Danielle de Niese

Danielle de Niese ( born April 11, 1979 in Melbourne, Australia ) is an opera singer living in the United States. She debuted in 1999 at the age of only 19 years at the New York Metropolitan Opera. De Niese is now a star of the opera world. She became famous especially with lots of baroque operas, such as by George Frideric Handel and Rameau.

Background and education

The parents of Danielle de Niese come from Sri Lanka, but her father also had Dutch ancestors. They emigrated to Australia, where her daughter Danielle was born. De Niese began at the age of eight years with singing lessons. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. There she attended the Colburn School, where she was taught in drama, dance, song and instrumental music.

As a teenager, Danielle de Niese hosted in a local television station for several years on a show for young people, in which they were familiar with classical music and culture. For its services as a presenter, she was awarded an Emmy.

At the age of 18 years, de Niese was included in the Lindemann Young Artists Program of the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1998. Less than a year later she made her debut in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in the role of Barbarina.

Career

After the debut in New York followed by engagements at various American opera houses, as in Santa Fe and Los Angeles. 2004 de Niese sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and at the Paris Opera, respectively, under the direction of Marc Minkowski. In the same role, the enthusiastic young singer in 2005 at the Glyndebourne Festival in the award winning production of David McVicar. Glyndebourne was the big breakthrough for Danielle de Niese. Since then, it applies with critics and audiences as one of the best singers of Handel's works.

This was followed by appearances again in Paris and indeed in Les Indes Galante by Rameau, conducted William Christie. In the Teatro San Carlo in Naples de Niese made ​​her Italian debut in a production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for the Teatro San Carlo. In Zurich, the singer took over for the first time the role of Poppea in Monteverdi's L' incoronazione di Poppea, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. That is precisely the role of de Niese was also at the Chicago Opera Theater successful. This was followed by a production of Handel's Rodelinda with the Canadian Opera Company, in the de Niese sang the title role.

In autumn 2006, de Niese returned to the Nederlandse Opera and was there in the role of Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro ) successfully. Beginning of 2007 was de Niese in the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées as Ginevra in Handel's Ariodante to hear. In the same year as in 2008, de Niese joined again at the Glyndebourne Festival at once in the role of Cleopatra and this year, in a new production of L' incoronazione di Poppea. Currently (May 2009) is de Niese engaged in the role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea at London's Royal Opera House.

Discography

  • Trade Arias ( Decca, 2008)
  • The Mozart Album ( Decca, 2009)
  • Beauty of the Baroque ( Decca 2011)
  • Trade - Giulio Cesare, Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2006 ( Opus Arte 2006).
  • Rameau - Les Indes Galante - William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Paris Opera, 2005 ( BBC Opus Arte 2005).

Swell

  • Danielle de Niese homepage
  • Biography and discography at KlassikAkzente
  • Danielle de Niese Meet - you will want to. (Jessica Duchen 's classical music blog. )
  • Biography on the website of artist agency IMG Artists
  • Chip Brown: Opera 's Coolest Soprano. In: NYT Magazine (16 September 2009)
  • Opera singer
  • Soprano
  • Echo Klassik award winners
  • Australian
  • Born in 1979
  • Woman
Jean-Philippe Rameau Emmy Award Santa Fe (New Mexico) Glyndebourne Festival Opera William Christie (harpsichordist) Claudio Monteverdi Acis and Galatea (Handel) Integrated Authority File
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