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The Italian soprano, Cecilia Rizzetto, came from a music-loving family, and enrolled in the Mantua Conservatory in 1999 in the piano class led by Professor Margherita Anselmi. She approached opera singing during the course in Theatre Literature, while attending the University of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Verona, struck by the dialectic and enthusiasm of Professor La Torre. She decided to take opera singing lessons with the soprano Emma Martellini and the following year passed the admission exam to the "Lucio Campiani" Conservatory of Music in Mantua. She continued her studies in opera singing with the mezzo-soprano Adriana Cicogna and later with the soprano Cristina Pastorello. In 2007 she obtained a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature with the highest marks and honours. In 2009 she graduated in piano under the guidance of Maestro Camillo Bertetti and won a scholarship as a soprano at the Rassegna Giovani Musicisti di Montichiari (Young Musicians of Montichiari exhibition) (Bs). In 2010 she received the Maria Callas Special Award as an emerging soprano. In 2010 she graduated successfully in opera singing with Cristina Pastorello, still at the "Lucio Campiani" Conservatory of Music in Mantua. In 2011 she won the Audience Award at the City of Bologna competition and won the First Prize in the II competition for young musicians at the Salieri Theatre in Legnago (Vr.) In 2017 she graduated with honours from the Biennium of Ancient Music at the "E.F. Dall'Abaco" Conservatory in Verona with Maestro Vincenzo di Donato. She attended master-classes with Cinzia Forte, Pietro Spagnoli and Enzo Dara.
Among the debuted roles: Eurydice - Music in C. Monteverdi's Orfeo; First Witch in H. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas; Zingaretta in L. Leo's Zingaretta; Serpina in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona; Serpina in G. Paisiello's La Serva Padrona; Elisetta in D. Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto; Dirindina in D. Scarlatti's Dirindina; Grilletta in F.J. Haydn's Lo Speziale; Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte; Fanny in G. Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio; Sofia in G. Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino; Isabella in G. Rossini's L'inganno felice; Gilda in G. Verdi's Rigoletto; Valencienne in F. Lehar's La Vedova Allegra; Bubikopf in V. Ullman's Der Kaiser von Atlantis.
Some of Cecilia Rizzetto's her main concerts have included: Ottorino Respighi's Lauda per la natività, directed by Luigi Azzolini (2013); Francesco Cavalli's Vespro di Santa Lucia, directed by Franco Pavan (2014); J.S. Bach's Cantata Selig ist Der Mann BWV 57, directed by Sigiswald Kuijken (2015); Dietrich Buxtehude; Membra Jesu nostri, directed by Alberto Rasi (2016); G. Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio with the AmareMantova Association (2017); Arvo Pärt's Stabat Mater, directed by Luigi Azzolini; G. Rossini's L'inganno felice with the AmareMantova Association (2019).
Cecilia Rizzetto is a permanent guest at the Bibiena Theatre in Mantua, at Palazzo Tè and at the Teatro Olimpico in Sabbioneta. The lyric repertoire is accompanied by the chamber, Baroque and sacred repertoire. Her many collaborations with various ensembles and associations (including Dimostrazioni Armoniche, Ricercare Ensemble, Madrigalisti Estensi, Ensemble La Morsure) as well as with choral groups from the national territory. |
