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{{Short description|Italian opera singer (1935–2023)}}
{{Short description|Italian opera singer (1935–2023)}}
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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Margherita Rinaldi
| name = Margherita Rinaldi
| image = Margherita Rinaldi.jpg
| image = Margherita Rinaldi.jpg
| caption = Rinaldi in ''[[Radiocorriere]]'' magazine (1971)
| caption = Rinaldi in ''[[Radiocorriere]]'' magazine, 1971
| birth_date = {{birth-date|12 January 1935}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|01|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Turin]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]
| birth_place = [[Turin]], Italy
| death_date = {{Death-date and age|7 September 2023|12 January 1935}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|09|07|1935|01|12|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Impruneta]], [[Metropolitan City of Florence|Florence]], Italy
| death_place = [[Florence]], Italy
| occupation = [[Lyric soprano]]
| occupation = [[Lyric soprano]]
| organizations = [[La Scala]]
}}
}}


'''Margherita Rinaldi''' (12 January 1935 – 7 September 2023) was an Italian [[lyric soprano]], primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s. She later worked as a voice teacher.
'''Margherita Rinaldi''' (12 January 1935 – 7 September 2023) was an Italian [[lyric soprano]], primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s, after she made her debut as Donizetti's [[Lucia di Lammermoor]] in 1958, prompting her career at [[La Scala]] in Milan. She also appeared internationally, performing a wide repertoire including, besides Italian [[belcanto]] roles, [[Baroque opera|Baroque]] and [[French opera]]. She recorded the roles of Gilda in Verdi's ''[[Rigoletto]]'' and Ilia in Mozart's ''[[Idomeneo]]''. From 1981, she worked as a [[voice teacher]].


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Margherita Rinaldi was born in [[Turin]], Italy, and completed her music studies in [[Rovigo]].<ref name="Connessi" /> She won the Belli voice competition in [[Spoleto]], appearing there in 1958 in the title role of Donizetti's ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]''.<ref name="Connessi" /> Her debut at [[La Scala]] in Milan came the following year as Sinaide in Rossini's ''[[Mosè in Egitto]]''. Rinaldi sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy, in roles such as Amina in Bellini's ''[[La sonnambula]]'', Donizetti's Adina in ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'' and Norina in ''[[Don Pasquale]]'', and especially Gilda in Verdi's ''[[Rigoletto]]''. She also excelled in [[List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|operas by Mozart]] and by [[Domenico Cimarosa|Cimarosa]].
Margherita Rinaldi was born in [[Turin]] on 12 January 1935,<ref name="Fondazione Arena" /> and completed her music studies in [[Rovigo]].<ref name="Connessi" /> She won the Belli voice competition of the [[Teatro Lirico Sperimentale]] in Spoleto, appearing there in 1958 in the title role of Donizetti's ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]''.<ref name="Connessi" /> The success prompted her debut at [[La Scala]] in Milan the following year as Sinaide in Rossini's ''[[Mosè in Egitto]]''.<ref name="Wackenberger" /> She first performed at the [[Arena di Verona]] in 1962, as Oscar in Verdi's ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'', alongside [[Leyla Gencer]], [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]], and conducted by [[Gianandrea Gavazzeni]]. She performed at the [[Teatro Filarmonico]] of Verona as Amelia in Verdi's ''[[Simon Boccanegra]]'' in 1979, alongside [[Renato Bruson]] in the title role, directed by {{ill|Filippo Crivelli|it}} and conducted by [[Roberto Abbado]].<ref name="Fondazione Arena" />


