Anna Caterina Antonacci |

Anna Caterina Antonacci

An outstanding singer and actress of her generation, Anna Caterina Antonacci has an extensive repertoire that includes both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles in works from Monteverdi to Massenet and Stravinsky.

The most striking roles of the singer in recent years are Cassandra in Berlioz’s Les Troyens under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner on the stage of the Parisian Theater du Chatelet, Elektra in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Netherlands Opera and the Florentine Maggio Musicale, Poppea in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea at the Bavarian State opera conducted by Ivor Bolton and at the Paris Opera conducted by René Jacobs, Alceste in Gluck’s opera of the same name at the Salzburg Festival and at the Teatro Reggio in Parma, Medea in Cherubini’s opera of the same name at the Capitoline Theater of Toulouse and the Parisian Theater Chatelet, Vitellia in Mozart’s “Mercy of Titus” in Geneva Opera and Paris Opera. Among the most important engagements of the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons, one can mention the debut at the London Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Bizet’s Carmen), performances at La Scala Theater in Milan (Elizabeth in Donizetti’s Mary Stuart), Parisian Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Alice in Verdi’s Falstaff), the Turin Teatro Reggio (Cherubini’s Medea), the Marseille Opera (Marguerite in Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust), concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra. Mahler, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and many others.

Anna Caterina Antonacci’s upcoming performances include Bizet’s Carmen in the title role at the Luxembourg Opera, the Deusche Oper in Berlin, the Danish Royal Opera and the Liceu Theater in Barcelona, ​​Berlioz’s Les Troyens at the Royal Opera House in London, Covent Garden and Milan’s La Scala, Berlioz’s dramatic cantata The Death of Cleopatra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre de France. Having made her debut with great success with her own performance to the music of Monteverdi Era la notte in 2008, the singer will continue to perform in this project and with a new program called Altre stelle in London, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Cologne, Paris. In 2009, Anna Caterina Antonacci became the owner of France’s highest artistic award – Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

Source: Moscow Philharmonic website