Maria Agresta
Maria Giovanna Agresta (born 16 July 1978) is an Italian operatic soprano.
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Maria Agresta

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- Name
- Maria Agresta
- Birth Name
- Maria Giovanna Agresta
- Born
- 16 July 1978
- Birthplace
- Vallo della Lucania, Italy
- Occupation
- Operatic soprano
- Nationality
- Italy
- Fields
- opera
- Honours
- Prize Franco Abbiati Italian Music
- Languages
- Italian
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Maria Giovanna Agresta (born 16 July 1978) is an Italian operatic soprano.
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• Name — Maria Agresta • Birth Name — Maria Giovanna Agresta • Born — 16 July 1978 • Birthplace — Vallo della Lucania, Italy • Occupation — Operatic soprano • Years Active — 2006–present • Website — https: www.mariaagresta.com/
Life
Life
Born in Vallo della Lucania, Agresta obtained her diploma at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Martucci in Salerno with top marks and then completed her studies with Raina Kabaivanska in Modena. In 2006 she made her debut in Spoleto as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and then appeared as Selene in Baldassare Galuppi's Didone abbandonata. She made her role debut as Micaëla in Carmen in 2007 in Messina and sang Desdemona in Otello in various venues. Further roles from the Italian repertoire followed; including her role debut as Elena in I vespri siciliani at the Teatro Regio di Torino in 2011, which brought her wide recognition. Since then she has also sung at La Scala in Milan and other important opera houses such as the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, La Fenice in Venice, the 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 2014, Agresta appeared in Omaggio a Raina Kabaivanska, a tribute concert for Kabaivanska's 80th birthday at the Teatro Regio di Parma during Festival Verdi, performing with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini under the direction of Nayden Todorov. In 2015 she appeared for the first time at the Salzburg Easter Festivals with Jonas Kaufmann in the role of Nedda in Pagliacci. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera (New York) in January 2016 in the role of Mimi in La Bohème. At the Salzburg Festival in August 2016 she made an acclaimed role debut in the French repertoire as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. In 2017 there followed further engagements at the Metropolitan Opera as Micaëla in Carmen in January and as Liù in Turandot in October. In 2014 Agresta was awarded the XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana.
Audio
Audio
• 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
Video
• 2011: 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. • 2015: 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. • 2015: Giacomo Puccini, Turandot, Maria Agresta as Liù, La Scala, Riccardo Chailly. Published by Decca, Jan. 2017. • 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.) • 2016: Charles 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, July 2017. • 2017: Georges Bizet, Carmen, Elīna Garanča as Carmen, Maria Agresta as Micaela, Roberto Alagna as Don José, Ildar Abdrazakov as Esamillo. Paris Opera, conducted by Mark Elder; Calixto Bieito, stage director. Paris Opera Play.
Repertoire
Roles include: Operatic repertoire • Role — Title — Composer • Norma — Norma — Bellini • Elvira — I puritani — Bellini • Micaela — Carmen — Bizet • Gemma — Gemma di Vergy — Donizetti • Selene — Didone abbandonata — Galuppi • Marguerite — Faust — Gounod • Nedda — Pagliacci — | Leoncavallo • Donna Elvira — Don Giovanni — Mozart • Mimì — La bohème — Puccini • Angelica — Suor Angelica — Puccini • Liù — Turandot — Puccini • Rosina — Il barbiere di Siviglia — Rossini • Julia — La Vestale — Spontini • Leonora — Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio — Verdi • Lucrezia Contarini — I due Foscari — Verdi • Odabella — 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 Her concert repertoire includes also Rossini's Stabat Mater and Verdi's Requiem.
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- 1.Kurzportrait von Maria Agresta, Salzburger Nachrichten vom 27. Juli 2015.
- 2.Omaggio a Raina Kabaivanska. Teatro Regio di Parma.
- 3.Rezension von kultur24.berlin zu Cavalleria Rusticana + Pagliacci bei den Salzburger Osterfestspielen 2015
- 4."Review: In ‘Turandot’ and ‘La Bohème,’ a New Depth of Emotion", New York Times, 14 January 2016.
- 5.Rezension der Premiere von Gounds Faust bei den Salzburger Festspielen 2016, Süddeutsche Zeitung (11 August 2016).
- 6.Eric C. Simpson. Margaine makes sensational debut in Met's riveting "Carmen". New York Classical Review. 20 January 2017.
- 7.Wilborn Hampton. Met Opera: A Stirring "Turandot" With Dyka, Antonenko, and an Homage to James Morris. Huffington Post. 18 October 2017.
- 8.XXXIII Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana a Maria Agresta.
- 9.Konzertkritik Berliner Morgenpost, 2 April 2013.
- 10.Euroarts
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