Rinaldi won acclaim as Giulietta in [[Claudio Abbado]]'s version of Bellini's ''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'', opposite [[Giacomo Aragall]] and [[Luciano Pavarotti]], at La Scala in 1966, and also as Linda in a revival of ''[[Linda di Chamounix]]'' there in 1972, opposite [[Alfredo Kraus]]. She sang a wide variety of roles for [[RAI]] between 1963 and 1975, such as Bertha in Meyerbeer's ''[[Le Prophète]]'', Cleopatra in Handel's ''[[Giulio Cesare]]'', Ginevra in ''[[Ariodante]]'', and Noraime in ''[[Les Abencérages]]''. She recorded Verdi's ''[[La traviata]]'' with Pavarotti in Dublin in 1964.
Rinaldi appeared at La Scala as Gilda in Verdi's ''[[Rigoletto]]'', Nannetta in ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'',<ref name="Salazar" /> in 1966 as Giulietta in Bellini's ''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'', alongside [[Giacomo Aragall]] and [[Luciano Pavarotti]], when [[Claudio Abbado]] conducted a new [[Textual criticism|critical edition]], and as Linda in a revival of ''[[Linda di Chamounix]]'' in 1972, alongside [[Alfredo Kraus]].<ref name="Wackenberger" /> She sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy, in roles such as Amina in Bellini's ''[[La sonnambula]]'', Donizetti's Adina in ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'' and Norina in ''[[Don Pasquale]]'', and Verdi's Gilda. She also excelled in [[List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|operas by Mozart]] and by [[Domenico Cimarosa|Cimarosa]].<ref name="Salazar" />


She sang a wide variety of roles for [[RAI]] between 1963 and 1975, such as Bertha in Meyerbeer's ''[[Le Prophète]]'', Handel's Cleopatra in ''[[Giulio Cesare]]'' and Ginevra in ''[[Ariodante]]'', and Noraime in Cherubini's ''[[Les Abencérages]]''.<ref name="Wackenberger" /> She recorded Verdi's ''[[La traviata]]'' with Pavarotti in Dublin in 1964.<ref name="Salazar" />
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In 1977 she had a triumph singing Amenaide in Rossini's ''[[Tancredi]]'' alongside [[Marilyn Horne]] at Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. Reviewers noted limpid quality and agility of her voice, and her stylistic security.<ref name="Connessi" /> Angelo Sguerzi wrote for ''Stirpi canore'' about her "homogeneity of timbre, equality of registers, smooth and clear extension up to E-flat on the top, gentle, demure phrasing, without melodramaticism of dubious taste".<ref name="Connessi" />


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In 1977 she had a triumph singing Amenaide in Rossini's ''[[Tancredi]]'' alongside [[Marilyn Horne]] at [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]]. Reviewers noted then the limpid quality and agility of her voice, and her stylistic security.<ref name="Connessi" /> Angelo Sguerzi wrote for ''Stirpi canore'' about her "homogeneity of timbre, equality of registers, smooth and clear extension up to E-flat on the top, gentle, demure phrasing, without melodramaticism of dubious taste".<ref name="Connessi" />
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In 1978, Rinaldi appeared as Adalgisa in a production of Bellini's ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' at the [[Teatro Comunale, Florence|Teatro Comunale]] in Florence. Conducted by [[Riccardo Muti]] and starring [[Renata Scotto]] in the title role, these performances offered the Florentine public a rare chance to hear a lyric soprano as the younger, more vulnerable character of Adalgisa, according to the composer's intention. In November of the same year Rinaldi sang Ines in Meyerbeer's ''[[L'Africaine]]'' at the [[Royal Opera House|Royal Opera, Covent Garden]], opposite [[Plácido Domingo]] and [[Grace Bumbry]].


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In 1978, Rinaldi appeared as Adalgisa in a production of Bellini's ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' at the [[Teatro Comunale, Florence|Teatro Comunale]] in Florence. Conducted by [[Riccardo Muti]] and starring [[Renata Scotto]] in the title role, she performed the role in the original soprano register.<ref name="Wackenberger" />
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Rinaldi also enjoyed a successful international career, making her American debut at the [[Dallas Opera]] as Gilda in 1966. Her debut at the [[San Francisco Opera]] was as Lucia in 1968. She also sang at the [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]]. Rinaldi also performed at the [[Glyndebourne Festival|Glyndebourne]], [[Wexford Festival|Wexford]] and [[Bregenz Festival|Bregenz]] festivals.


