December 17, 2021 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center
Subscription series “World Opera Stars. Maestro Vladimir Spivakov and the NPR”
Soloist – Danielle de Niese, soprano (USA)
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Overtures and arias from operas by Haendel, Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, Gounod, Dvořák, Puccini
Vladimir Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia regularly invite dazzling opera singers from other countries. The current concert season will treat music lovers with the World Opera Stars series which will feature soprano Danielle de Niese (Australia – USA), tenor Freddie De Tommaso (UK – Italy) and soprano Lisette Oropesa (USA).
The guest star of the December concert Danielle de Niese studied voice privately with Ruth Falcon and at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan. She made her debut at the age of fifteen with the Los Angeles Opera, at the age of nineteen she sang Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro under James Levine's conducting at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Then followed an invitation to sing the main part in Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges at the same opera house where later Danielle sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare and Eurydice in Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice. Critics also highly appreciated her performances in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Rameau's Les Indes galantes. Her concert repertoire comprises arias from operas by Pergolesi, Donizetti, Puccini, Delibes, Bach's Cantatas, various vocal miniatures from Dowland to Gershwin.
Now Danielle appears on top opera stages, such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the San Francisco Opera House and the Lyric Opera in Chicago, the Melbourne and Sydney Opera Houses and many others including the famous Glyndebourne Festival. In 2015 the singer became the first performer of the Roxane Coss part in the Bel Canto opera by Peruvian composer Jimmy López at the Chicago Lyric Opera, while in 2020 she sang the eponymous part in the first production of Eurydice by Matthew Aucoin in the Los Angeles Opera.
Danielle has also co-worked with famed ensembles (the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orchestra, Baroque ensembles The English Concert, Les Arts Florissants), conductors (Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Trevor Pinnock, William Christie, Ingo Metzmacher), soloists (Renee Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl). In 2001 she played opera singer Beatrice in Ridley Scott's film Hannibal. The aria Vide Cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy was also used in Ridley Scott's film Kingdom of Heaven. The singer has been awarded various prizes: the Prix d'Amis of the Netherlands Opera, Echo Klassik and Orphee d’or (2008) for the Handel's Arias CD.