Opera, died Daniela Dessi, – BBC

whether it was “the best soprano of the last twenty years,” as stated in the grip of Fabio Armiliato pain, her partner in life and often on the scene, we can not say. On the other hand, the clash absolute comparative in themselves, a fortiori in circumstances such as this one, terrible, the untimely death of Daniela Dessi, singer even in his sixties who has trod the boards of all the major opera houses of the world and that missed yesterday in a hospital in Brescia, where he was hospitalized for a sudden illness that has struck down in a few weeks (the funeral will be celebrated tomorrow in the Cathedral of Brescia, then the body will be buried in the cemetery of Gussago where the soprano resided) .

Without fear of contradiction, however, we can say that was a soprano Daniela Dessi beloved . And the main reason for this is that in an age of specialization and interpreters constructed in the laboratory, has been able to beautifully embody the figure of the singer once, born and raised in an environment where it operates chewed like bread, where sing the arias of this or that character was the most easy and natural thing in the world because it was music that was known, not that you learned. Comely, curvy, passionate, witty, well-rounded character on the scene, the “Danielona,” as he affectionately called among insiders, was short, perhaps the last popular singer: the voice of a lyric tradition that is disappearing. And this popular size has not basically betrayed altogether in recent years when, with decreasing the ring, it is not beyond the appearances in the Sanremo Festival with Francesco Renga or other television shows, indeed, not at his level.

Do not betrayed because you are presented with the right spirit . In the construction of the interpretative profile, however, there was not even a shadow of spontaneity. We’re not talking about the maid to which a someone discovers by accident the beautiful voice and turns it the next day in diva, like the Fairy, Cinderella, to “dance” of Salzburg. Daniela Dessi had full technical and stylistic awareness of what he was doing. It was serious performer. A few years ago at a conference in Verona on Maria Callas she astonished the defendants for the acumen with which he analyzed under a microscope – best of “vociologhi” – highly technical aspects of the vocal style of the Divine, of which she was an admirer since girl. And just because he is aware of the pitfalls of the various authors and the changing of his instrument, almost never the wrong choices of repertoire, including Rossini and bel canto, Verdi and Puccini, and finally the Verismo. He was no longer at the peak of his career. But will the same.

August 21, 2016 (modified August 21, 2016 | 20:45)

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