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Raquel Pierotti was born in
Montevideo (Uruguay) where she studied piano and singing. In 1977, she was
admitted to the Escuela Nacional de Arte Lírico. From 1974 to 1979, she
achieved a certain level of success, being awarded several first prizes in
national competition and giving many chamber music recitals, as well as
performing in various opera seasons.
In 1980, she won the Second
Grand Prize in the Francisco Viñas Singing Competition and the Plácido
Domingo award to best spanish singer, as well as the First Price in the
Mozart Singing Competition and the Gold Medal from Radio Nacional de España,
awarded to the most distinguished young singer in the season.
Immediately she made her
debut at Teatro alla Scala di Milano, singing Marcellina in Mozart’s Le
nozze di Figaro under Ricardo Muti and Giorgio Strehler. Since, she has been
a frequent guest to La Scala, performing the roles of Clarice /La pietra del
paragone ; Smeton / Anna Bolena; Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia; Isabella/L’italiana
in Algeri; Maddalena /Il viaggio a Reims; Cecilio/Lucio Silla, and Fenena/
Nabucco for the 1986/1987 season opening as well as in La Scala tournées to
Berlin and Tokyo.
She has also appeared in most
of the main opera houses in Italy (Rome, Naples, Pésaro, Bologna, Florence,
Turin, Parma, Módena, Palermo,Verona…), in Europe (Paris, Geneva, Brussels,
Lieges, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid,
Vienna, Lisbon, Sofia…) and in America (México, Santiago de Chile, Buenos
Aires, Montevideo, Washingtong)worked with renowned conductors, such as
Claudio Abbado, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Chailly, Julius Rudel, John
Elliot Gardiner, Jesús López Cobos, Sir John Pritchard and Alberto Zedda,
and with stage directors Eduardo De Filippo, Patrice Chéreau, Pier Luigi
Pizzi, Roberto de Simone, Luca Ronconi, Lluís Pasqual, Jérôme Savary, Beni
Montresor, and José Carlos Plaza, amongst others.
Also she performed amongst
others, roles: of Sextus and Cornelia/Giulio Cesare; Dorabella/Così fan
tutte; Zerlina/Don Giovanni; Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro; Angelina/La
Cenerentola; Arsace/Semiramide; Orfeo/Orfeo ed Euridice;Ottavia /L’incoronazione
di Poppea; Vagans/Juditha triumphans; Adalgisa/Norma; the title role of
Carmen; Andromaca/Ermione; Leonora/La Favorita; Fidalma /Il matrimonio
segreto; Preziosilla/La forza del destino; Romeo/Capuleti e Montecchi;
Giulietta/Les contes d’Hoffmann; Elisabetta/Maria Stuarda, Sara/Roberto
Devereux, Climent/Saffo,etc. Her work includes as well Spanish and
Latin-American music recitals, and zarzuela . In October 1997, she
participated in the opening of the Teatro Real de Madrid, singing the role
of Rosa la Tatula in the opera Divinas palabras, by Antón Garcia Abril.
She has sung Aurora / Doña
Francisquita, at the Washington Opera and at the Teatro de la Zarzuela;
Zulima /Los amantes de Teruel, also at the Teatro de la Zarzuela; Cecilia
/Las golondrinas, at the Teatro Real de Madrid; Luisa Fernanda, at La Scala,;
Marcellina /Le nozze di Figaro, at the Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville; La
marquise/Babel 46, La maman and a shepherd /L’enfant et les sortilèges, both
at the Teatro Real de Madrid and at the Liceu in Barcelona, where she also
sang the role of The wet nurse/Boris Godunov, El Amor brujo en Porto Alegre,
Quickly/Falstaff at Amsterdam Concertgebow, Señá Rita/Verbena de la Paloma
at Teatro Zarzuela in Madrid, Campoamor /Oviedo and Maestranza/Sevilla, and
Nutrice/L´incoronazione de Poppea at Mozart Festival in A Coruña.
She has recorded, amongst
others, Il barbiere di Siviglia/ Berta, (Riccardo Chailly); Il viaggio a
Reims/Maddalena (Claudio Abbado); Le comte Ory/Ragonde, (John Elliot
Gardiner); El llibre vermell, by Xavier Benguerel, under Antoni Ros-Marbá; Giulio
Cesare/Cornelia, (Marcello Panni); the concert Mozart for Africa with
Montserrat Caballé; Doña Francisquita,/Aurora, with Alfredo Kraus; La
verbena de la Paloma/Señá Rita and La Dolores, Gaspara, both with Plácido
Domingo under Antoni Ros-Marbá; Amor/Viento es la dicha de amor, by José de
Nebra, (Christophe Coin); Il Farnace/Berenice,
(Massimiliano Carraro); El
pessebre, by Pau Casals, (Lawrence Foster); Requiem, by Jaume Alaquer, with
Joan Pons, (Joan Company).
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