ANNA BONITATIBUS

Graduated in singing and piano and winner of several international competitions, she made her debut at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona in Vivaldi’s Tamerlano.

From then on, to her large baroque repertoire she joined Rossini repertoire with such titles as La Cenerentola (Lione, Bologna, Roma, Munich, Moscow, Dresden, Zurich) Il barbiere di Siviglia (Florence and Parma), Le comte Ory, Il viaggio a Reims, Petite Messe Solennelle (Milan) and Stabat Mater (Rossini Opera Festival). As fine Mozartian mezzosoprano, she performed Don Giovanni at the Teatro alla Scala and at the Théâtre de Champs-Élysées in Paris, Le nozze di Figaro in Munich, Paris, Turin; Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito in Amsterdam, Copenaghen; Mass in C in Salzburg. Her huge repertoire also includes Norma (Napoli), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Genova, Tenerife), Lucrezia Borgia (Bilbao), Les contes d’Hoffmann (Lione), Orphée et Euridice (Munich, Moscow), L’enfant et les sortilèges (Verona) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Las Palmas).

She works intensively in the concert field, her repertoire ranges from Monteverdi and Pergolesi to Händel, from Beethoven to Berlioz and Prokoviev.

She collaborated with such important conductors as Ivor Bolton, Daniele Callegari, Bruno Campanella, Giuliano Carella, Myung-Whun Chung, Alan Curtis, Ottavio Dantone, René Jacobs, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Marc Minkowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Evelino Pidò, Stefano Ranzani, Marcello Viotti, Stephan Anton Reck, Donato Renzetti, Jordi Savall, Jeffrey Tate, Alberto Zedda, and with stage directors as Daniele Abbado, Beppe De Tomasi, Mario Monicelli, Luca Ronconi and Emilio Sagi.

This last season has brought her to perform Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi, La clemenza di Tito in Budapest, Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno at the Cité de la musique in Paris and in Zürich, Le nozze di Figaro at the Theater an der Wien and in Munich, Petite Messe Solennelle at Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania and La Vergine dei dolori at the Salzburg Festival (under Riccardo Muti’s baton). She has also made a warm success debuting at the Covent Garden in London with Orlando.

Her future engagements include, among others, Werther at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, Médée at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Giulio Cesare in Bruxelles and in Amsterdam, Mozart Requiem at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Le nozze di Figaro at the Covent Garden in London and in Munich and Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

She recorded Vivaldi’s Griselda and Beatus Vir and Verdi’s Falstaff (Naxos); Adelia by Donizetti and La Maddalena ‘a piedi (Ricordi); Händel’s Tamerlano (on Cd and Dvd); Scarlatti’s Lettere amorose (Virgin); Händel’s Deidamia; Gluck’s Arias (Amadeus); Haydn’s Requiem and Mozart’s Davide penitente live recording from the Salzburg Festival 2004 (Oehms Classics).