Lucia Aliberti


Lucia Aliberti is an Italian operatic soprano singer. She performed the bel canto roles of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Vivaldi, Mercadante and so on.

Life and career

Aliberti was born in Messina. She studied piano, composition, conducting, and singing at the Conservatory, where she graduated with a diploma with full marks very young. She then completed her studies in Rome with Maestro Luigi Ricci and continued her study with Alfredo Kraus. Musician and composer, while studying singing, she was also studying the piano and other musical instruments. She has composed many pieces for piano, clarinet, flute and singing.
She began her artistic career in Spoleto at the Festival dei Due Mondi, under the direction of Gian Carlo Menotti. A lyric-dramatic soprano with agility, Aliberti graduated very young from the conservatory with honours. She studied with Luigi Ricci in Rome, Alfredo Kraus and Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg and Berlin.
She has also studied the piano and other musical instruments like guitar, accordion, violin and mandolin. She has composed many pieces for piano, clarinet, flute, violin and voice. After winning the Spoleto and ENAL competitions, she began her artistic career with La sonnambula by Bellini in Spoleto at the Festival dei Due Mondi under the direction of Gian Carlo Menotti.

Operatic repertoire

She is considered a specialist in the repertory of Vincenzo Bellini. The other most important composers in her repertory are Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. Several operas of these composers have become her most successful roles:Lucia di Lammermoor Anna Bolena Lucrezia Borgia Beatrice di Tenda Maria Stuarda Norma La sonnambula I puritani Il pirata La straniera I Capuleti e i Montecchi Semiramide La traviata Simon Boccanegra Luisa Miller

Honours and awards

Aliberti has received two prestigious European Prizes: The in Hamburg, the Premio Callas from the Association of Opera Friends of Milan, Iso D'Oro in Graz, Austria.

Recordings

Complete operas

Beatrice di Tenda, Martin Thompson, Camille Capasso, Paolo Gavenelli – Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper BerlinFabio LuisiIl pirata, Stuart Neill, Roberto Frontali, Kelly Anderson – Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper BerlinMarcello ViottiLa sonnambula, John Aler, Francesco Ellero d'Artegna, Iris Vermillion, Jane Giering, Friedrich Molsberger, Warren Mok – Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper BerlinJesús López Cobos, live recording, February 1990, Deutsche Oper Berlin La straniera, Vincenzo Bello, Roberto Frontali, Sara Mingardo, Carlo Striuli – Orchestra del Teatro Verdi di TriesteGianfranco MasiniLa traviata, Peter Dvorský, Renato BrusonFujiwara Opera Chorus and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra –, live recording, Tokyo

Recitals

Famous Opera AriasMünchner RundfunkorchesterLamberto GardelliA PortraitNordwestdeutsche PhilharmoniePeter FeranecViva! Belcanto – Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano G. Verdi – Patrick FournillierEarly Verdi Arias – Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe VerdiOleg Caetani

DVD

Lucia Aliberti – Live at Semperoper Dresden – DVD 88697 19045 9 / RCA Red Seal – SonyBMG