MAESSO, LUISA

Born in Ubeda, Jaen, moving later to Madrid, the mezzo-soprano Luisa Maesso studied music and vocal technique with Margaret Dücker de Fink, Angeles Chamorro and Emelina López. She made her début in 1994 at the Madrid Teatro de La Zarzuela as the Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, a production also seen at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. She participated in recordings of Doña Francisquita, with Alfredo Kraus and María Bayo, and La verbena de la Paloma with Plácido Domingo and Ahinoa Arteta. She also took part in the ballet Arraigo with music by Jerónimo Maesso and in Cero sobre cero. She has sung in Berg’s Wozzeck, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, Luis de Pablo’s La madre invita a comer, Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo y La Atlántida, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Adriana Lecouvreur, and Penella’s El gato montés. She has worked with distinguished conductors and ensembles.

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