Raquel Pierotti

Raquel Pierotti (born December 17, 1952, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in coloratura roles in the Rossini and Handel repertoire.

Biography

Raquel Pierotti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay where she got her graduation at the National Opera School and made her operatic debut in 1973 as Damigella nuziale in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro. In the same year she won the First Prize in the "Mozart Singing Competition" organized by Barcelona's Mozarteum and the Gold Medal from Radio Nacional de España (Spanish National Broadcasting) given to the most promising debutant of the season.

In 1980 made her operatic début in Spain at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona as Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. The following year she made her European débuts at the Opera de Paris as Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville, as well as at La Scala, Milan, as Marcellina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Since then she has been a frequent guest at La Scala where she sang Clarice in La pietra del paragone (Rossini), Smeton in Anna Bolena (Donizetti), Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini), Maddalena in Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini), Cecilio in Lucio Silla (Mozart), and Fenena in Nabucco (Verdi) for the 1986/1987 Season Opening Night as well as in the tournées in Berlin, Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama) and Bulgaria (Sofia, Varna). On November 2. 1988 she was invited to sing in a concert celebrating the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain Doña Sofía.

Roles

During her career she sang : Sextus and Cornelia (Giulio Cesare); Siebel (Faust); Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro); Cecilio (Lucio Silla); Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte); Zerlina (Don Giovanni); Angelina (La Cenerentola); Arsace (Semiramide); Isabella (L'Italiana in Algeri); Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) Andromaca (Ermione); Maddalena (Il viaggio a Reims); Clarice (La pietra del paragone); Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice); Fidalma (Il matrimonio segreto); Leonora (La Favorita); Adalgisa (Norma); Smeton (Anna Bolena); Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda); Carmen (Carmen); Sara (Roberto Devereux); Romeo (Capuleti e Montecchi); Agnese (Beatrice di Tenda); Giulietta (Les contes d'Hoffmann); Salud and la Abuela (La vida breve); Ottavia (L'incoronazione di Poppea); Preziosilla (La forza del destino); Meg and Quickly (Falstaff ); Climene (Saffo); Suzuki (Madama Butterfly); Berenice (Il Farnace); Vagans (Juditha triumphans); Mrs. Slender (Falstaff-Salieri), Cecilia (Las Golondrinas), Zulima (Los amantes de Teruel), Aurora (Doña Francisquita), Señá Rita (La verbena de la Paloma), Mariana (Luisa Fernanda), Nurse (Boris Godunov)...

Symphonic Repertoire

Rossini: Stabat Mater, Petite Messe Sollennelle, Argene e Melania and Giovanna D'Arco Haendel: Messiah Mozart: Coronation Mass and Requiem Beethoven: Symphony nª 9 Pablo Casals: El pessebre Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Stravinsky: Pulcinella Bach: Magnificat Jaume Alaquer: Requiem Tomás Bretón: Apocalipsis Verdi: Requiem Mendelssohn: Paulus Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans

Recordings

Il barbiere di Siviglia - Berta (Riccardo Chailly) Il viaggio a Reims - Maddalena (Claudio Abbado) Le comte Ory - Ragonde (John Eliot Gardiner) Giulio Cesare - Cornelia (Marcello Panni) La verbena de la Paloma - Señá Rita and La Dolores-Gaspara both with Plácido Domingo (Antoni Ros-Marbá) Viento es la dicha de amor-Amor (Christophe Coin) El pessebre (Lawrence Foster); Il Farnace - Berenice (Massimiliano Carraro) El llibre vermell (Antoni Ros-Marbá), Requiem - Jaume Alaquer (Joan Company) Luisa Fernanda - Mariana (Jesús López Cobos) Falstaff - Meg (Daniel Oren) Nabucco - Fenena (Riccardo Muti) Hommage à Rossini (TV 1985)

Awards

Maurice Ravel National Contest Artigas - Washington Contest Plácido Domigo Award Francisco Viñas Singing Competition Mozart Singing Competition, Barcelona's Mozarteum Gold Medal from Radio Nacional de España Alas Awards 2010 Intendencia de Montevideo Homage