Gloria Banditelli

mezzosoprano

Gloria Banditelli, specialising in the Baroque and Rossini repertory, has sung in some of the most important Italian and European theatres, including the Teatro alla Scala, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam under the baton of such conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Renée Clemencic, Vladimir Delman, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti.In 1999 she was invited to the Konzerthaus in Vienna for a recital and then returned to Florence for Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Gianni Schicchi. She has been recently heard in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona conducted by Trevor Pinnock, in Dido and Aeneas at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Madrid with Jordi Savall and directed by Gilbert Deflo. 2000 brought her to Cagliari for Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, to the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to portray Larina in Evgenij Onegin, to Lucca for Suor Angelica. She has recently sung Prova d’orchestra at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, and Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro Comunale Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.In 1998 Gloria Banditelli was heard also in Manon Lescaut at La Scala, in Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria in Athens and in La clemenza di Tito in St. Gallen. In 1997 she performed, among other things, in Il turco in Italia under Riccardo Chailly at the Teatro alla Scala, in Linda di Chamounix at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in The Legende of the Zar Sultan and in Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze.Gloria Banditelli’s concert activity includes Mendelssohn’s Elijah (at the Società del Quartetto in Milan and at the Ravenna Festival conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni), Beethoven’s IX Symphony at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as well as Bach’s Magnificat, Händel’s Messiah and Serse and Monteverdi’s Orfeo.Highlights of Gloria Banditelli’s future engagements include Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle in Stuttgart, Giulio Cesare at the Opéra of Montecarlo and Farnace at the Teatro Nacional la Zarzuela in Madrid.In previous seasons Gloria Banditelli has been heard in Gluck’s Alceste (Ismene), Davide Penitente by Mozart, as Larina in Evgenij Onegin at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in Fetonte by Jommelli, in I vespri Siciliani at the Teatro alla Scala with Riccardo Muti, as Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto, as Tisbe in La cenerentola in Florence and Bologna with Riccardo Chailly and on tour in Japan, as Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro with Riccardo Muti at the Wiener Staatsoper, in Nozze di Teti e Peleo at the Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro, as Penelope in Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Lucrezia Borgia at the Festival Donizetti di Bergamo, as Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and in L’occasione fa il ladro at La Scala and in Rome. Gloria Banditelli has recorded for Radio France, for the Westdeutsche Rundfunk, for Austrian and Dutch Radio, for the Swiss Television, and on RAI. She can be heard on Fonit-Cetra, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, Denon, Frequenz, Nuova Era, Tactus, and Bongiovanni records. Born in Assisi, Gloria Banditelli graduated in singing at the Conservatorio di Perugia. In 1979 she was a winner of the «Concorso del TeatroSperimentale» in Spoleto, where she debuted in the title roles of La cenerentola and Dido and Aneas.