=== International career ===
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Rinaldi made only two commercial opera recordings, as Gilda in ''Rigoletto'' opposite [[Rolando Panerai]] and [[Franco Bonisolli]], which was also the soundtrack of a German television production, and as Ilia in Mozart's ''[[Idomeneo]]'' with [[Sir Colin Davis]] conducting.<ref name="Connessi" /> Luckily, unofficial "pirate" recordings have preserved several of her live performances: the Spoleto ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', the Scala ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' and ''Linda di Chamounix'', the RAI ''Le Prophète'', a 1967 ''Rigoletto'' from Turin, and the 1978 ''Norma'' from Florence.
⚫
Rinaldi enjoyed a successful international career, making her American debut at the [[Dallas Opera]] as Gilda in 1966. Her debut at the [[San Francisco Opera]] was as Lucia in 1968. She also sang at the [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]]. Rinaldi performed at the [[Glyndebourne Festival|Glyndebourne]], [[Wexford Festival|Wexford]] and [[Bregenz Festival|Bregenz]] festivals.<ref name="Salazar" /> In Bregenz, she appeared in 1967 as Carolina in Cimarosa's ''[[Il matrimonio segreto]]'' directed by Crivelli, with the [[Vienna Symphony]] conducted by [[Vittorio Gui]].<ref name="Bregenz" /> She appeared as Ines in Meyerbeer's ''[[L'Africaine]]'' at the [[Royal Opera House]] in London, alongside [[Plácido Domingo]] and [[Grace Bumbry]].<ref name="Wackenberger" />


=== Opera recordings ===
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Rinaldi was also an excellent performer of sacred music; she often sang with the [[RAI National Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="Connessi" /> She performed at La Scala Rossini's ''[[Petite Messe Solennelle]]'' or for RAI TV Mozart's ''[[Vesperae solennes de confessore (Mozart)|Vesperae solennes de confessore]]''. She took part in the first recording of Rossini's ''[[Messa di gloria]]'' (1974). She recorded two Bach cantatas, [[Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51|''Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'', BWV 51]], and [[Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199|''Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut'', BWV 199]], with [[Antonio Janigro]] and the Angelicum Orchestra of Milan for Ricordi.
⚫
Rinaldi made only two commercial opera recordings, as Gilda in ''Rigoletto'' opposite [[Rolando Panerai]] and [[Franco Bonisolli]], which was also the soundtrack of a German television production, and as Ilia in Mozart's ''[[Idomeneo]]'' with [[Sir Colin Davis]] conducting.<ref name="Connessi" /> Luckily, unofficial "pirate" recordings have preserved several of her live performances: the Spoleto ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', the Scala ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' and ''Linda di Chamounix'', the RAI ''Le Prophète'', a 1967 ''Rigoletto'' from Turin, and the 1978 ''Norma'' from Florence.<ref name="Wackenberger" />


=== Concert ===
⚫
Rinaldi was an excellent performer of sacred music; she often sang with the [[RAI National Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="Connessi" /> She performed the part of Maria Maddalena in [[Lorenzo Perosi]]'s [[oratorio]] ''La Resurrezione di Cristo'' in 1969<!--, with Zanasi and Gianni Raimondi-->, and was the soprano soloist in both Handel's ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'' in 1970, conducted by [[Bertola]], and in Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] in 1981.<ref name="Fondazione Arena" /> She performed at La Scala in Rossini's ''[[Petite messe solennelle]]'', and for RAI TV in Mozart's ''[[Vesperae solennes de confessore (Mozart)|Vesperae solennes de confessore]]''. She recorded [[Giacomo Carissimi|Carissimi]]'s ''Dives malus'' with [[Angelo Ephrikian]], and took part in the first recording of Rossini's ''[[Messa di Gloria]]'' in 1974.<ref name="Wackenberger" /> She recorded two Bach cantatas, [[Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51|''Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'', BWV 51]], and [[Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199|''Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut'', BWV 199]], with [[Antonio Janigro]] and the Angelicum Orchestra of Milan for Ricordi.<ref name="BCW" />

=== Later life ===
Rinaldi retired from the stage in 1981.<ref name="Connessi" /> She lived outside Florence where she privately coached young singers.<ref name="Connessi" />
Rinaldi retired from the stage in 1981.<ref name="Connessi" /> She lived outside Florence where she privately coached young singers.<ref name="Connessi" />


