Lucia Aliberti
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Lucia Aliberti - Lucia Aliberti (born 12 June 1957) is an Italian operatic soprano singer. She performed the bel canto roles of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Vivaldi, Mercadante and so on. Aliberti was born in Messina (Sicily). She studied piano, composition, conducting, and singing at the Conservatory, where she graduated with a diploma with full marks very young. She then completed her studies in Rome with Maestro Luigi Ricci and continued the study with Alfredo Kraus. Musician and composer, while studying singing, she was also studying the piano and other musical instruments (guitar, accordion, violin, mandolin). She has composed many pieces for piano, clarinet, flute and singing. She began her artistic career in Spoleto at the Festival dei Due Mondi, under the direction of Gian Carlo Menotti. A lyric-dramatic soprano with agility, Aliberti graduated very young at the conservatory with honors. She studied with Luigi Ricci in Rome, Alfredo Kraus and Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg and Berlin. She has also studied the piano and other musical instruments like guitar, accordion, violin and mandolin. She has composed many pieces for piano, clarinet, flute, violin and voice. After winning the Spoleto and ENAL competitions, she began her artistic career with La sonnambula by Bellini in Spoleto at the Festival dei Due Mondi under the direction of Gian Carlo Menotti. She is considered a specialist in the repertory of Vincenzo Bellini (she has also dedicated intense study to some of his manuscripts). The other most important composer in her repertory are Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. Several operas of these composers have become her most successful roles: Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia), Anna Bolena (Anna), Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrezia), Beatrice di Tenda (Beatrice), Maria Stuarda (Maria), Norma (Norma), La sonnambula (Amina), I puritani (Elvira), Il pirata (Imogene), La straniera (Alaide), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta), Semiramide (Semiramide), La traviata (Violetta), Simon Boccanegra (Maria), Luisa Miller (Luisa), Rigoletto (Gilda). Aliberti has received two prestigious European Prizes: The Goldene Feder in Hamburg, the Premio Callas from the Association of Opera Friends of Milan, Iso D'Oro in Graz, Austria. Source: Article "Lucia Aliberti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
