Miriam Pirazzini
Miriam Pirazzini (21 August 1918 – 26 December 2016) was an Italian mezzo-soprano and occasionally soprano. She made her formal debut in Rome, in 1944, as Laura Adorno in La Gioconda. For the next twenty years, she was one of Italy's foremost mezzo-sopranos.
Pirazzini was born in
G.W. Pabst, 1953); in the oratorio San Giovanni Battista at Perugia (1949); as Azucena in Il trovatore at the Teatro dell'Opera, Rome (1953); and Neris in Medea (the Italian version of Luigi Cherubini's Médée) in Venice (1953), as well as on the first studio recording of Cherubini's masterpiece. She was also the Adalgisa (replacing the indisposed Fedora Barbieri) in the infamous Norma at Rome in 1958, when the performance was cancelled after Callas sang Act I and felt unable to continue; she kept the role partnering Anita Cerquetti
, who replaced Callas for the remaining performances.
She appeared at the
Nicola Rossi Lemeni
.
Another of Pirazzini's roles was of the Princesse de Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur, which she often sang with
Grammy Award. She died in Rome on 26 December, 2016, at the age of 98.[1]
Studio Discography
- Cherubini: Medea (Callas, Scotto, Picchi, Modesti; Serafin, 1957) Ricordi/EMI
- Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Corridori, Campora, Colzani; Parodi, 1952) Urania
- Puccini: Madama Butterfly (de los Ángeles, Björling, Sereni; Santini, 1959) EMI
- Verdi: Aïda (Curtis-Verna, Corelli, Guelfi, Neri; Questa, 1956) Cetra
- Verdi: La forza del destino (Guerrini, Campora, Colzani, Corena; Parodi, p. 1952) Urania
- Verdi: I lombardi (Vitale, Bertocci; Wolf-Ferrari, 1951) Cetra
- Verdi: Otello (Rysanek, Vickers, Gobbi; Serafin, 1960) RCA
- Verdi: Rigoletto (d'Angelo, Tucker, Capecchi; Molinari-Pradelli, 1959) Philips
- Verdi: Il trovatore (Mancini, Lauri-Volpi, Tagliabue; Previtali, 1951) Cetra
References
- Liner notes, Act I of Norma, Voce, undated.
- ^ Antunes Serra, Par Marie (29 December 2016). "La mezzo-soprano Miriam Pirazzini s'est éteinte" (in French). Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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