Rinaldi died in [[Impruneta]] on 7 September 2023, at age 88.<ref name="Connessi" />
Rinaldi died in [[Impruneta]] on 7 September 2023, at age 88.<ref name="Fondazione Arena" /><ref name="Connessi" /><ref name="Salazar" /><ref name="Wackenberger" />


==References==
==References==
{{reflist
{{reflist
| refs =
| refs =

<ref name="Salazar">{{cite web
| last = Salazar
| first = Francisco
| url = https://operawire.com/obituary-italian-soprano-margherita-rinaldi-dies-at-88/
| title = Obituary: Italian Soprano Margherita Rinaldi Dies at 88
| website = operawire.com
| date = 11 September 2023
| access-date = 12 September 2023
}}</ref>

<ref name="Wackenberger">{{cite magazine
| last = Wackenberger
| first = Stefano
| url = http://www.weeklymagazine.it/2023/09/10/lutto-nella-lirica-scompare-il-soprano-margherita-rinaldi/
| title = Lutto nella lirica, scompare il soprano Margherita Rinaldi
| website = weeklymagazine.it
| date = 10 September 2023
| language = it
| access-date = 12 September 2023
}}</ref>

<ref name="BCW">{{cite web
| url = https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Janigro.htm
| title = Antonio Janigro / Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
| website = Bach Cantatas Website
| date = 2006
| access-date = 12 September 2023
}}</ref>

<ref name="Bregenz">{{cite web
| url = https://chronik.bregenzerfestspiele.com/saison-1967/die-heimliche-ehe
| title = Die heimliche Ehe
| website = Bregenz Festival
| date = 2023
| language = de
| access-date = 12 September 2023
}}</ref>


<ref name="Connessi">{{cite web
<ref name="Connessi">{{cite web
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| website = connessiallopera.it
| website = connessiallopera.it
| date = 8 September 2023
| date = 8 September 2023
| language = it
| access-date = 12 September 2023
}}</ref>

<ref name="Fondazione Arena">{{cite web
| url = https://tgverona.telenuovo.it/attualita/2023/09/08/fondazione-arena-ricorda-margherita-rinaldi
| title = Fondazione Arena ricorda Margherita Rinaldi
| website = tgverona.telenuovo.it
| date = 9 September 2023
| language = it
| language = it
| access-date = 12 September 2023
| access-date = 12 September 2023
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
* Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), ''Guide de l’opéra'', Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995). {{ISBN|2-213-59567-4}}
* Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), ''Guide de l'opéra'', Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995). {{ISBN|2-213-59567-4}}


== External links ==
== External links ==

Latest revision as of 12:11, 14 September 2023

Margherita Rinaldi
Rinaldi in Radiocorriere magazine, 1971
Born(1935-01-12)12 January 1935
Turin, Italy
Died7 September 2023(2023-09-07) (aged 88)
Florence, Italy
OccupationLyric soprano
OrganizationsLa Scala

Margherita Rinaldi (12 January 1935 – 7 September 2023) was an Italian lyric soprano, primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s, after she made her debut as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1958, prompting her career at La Scala in Milan. She also appeared internationally, performing a wide repertoire including, besides Italian belcanto roles, Baroque and French opera. She recorded the roles of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto and Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo. From 1981, she worked as a voice teacher.

Life and career

[edit]

Margherita Rinaldi was born in Turin on 12 January 1935,[1] and completed her music studies in Rovigo.[2] She won the Belli voice competition of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, appearing there in 1958 in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.[2] The success prompted her debut at La Scala in Milan the following year as Sinaide in Rossini's Mosè in Egitto.[3] She first performed at the Arena di Verona in 1962, as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, alongside Leyla Gencer, Carlo Bergonzi, and conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni. She performed at the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona as Amelia in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in 1979, alongside Renato Bruson in the title role, directed by Filippo Crivelli [it] and conducted by Roberto Abbado.[1]

