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Anna Chierichetti
At age five, Anna Chierichetti began instruction
in piano performance. She studied singing and
chamber music in Milan at the Verdi Conservatory,
from which she graduated at the top of her class.
Du ring her studies, Chierichetti took part in master
classes (E. Battaglia, S. Tuzzi, R. Celletti, L. Gencer,
R. Scotto, E. Ameling), as well as voice competitions,
reaching the final many times and winning 1 st Prizes
at the Festival della Lirica in Sanremo and the
AsLiCo. She debuted in 1995 as Adina in G. Donizetti’s
L’Elisir d’amore at Circuito Lombardo, where
she later appeared in productions of G. Verdi’s Rigoletto
and Falstaff, as well as W. A. Mozart’s Così fan
tutte. This artist has been hosted by opera theaters
and festivals all over the world, presenting roles in
operatic works from the Baroque to the expressive
works of R. Strauss and R. Wagner. Among her
more important achievements are performances at
Teatro alla Scala (R. Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten,
A. Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta and H. Purcell’s
Dido and Aeneas, and F. Vacchi’s Teneke under the
direction of Roberto Abbado) and the Paris Opera
(G. F. Handel’s Alcina); along with her debuts at the
Salzburger Festspiele under the direction of Fabio
Biondi, as well as at Teatro Real in Madrid and Covent
Garden as part of a tour with John Eliot Gardiner
and his ensemble. Chierichetti has also collaborated
with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christopher Hogwood
and Riccardo Muti. For the audience at Festival
d’Aix-en-Provence, she prepared madrigals by
C. Monteverdi; at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia in Rome, she sang J. S. Bach’s Magnificat;
and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, she took
part in a concert performance of the opera Falstaff.
The artist became known to Kraków music lovers in
2009, when she appeared as a guest artist in a production
of W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
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Photo: From the artist’s archives