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BARBIERI, FEDORA (1920 - 2003)Possessing a big voice, although she used it
somewhat coarsely, the Triestine Fedora Barbieri
(1918-2003) was one of a number of front-ranking
Italian mezzo-sopranos active in the 1950s and 1960s,
including Ebe Stignani (1903-1974), Giulietta
Simionato (b.1910), Elena Nicolai (1912-1985) and
Fiorenza Cossotto (b.1935). In her home town she
studied with Federico Bugamelli and Luigi Toffolo, and
in Milan with Giulia Tess. In 1940 she made her début
at the Comunale, Florence as Fidalma in Il matrimonio
segreto, then in 1943 married the Director of the
Florence May Festival. Although the war interrupted
her career nevertheless in those years she appeared in
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Belgium, Hungary,
The Netherlands and Austria. No sooner was peace
declared than her international progress was rapid: in
1946 from La Scala, Milan, the following year she
travelled to the Colón, Buenos Aires; in 1950 to Covent
Garden, London and the Metropolitan, New York, and
also to San Francisco and Chicago. Her repertory in her
palmy days included rôles such as Dalila, Azucena,
Amneris and Eboli, which she sang under de Sabata and
Giulini. She created Dariola in the première of Alfano’s
Don Giovanni di Manara at the May Festival in 1941
and in 1942 was Telemaco in Dallapiccola’s revision of
Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria. In Siena that
year she sang Giustina in Pergolesi’s Flaminio, and in
1943 at Cremona, Orfeo in Vito Frazzi’s edition of
Monteverdi’s opera. She undertook a number of rôles
with Callas, including Brangania in Tristano, Adalgisa,
Amneris, Neris in Medea and with her recorded
Amneris, Laura in La Gioconda, Azucena and Ulrica.
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| OPERA FANATIC (NTSC) |
101813 |
| PONCHIELLI: Gioconda (La) (Callas) (1952) |
8.110302-04 |
| VERDI: Aida (Callas, Tucker, Serafin) (1955) |
8.111240-41 |
| VERDI: Aida (Milanov, Bjorling, Perlea) (1955) |
8.111042-44 |
| VERDI: Ballo in Maschera (Un) (Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi) (1956) |
8.111278-79 |
| VERDI: Ballo in Maschera (Un) (Gigli, Caniglia) (1943) |
8.110178-79 |
| VERDI: Trovatore (Il) (Bjorling, Milanov, Cellini) (1952) |
8.110240-41 |
| VERDI: Trovatore (Il) (Callas, di Stefano, Karajan) (1956) |
8.111280-81 |
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