Miriam Gauci

Miriam Gauci (born 3 April 1957) is a Maltese operatic soprano, particularly associated with lyric Italian roles.

Life and career

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Born in Malta, where she began her voice training, she completed her studies in the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Milan, Italy. After winning a few international prizes, she made her professional debut in Bologna in Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine, in 1984. Her well-managed voice, unified from top to bottom,^[1] of moderate volume and fine quality, fitted her well for the lyric Italian repertory and she was soon in demand throughout Europe.

She made her

By 1992, Miriam Gauci was already a favourite in Vienna, Munich, Hamburg and Santa Fe. She has collaborated with Riccardo Muti (Mefistofele and Verdi's Requiem at the Salzburg Festival), Georges Prêtre (Verdi's Requiem), Claudio Abbado (Lohengrin at La Scala), Franz Welser-Möst (Don Carlo in Cleveland), Aldo Ceccato, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Zubin Mehta (Don Carlo and Mahler's Symphonies), and in Verdi's Requiem at the Musikverein under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev.^{[citation needed]}

She performed in productions by

She made her American debut at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, in 1987, as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, and later that same year appeared as Mimì in La bohème in Los Angeles, opposite Plácido Domingo. Her Metropolitan debut in New York came in 2001 with role of Mimì, followed by Cio-Cio San and Mimì at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House.^{[citation needed]}

She can be heard in many recordings, notably in Pagliacci, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Simon Boccanegra, Otello, La bohème, Tosca, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi,

Her career has continued successfully with concerts and recitals all over Europe and the United States, and she proved a deeply touching interpreter in certain roles, notably Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Angelica and Mimì.[2]

Sources

• Grove Music Online,
  J.B. Steane
  , Oxford University Press, 2008
• Soprano Arias from Italian Operas. Miriam Gauci, Soprano, Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra (Brussels), Alexander Rahbari, Conductor. 1992 (Naxos). Music Notes by Keith Anderson.

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