Rinaldi appeared at La Scala as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Nannetta in Falstaff,[4] in 1966 as Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, alongside Giacomo Aragall and Luciano Pavarotti, when Claudio Abbado conducted a new critical edition, and as Linda in a revival of Linda di Chamounix in 1972, alongside Alfredo Kraus.[3] She sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy, in roles such as Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula, Donizetti's Adina in L'elisir d'amore and Norina in Don Pasquale, and Verdi's Gilda. She also excelled in operas by Mozart and by Cimarosa.[4]

She sang a wide variety of roles for RAI between 1963 and 1975, such as Bertha in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, Handel's Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and Ginevra in Ariodante, and Noraime in Cherubini's Les Abencérages.[3] She recorded Verdi's La traviata with Pavarotti in Dublin in 1964.[4]

In 1977 she had a triumph singing Amenaide in Rossini's Tancredi alongside Marilyn Horne at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Reviewers noted then the limpid quality and agility of her voice, and her stylistic security.[2] Angelo Sguerzi wrote for Stirpi canore about her "homogeneity of timbre, equality of registers, smooth and clear extension up to E-flat on the top, gentle, demure phrasing, without melodramaticism of dubious taste".[2]

In 1978, Rinaldi appeared as Adalgisa in a production of Bellini's Norma at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. Conducted by Riccardo Muti and starring Renata Scotto in the title role, she performed the role in the original soprano register.[3]

International career

[edit]

Rinaldi enjoyed a successful international career, making her American debut at the Dallas Opera as Gilda in 1966. Her debut at the San Francisco Opera was as Lucia in 1968. She also sang at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Rinaldi performed at the Glyndebourne, Wexford and Bregenz festivals.[4] In Bregenz, she appeared in 1967 as Carolina in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto directed by Crivelli, with the Vienna Symphony conducted by Vittorio Gui.[5] She appeared as Ines in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine at the Royal Opera House in London, alongside Plácido Domingo and Grace Bumbry.[3]

Opera recordings

[edit]

Rinaldi made only two commercial opera recordings, as Gilda in Rigoletto opposite Rolando Panerai and Franco Bonisolli, which was also the soundtrack of a German television production, and as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo with Sir Colin Davis conducting.[2] Luckily, unofficial "pirate" recordings have preserved several of her live performances: the Spoleto Lucia di Lammermoor, the Scala I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Linda di Chamounix, the RAI Le Prophète, a 1967 Rigoletto from Turin, and the 1978 Norma from Florence.[3]

Concert

[edit]

Rinaldi was an excellent performer of sacred music; she often sang with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.[2] She performed the part of Maria Maddalena in Lorenzo Perosi's oratorio La Resurrezione di Cristo in 1969, and was the soprano soloist in both Handel's Messiah in 1970, conducted by Bertola, and in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1981.[1] She performed at La Scala in Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, and for RAI TV in Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore. She recorded Carissimi's Dives malus with Angelo Ephrikian, and took part in the first recording of Rossini's Messa di Gloria in 1974.[3] She recorded two Bach cantatas, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199, with Antonio Janigro and the Angelicum Orchestra of Milan for Ricordi.[6]

Later life

[edit]

Rinaldi retired from the stage in 1981.[2] She lived outside Florence where she privately coached young singers.[2]

Rinaldi died in Impruneta on 7 September 2023, at age 88.[1][2][4][3]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d "Fondazione Arena ricorda Margherita Rinaldi". tgverona.telenuovo.it (in Italian). 9 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Addio al soprano Margherita Rinaldi. Aveva 88 anni". connessiallopera.it (in Italian). 8 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Wackenberger, Stefano (10 September 2023). "Lutto nella lirica, scompare il soprano Margherita Rinaldi". weeklymagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e Salazar, Francisco (11 September 2023). "Obituary: Italian Soprano Margherita Rinaldi Dies at 88". operawire.com. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Die heimliche Ehe". Bregenz Festival (in German). 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Antonio Janigro / Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works". Bach Cantatas Website. 2006. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

Further reading

[edit]
  • Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), Guide de l'opéra, Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995). ISBN 2-213-59567-4
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