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Danielle de Niese

Australian-American lyric soprano (born )

Danielle de Niese

Danielle de Niese, Metropolitan Opera House,

Born () 11 April (age&#;45)

Melbourne, Australia

NationalityAustralian
OccupationOperaticsoprano
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Gus Christie

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Danielle de Niese (born 11 April ) is an Australian-American lyric soprano.

After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the United States where she developed her operatic career. From she came to widespread public attention with her performances as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England.[1]

Early life

De Niese was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, after her parents, Chris and Beverly, had migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia as teenagers.[2] She is a Sri Lankan Burgher with some Dutch and Scottish heritage.[2] In , at the age of nine, she became the youngest winner of the Australian TV talent competition, Young Talent Time.

In the competition, she was singing a Whitney Houston medley, for which the prize was A$ 5, and a Yamaha baby grand piano, which she still owns.[2]

In , her family moved to Los Angeles, where she became a regular guest host of the TV programme L.A. Kids for which she won an Emmy Award at the age of [3]

Career

De Niese made her professional operatic debut at the age of 15 with the Los Angeles Opera.

She became the youngest singer ever to participate in the Young Artists Studio at the Metropolitan Opera,[4] where she debuted in at the age of 19 as Barbarina in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro directed by Jonathan Miller and conducted by James Levine. She studied voice privately with Ruth Falcon, and at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan.[5]

Ridley Scott's film Hannibal features a scene from Dante'sLa Vita Nuova; in it, de Niese sings as the character Beatrice the song "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy.

She was subsequently asked to perform the title role in the Met's production of Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges. Other Met roles include Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (), Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice (), and Susanna in the same production of The Marriage of Figaro in which she sang Barbarina in [6]

De Niese's career has ranged through Baroque music (Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea), via Handel, Mozart and contemporary opera premieres (RAAFF by Robin de Raaff, , Dutch National Opera)[7] at major opera houses around the world, to Broadway (Les Misérables) and film (Hannibal) roles.

She has appeared in productions of a number of Baroque operas on stage and on DVD, including the Les Arts Florissants production of Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, and as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, directed by David McVicar, at Glyndebourne in , and , and in the same production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in

At the end of , when De Nederlandse Opera staged the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, de Niese sang Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Despina in Così fan tutte.

In , de Niese made her Covent Garden debut in The Royal Opera's production of Handel's Acis and Galatea, directed by choreographer Wayne McGregor and recorded on DVD.[8]

Beginning on 31 December and continuing through January , de Niese appeared as Ariel in The Enchanted Island, a pastiche opera created by Jeremy Sams for the Metropolitan Opera.

The performance on 21 January was broadcast worldwide as a MET HD video transmission. She has subsequently returned to the Met as Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare (), Despina in Così fan tutte () and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro ().[6]

In March de Niese appeared as Norina in Don Pasquale at the San Diego Opera.[9] She performed that role again the following year at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.[10] In November she portrayed Poppaea in Handel's Agrippina at the Liceu.[11] In she appeared as the title heroine in Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto at the Bavarian State Opera, sang Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress at the Teatro Regio di Turino, and performed the title role in Handel's Partenope at the San Francisco Opera.[5]

In February de Niese sang Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro at the Hamburg State Opera.

In August she returned to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in performances of Concepción in L'heure espagnole and the title role in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges.[12] In December she created the role of Roxane Coss in the world premiere of Jimmy López's opera Bel Canto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.[13]

saw her stage debut in Australia as Hanna Glawari in Graeme Murphy's production of The Merry Widow for Opera Australia in performances at the Arts Centre Melbourne and the Sydney Opera House, conducted by Vanessa Scammell.[14]

In September , she was featured as the castaway on long-running BBC Radio 4 programme, Desert Island Discs.[15]

In she played Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha with English National Opera at the London Coliseum opposite Kelsey Grammer as Cervantes/Quixote, Peter Polycarpou as Sancho, and Nicholas Lyndhurst as the Governor/Innkeeper.[16]

In February she created the title role in the world premiere of Eurydice, written by Matthew Aucoin with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, at the Los Angeles Opera.[17] In May she sang the role of Giulietta in the West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Aspects of Love at the Lyric Theatre, London.[18]

In , she was named number seven on Tatler's best dressed list.[19]

Albums

Personal life

De Niese (called Danni by her friends and colleagues) married Gus Christie, grandson of John Christie and chairman of Glyndebourne Festival Opera,[21] on 19 December in St Bartholomew-the-Great, London.[22] Since her marriage she has lived at Glyndebourne in Sussex, England.

The couple have two children.[23]

In she was invited to become a patron of the Australian performing arts charity the Tait Memorial Trust[24]

References

  1. ^"Opera star Danielle de Niese lost her voice during pregnancy ahead of audition".

    The Independent.

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    Danielle de niese soprano biography Harry Bicket. Archived from the original on 17 June With her "sweet, gleaming soprano", "phenomenal musicality" and "sharply comic, yet utterly moving" acting, combined with youth and physical presence, Danielle de Niese regularly graces many of the world's most prestigious opera and concert stages. Wikidata item.

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  11. ^Erica Jeal (19 April ). "Dido and Aeneas; Acis and Galatea". The Guardian.
  12. ^Monica Garske (20 March ).

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  13. ^Rupert Christiansen (6 June ). "Donizetti: Don Pasquale, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, review: 'sparkling'". The Telegraph.
  14. ^Javier Pérez Senz (16 November ). "El Liceo levanta el telón con Agrippina". El País (in Spanish).
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  16. ^Kyle Macmillan (9 February ). "World Premiere of Bel Canto Among Lyric Opera Highlights of –16 Season". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 31 May
  17. ^"Danielle de Niese comes home to star in Opera Australia's The Merry Widow" by Elissa Blake, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November
  18. ^"Desert Island Discs: Danielle de Niese".

    BBC. Retrieved 21 September

  19. ^Man of La Mancha – English National Opera website ()
  20. ^"Eurydice Fact Sheet". Los Angeles Opera. Archived from the original on 4 October Retrieved 4 February
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  27. ^"Tatler's best dressed: the 25 top style mavens and mavericks are crowned in the sizzling September issue". Tatler. 28 July Retrieved 8 August
  28. ^Beauty of the Baroque: "Ombra mai fu" (G. F. Handel), "Pur ti miro" (from Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, with Andreas Scholl), "Sich üben im Lieben" (from J.

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  29. ^Chrissy Iley (28 March ). "Diva of the Downs Danielle de Niese". The Times. Archived from the original on 15 June Retrieved 9 July
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  31. ^"Gus Christie and Danielle de Niese announce the birth of their daughter", , November
  32. ^"Tait Patrons". Tait Memorial Trust. 14 March Retrieved 24 March

External links

  • Official website
  • Opera Lively interview[usurped]
  • Danielle de Niese at IMDb
  • Classical Archives Interview (regionally restricted access)
  • Recital, May on YouTube, NPR Music, (Le) Poisson Rouge, "Let the bright Seraphim" from Samson, "Come Again" and "What if I never speed?" by John Dowland, "Quel sguardo sdegnosetto" by Claudio Monteverdi
  • Danielle de Niese at TED – "A flirtatious aria", performance of "Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß" (Giuditta, Lehár) TEDGlobal