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Gemma Bertagnolli The path to an international career was opened for
Gemma Bertagnolli by successes at the AsLiCo and
Francesco Viñas competitions. She has performed
on the stages of opera theaters and at festivals all over
the world, including: Teatro alla Scala, Teatro La
Fenice, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, opera houses in
Turin, Rome and Zürich, the Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Musikfestspiele
in Potsdam, Salzburger Festspiele and Festival
Pergolesi in Jesi. Bertagnolli performs parts in
operatic works from the Classical era as well as the
Italian bel canto; most often, however, she draws
upon the Baroque repertoire. She has collaborated
with such artists as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Marc
Minkowski, René Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Ottavio
Dantone, Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Biondi and their
ensembles. Beyond this, she performs solo parts in
oratorio and cantata works, from the Baroque era
as well as the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. She
has sung under the direction of the following artists:
Roberto Abbado, Bruno Bartoletti, Maurizio Benini,
Semyon Bychkov, Diego Fasolis, Gabriele Ferro,
Danielle Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Gianluigi
Gelmetti, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Andreas Spering, and Simone Young. Bertagnolli
has taken part in several recordings of works by
A. Vivaldi (Orlando finto pazzo with the Academia
Montis Regalis under the direction of Alessandro
de Marchi, La verità in cimento with Ensemble
Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Vespri
per l’Assunzione di Maria Vergine with Concerto
Italiano under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini
etc.), which were released in a special edition
on the Naïve label; and also in recordings of solo
parts from V. Bellini’s La Sonnambula with Cecilia
Bartoli and Juan Diego Florez (Decca), Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater with Concerto Italiano (Naïve),
E. Cavalieri’s Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo
and O. Respighi’s Liriche da camera (Stradivarius),
as well as F. Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 2 (RS).
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