Lucilla Galeazzi


Lucilla Galeazzi is an Italian folk singer. She performs modern versions of traditional Italian folk music and has also performed internationally in jazz, baroque music and operas. In the 1970s and 80s, she was one of the best-known voices of the Italian folk revival around Giovanna Marini. She began her solo career in 1987 and has produced albums with numerous other musicians since then.
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Career

Galeazzi began her career as a teenager in a pop group. Later, she was influenced by her encounter with the ethnomusicologists Valentino Paparelli and Alessandro Portelli. Following this, she took singing lessons with the Japanese soprano Michiko Hiroyama and the bass singer Gianni Socci. In 1977 she became a member of Giovanna Marini's vocal quartet, with whom she recorded four albums and also performed internationally. In 1986, she appeared in Roberto de Simone's production of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Naples Opera house and toured the USA.
In 1987, Galeazzi founded her first own trio, Il Trillo, with Ambrogio Sparagna and Carlo Rizzo, in which she interpreted traditional folk songs in a contemporary style. In later productions, she expanded her repertoire to include baroque music and jazz. For example, she founded the Trio Rouge with jazz musicians Michel Godard and Vincent Courtois and was also a member of Christina Pluhar's baroque ensemble L'Arpeggiata for several years. Galeazzi was also a member of the Bella Ciao project, which reinterpreted workers' and partisan songs from Italy.
In 2019, she interpreted women's work songs with percussionist Carlo Rizzo, singers from Galicia and the Belgian ensemble Lalma on the album Alegria e Libertà. Galeazzi also recalled major historical themes in her music. Her production Doppio Fronte. Oratorio per la Grande Guerra commemorated the role of women in the First World War, and the production La Nave a Vapore was dedicated to the history of emigration from Italy.

Discography

  • 1977 Correvano coi carri
  • 1977 La grande madre impazzita
  • 1980 Cantate pour tous les jours 1 e 2
  • 1984 Pour Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • 1986 Anninnia
  • 1986 Il paese con le ali
  • 1987 Per Devozione
  • 1990 Cantata profana
  • 1992 Il Trillo
  • 1993 Giofà il servo del re
  • 1995 Invito
  • 1995 Rock’s Airs de la lune
  • 1996 Mammas
  • 1997 Cuore di terra
  • 1997 La Banda
  • 1997 La via dei Romei
  • 1998 Honig und Asche
  • 1999 Ali d’oro
  • 2000 Castel del Monte
  • 2001 Lunario
  • 2002 La Tarantella
  • 2002 Renaissance
  • 2004 All’improvviso
  • 2004 Trio Rouge
  • 2005 Stagioni
  • 2006 Amore e Acciaio Lucilla Galeazzi
  • 2010 Sopra i tetti di Firenze
  • 2010 Ancora Bella Ciao Lucilla Galeazzi
  • 2011 La Tarantella / Antidotum Tarantulae
  • 2012 Il Natale dei Semplici
  • 2013 Festa Italiana
  • 2015 Sirena dei Mantici
  • 2015 ''Bella Ciao''