Anita Cerquetti - Operatic Reictal flac album

Anita Cerquetti made only two commercial recordings, both for Decca under the baton of Gianandrea Gavazzeni. In 1957 she sang the title role in a complete La Gioconda with Mario del Monaco and Giulietta Simionato also reissued by Eloquence. From the year before we also have this operatic recital in early stereo sound. There should have been many more recordings, but Cerquetti was forced to retire both from the stage and from singing altogether in 1961, aged only 30, with vocal problems putting paid to an all-too-meteoric career.

Anita Cerquetti made only two commercial recordings, both for Decca under the baton of Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

Anita Cerquetti - most certainly one of the very greatest voices of the 20th-century and one of the most kind-hearted and pleasant of primadonne. The pieces on this CD demonstrate most amply how much the world of opera lost at her early retirement. For beauty of expression, perfection of tone and sheer excitement, Mme Cerquetti was/is unmatched. I have bought this CD no less than 9 times - every time I have loaned it to a friend and it has never returned. I do not begrudge this except for the time it takes me to locate another new copy.

Anita Cerquetti (13 April 1931 – 11 October 2014) was an Italian dramatic soprano who had a short but meteoric career in the 1950s. Her voice was very powerful and pleasing to audiences. Career Cerquetti was born in Montecosaro, near Macerata, Italy. She originally studied violin and trained eight years with Luigi Mori. After a mere year of vocal study at the Conservatory of Perugia, she made her operatic debut in Spoleto in 1951 as Aida. She sang all over Italy, notably in Florence as Noraime in Gli Abencerragi (the Italian version of Les Abencérages) under Carlo Maria Giulini in 1956, and as Elvira in Ernani under Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1957. Cerquetti was born in Montecosaro, near Macerata, Italy. Cerquetti made headlines in January 1958 when she replaced "in extremis" the ailing Maria Callas in Norma, at the Rome Opera House. She was already singing the role at the San Carlo in Naples. She commuted between the two cities to honor both engagements for several weeks.

Anita Cerquetti, soprano Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Track listing, artists. Giuseppe verdi (1813–1901). Il mio braccia t’afferra! Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano · Mario del Monaco, tenor · Ettore Bastianini, baritone. Anita Cerquetti, soprano Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Gianandrea Gavazzeni. RECORDING INFORMATION