Viviana Araiza Staffini – Amato Belcanto

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Classical Music 

Solo Musica

19 January 2022

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Vincenzo Bellini:Ah! bello a me ritorna (from Norma)Casta Diva (from Norma)
Gaetano Donizetti:Si, vuol di Francia il Rege…Ah! Quando all'ara scorgemi…Ah! Dal ciel discenda un raggio (from Maria Stuarda) (Elisabetta's first aria)
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini:Assisa appiè d'un salice (from Otello)Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide)Deh calma, o ciel, nel sonno (from Otello)Di tanti palpiti (from Tancredi)O sospirato lido!…Dolci d'amor parole (from Tancredi)
Gaspare Spontini:La vestale: Tu che invoco (Atto II)

Artists

Viviana Araiza Staffini (Mezzo-Soprano)
Plovdiv Symphonic Orchestra (Orchestra)Stellario Fagone (Conductor)

In the early nineteenth century, composers commissioned to write new operas received from the impresario a list of the singers in the solo ensemble so that that the parts might be written to suit them. The rise of bel canto consequently had a lot to do with the vocal potential of the female singers who were to play the title roles – the great prima donnas of the day. The mezzo-soprano Viviana Araiza Staffini was born in Munich and spent part of her childhood in the USA and Italy. She studied at the Munich College of Music and completed her studies at the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House.