highlights of Desirée Rancatore's future engagements include Les contes d'Hoffmann (Olympia) at the Teatro Regio di Parma, again at the Wiener Staatsoper, in Antwerpen and at Teatro alla Scala (under the baton of Riccardo Muti), Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Le Rossignol in Copenhagen and Lakmè at Teatro Massimo di Palermo. |
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