Anita Cerquetti
Anita Cerquetti ( born April 13, 1931 in Montecosaro, Macerata Province) is an Italian soprano.
Life
Cerquetti completed his vocal studies at the Liceo Musicale Morlacchi in Perugia. In 1949 she made her debut in a concert. Her stage debut came in 1951 in Spoleto in the title role of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. In 1954 she made guest appearances at the Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia in the title role of the opera by Alfredo Catalani Loreley. In 1955 she sang in Florence Abigail in Nabucco.
She performed several times at the Arena di Verona. 1953, she sang Aida and Leonora in Il Trovatore. In 1956 she sang the title role in the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli. In 1957 the title role in the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, with Franco Corelli as Giulietta Simionato Pollione and Adalgisa.
In the season 1955/1956 she sang for the first time at the Lyric Opera in Chicago. Your first role there was to Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. 1956/1957 she was at the Opera of Rome again Aida, with Franco Corelli as a partner.
In January 1957, she sang in Florence Amelia in Un ballo in maschera. Your partner were Ebe Stignani, Gianni Poggi and Ettore Bastianini. When Maggio Musicale Fiorentino she performed in 1957 as Noraime in Les Abencerrages by Luigi Cherubini. Under the direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos followed in 1957 also in Florence Elvira in Ernani at the side of Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini and Boris Christoff.
In 1957 she appeared at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Aida, Elisabetta di Valois as in Don Carlo (again with Franco Corelli as a partner ) and as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni on. In the summer of 1957 she sang in the Baths of Caracalla, the Aida and Leonora in La forza del destino.
Self she had 1957 in the Town Hall in New York in the opera Paride ed Elena by Christoph Willibald Gluck, in Philadelphia ( as Norma ) and Mexico City ( October 1957 as a troubadour Leonora and Aida ). In the fall of 1957 followed by appearances at the Lyric Opera in Chicago as Amelia and Elisabetta di Valois. In December 1957 and in January 1958 she appeared at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as Norma.
She became famous when she stepped in on January 4, 1958, two days after a normalization idea in Naples, for the diseased Maria Callas as Norma at the Opera of Rome. In January 1958, she sang then alternately in Rome and Naples respectively Norma. In February 1958 was followed by further Norma performances in Naples.
In June 1958 she made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Abigail. Your partner Giulietta Simionato were, Gianni Poggi, Ettore Bastianini and Nicola Zaccaria. In 1958, she appeared again in Mexico City ( Forza Leonora, Aida ) and in Philadelphia ( October 1958 as a troubadour Leonora ). In 1959 Cerquetti did not appear on the operatic stage. In 1960, she returned for several concert performances of sacred music at La Scala in Milan. In September 1960, Cerquetti also returned to the stage and sang opera in Lucca Amelia in Un ballo in maschera. In October 1960 performances followed as Abigail in Holland, where already showed vocal difficulties. The performances in Hilversum were her last public appearance as a singer.
Cerquetti then studied for the opera house in Palermo, although the role of Imogene in Bellini's opera Il pirata one, but said in the short term all the performances, since they do not feel prepared enough to make this game already singing. A short time later, she ended her career and completely withdrew into private life. The reasons for this retreat were never fully explained. Cerquetti later stated in an interview that she would have the stress and the constant deadlines do not want to expose further.
Cerquetti has only made two commercial recordings for Decca during her brief career. 1957 published an album of Italian opera arias as well as the complete recording of the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli.
In 1996, she starred in the film wastes the love of Werner Schroeter with. In this poetic and melancholic documentary she told front of the camera once again about her career and the loss of her voice. Schroeter transferred Cerquetti the final scene of the film, in which she sings once more to their sound recordings from the 1950s in the playback. The film was released on DVD in 2009. 1999 was followed by another documentary, Opera Fanatic by Jan Schmidt- Garre, can be seen in the Cerquetti also together with other important Italian opera singers of the 20th century in an interview.