Maria
Pellegrini, Soprano
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"Thursday night I heard what I can only describe
as 'the total Cio-Cio-San'...Miss Pellegrini looks the part of the petite
Cio-Cio-San, she acts the role to perfection, and the voice meets the challenge
of the soaring Puccinian line. TO FALL BACK on that cliche of cliches, Maria
Pellegrini IS Cio-Cio-San. She pulls us into the spirit of this bewitching,
childlike, most beloved of Oriental heroines. Most of all she, conveys so
poignantly the absolute vulnerability of the dainty geisha. Combine this with a
voice that soars to the climactic high D flat (on her first act entrance) that
still thrills with just the memory of it, and some idea is gathered of Miss
Pellegrini's entrancing Cio-Cio-San." - The Oregonian
Maria
Pellegrini is one of the world's brightest stars. She enjoys a brilliant career
which has taken her to the leading opera houses and concert halls of Europe,
Great Britain, Canada, United States, Asia, and the Caribbean including Royal
Opera House at Covent Garden, Royal Albert Hall, Welsh National Opera, English
National Opera, Scottish Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Felice di
Genoa, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Massimo
di Catania, Taormina, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, New York City Opera, New
Jersey State Opera, Baltimore Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Canadian Opera Company,
Vancouver Opera, L'Opera de Montreal, Teatro del' Opera di Santo Domingo,
Taipei Opera Festival among many others. She has performed with leading
orchestras including BBC Symphony, Royal Opera House Orch, London Philharmonic
Orch, Cincinnati Symphony Orch, Montreal Symphony, National Arts Centre Orch
etc...
Upcoming engagements in 2002-03
include gala concerts with l’Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce in Italy and the
Princeton Symphony in Palm Beach USA. Further appearances in Italy include
Madama Butterfly and Gala for the opening a new opera house in her native town
of Pescara Italy. Recent engagements in 2001-02 included Gala Concerts at
Dvorak Theatre in Czech Republic and concerts with Italian Philharmonic Orchestra
in Toronto. In October she gave performances
of Traviata in Poland for the Teatr
Weilki as well as concerts in Warsaw and Poznan where critics wrote, “ a star turn as Violetta”...”she sang memorable
arias in her rich and warm soprano voice” Warsaw Voice Oct 2001.
October 2002
