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Francesca Patanè
Francesca Patanè was born in Milan into a family of distinguished musicians, her father being the famous conductor Giuseppe Patanè, her grandfather famous conductor Franco Patanè and her mother, the renowned vocal teacher Rita Patanè, has been very important in her musical education as well as her musical training at the Manhattan School of Music. She grew up between Berlin and New York, where she also worked as a fashion – model and studied languages: she is fluent in English, French and German.
With her stunning technique, magnificent stage presence and subtle expression, Francesca Patanè is Italy’s foremost singing-actress of stellar quality and supreme artistry.
She excels in the lyric-dramatic roles of Turando (over 300 performances), Lady Macbeth(over 150 performances), Salome(famous her opening night at the Rome Opera in January 2007, Tosca and a range of demanding operatic characterizations.
Her unique portrayal of Lady Macbeth is explosive and justly praised for its psychological depth and gripping dramatic intensity.
She also specializes in the verismo roles of Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea, Alfano…and was voted best soprano in the production of Fanciulla Del West in Essen in 2002.
Her career started in 1993 in Torino with Adriana Lecouvreur and since then she has been singing in the major houses such as: Roma, Torino, Trieste, Treviso, Genova, Verona, Torre del Lago, Bari, Macerata, Cagliari, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Piacenza, Ferrara, Vienna State Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Berlin Deutshe Oper, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Essen, Rotterdamm, Cardiff, Bolshoi Moscau (opening of the season in Turandot) Budapest, Athens, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Palma de Majorca, Sant’Ander, Bilbao, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei, Goteborg, Cape Town, Helsinki, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Toulon, Nizza.
She has participated in many TV shows, has a CD of Turandot (COMPANION), DVD of Tosca live and an ARIA RECORDING live of a concert with Renato Bruson.
To be released a CD of Tosca live with Andrea Bocelli and a DVD of Turandot live from Hong Kong.
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