Cosí fan tutte programme book 2023

BIOGRAPHIES
ANNALISA MONTICELLI
RÉPÉTITEUR
LANGUAGE COACH
Annalisa Monticelli is a highly
sought-after musician who has
performed and recorded in Europe,
Asia, North and South America as a
soloist, with vocal and instrumental
ensembles, and with various
orchestras. She studied piano, voice, conducting,
chamber music, jazz and education in Italy and
the USA with renowned musicians including Bruno
Canino, Daniel Rivera, Eugenia Rozental, Cinzia Gizzi
and Douglas Weeks. She gave her first solo recital
at the age of 10 and gained her first piano degree at
the age of 16 with maximum marks. She started her
professional coaching career working for the Montalto
Opera programme in Montalto Ligure in Italy under
the guidance of tenor Ugo Benelli and accompanying
masterclasses by Wagnerian soprano Rebecca Turner
and others. After three years in the USA, she moved
to Ireland in 2014 to work as a répétiteur for the Royal
Irish Academy of Music, where she later became
Italian and vocal coach. Since then she has performed
in all Irish major venues, released CDs, worked as
Italian coach, accompanied masterclasses for the
Institut StimmKünst in Zurich and performed and
taught in Italy, England, Poland, France, Lithuania,
Malaysia and north America. To further her education,
she is undertaking a PhD in TU Dublin. Her research
focuses on Michele Esposito and his piano school
based in Dublin in the late nineteenth century. She
is currently programme director/répétiteur at DkIT
Dundalk; conductor of Anam Chamber Choir and
executive director/chief accompanist/Italian coach
for the Bassi Brugnatelli International Symposium.
ANNA DEVIN
SOPRANO
FIORDILIGI 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 AFTERNOON, 29, 31 MAY, 2 JUNE
Irish soprano Anna Devin is widely
admired for her “impeccable
Baroque style” (Bachtrack), and
“vocal control...artistry and musicodramatic
intelligence” (Opera
News). In addition to Così fan tutte,
her engagements in the current season have included
a tour of Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Orchestra of
the Age of Enlightenment and upcoming concerts in
the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. She has also
performed Elisabetta in Rossini’s Willian Tell for INO,
Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo with Glyndebourne Tour,
Michal in Handel’s Saul at the Théâtre du Châtelet
in Paris, Rosane in Vivaldi’s La verità in cimento at
Zurich Opera House and the title role in Cavalli’s
La calisto at Teatro Real, Madrid. In concert she has
performed Handel with the Irish Baroque Orchestra,
the Royal Northern Sinfonia and at the London Handel
Festival. She has also appeared at the Albert Hall
with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, given a New
Year’s Day concert with the RTÉ National Symphony
Orchestra, and performed Mendelssohn’s Symphony
No. 2 (Lobgesang) with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
In addition to her work on stage, she is proud to be
an Ambassador for the British Dyslexia Association.
She is passionate about nurturing new talent and
has given masterclasses at the Royal Irish Academy
of Music as well as coaching at the Royal Academy
Opera Course, London. When not on stage, she is a
keen runner and enjoys keeping fit and relaxing with
her husband, two daughters and a Norwegian Forest
Cat in their Bedfordshire home.
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