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Alessandra Visentin

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One of the most fascinating voices on today's opera and concert stages, acclaimed by critics especially for the rarity of her voice type.
In november 2022 The Italian Academy Foundation recognized her as one of the top level italian artist, one of the most outstanding exponents of Italianita and of the classical artistry of the contralto.

Alessandra Visentin has appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, among them the Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Carnegie Hall New York, Musikverein Wien, Auditorium Nacional de Musica Madrid, Halle aux Grains Touluse, Grand Warner Brothers Theatre (USA), Théâtre des Champs-Elysées de Paris, Opera Royal de Versailles, Salzburg Festival, Theater Basel, Brucknerhaus Linz, Ravenna Festival, Festival Anima Mundi, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Florence, Festival of Macerata, Teatro Luciano Pavarotti Modena, Opera de Reims, Festival Opera Rara and Misteria Paschalia Krakow, Umbria Musicfest, and the Performing Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea.

Ms. Visentin has worked with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Franz Welser Most, Ken David Masur, Juraj Valcuha, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Gabriele Ferro, Riccardo Frizza, Gianluca Martinenghi, Andrea Marcon, Christopher Hogwood, Marc Minkowski, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Ottavio Dantone, Federico Maria Sardelli, Claudio Scimone and with stage directors such as Robert Carsen, Ferzan Ozpetek, David Poutney, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Hugo de Ana, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Emilio Sagi, Alessio Pizzech, Massimo Gasparon, Christian Schiaretti, Pierfrancesco Maestrini, and Alessandra Panzavolta.

In 2022 she made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City with the Chamber Orchestra of New York performing selected aria's by Handel and at the Grand Warner Bros. Theatre under the baton of Ken-David Masur singing Messiah by Handel.
Recently she signed an agreement with CONY ad Naxos Records of America for the release of a new album recording Songs by Respighi.

Recent operatic highlights feature Visentin in Manon Lescaut at Teatro Alla Scala (Riccardo Chailly conducting)and in Madama Butterfly at Teatro San Carlo (staged by Ferzan Özpetek). 
Previous seasons featured Ms. Visentin in The Girl of the Golden West at Teatro San Carlo in Naples as well as performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Dixit Dominus at Teatro Manzoni conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli. She made her debut with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre at the Musikverein in Wien, the Palau de la Musica in Madrid, the Salle de la Halle aux Grains in Touluse, and the Brucknerhaus in Linz. She also performed in Basel for Juditha Triumphans under the baton of Andrea Marcon and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Pistoia.
She made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West under the direction of Riccardo Chailly, staged by Robert Carsen, and recorded by Decca Classics. 
In the past seasons she has sung to great acclaim in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Opera Royal de Versailles and at the Opera de Reims under the direction of Jean Claude Malgoire; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Festival Anima Mundi and at the Umbrian Music Festival under the direction of Zubin Mehta; and in Paisiello’s Mass Defunctorum at the Salzburg Festival, the Ravenna Festival, and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
Ms. Visentin sang at the Performing Arts Center in Seoul in Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans, staged by Pierluigi Pizzi and Massimo Gasparon. At the Umbria Musicfest she performed Dvorak's Stabat Mater and during the same season sang in ll Sequestro by A. Garcia Demestres and in Manon Lescaut (Musician) at the Teatro Luciano Pavarotti in Modena. At the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro alla Scala, she starred Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring.

Alessandra Visentin studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music and the Claudio Abbado Civic School of Music in Milan as well as at the A. Pedrollo Conservatory of Vicenza. A pupil of contraltos Bernadette Manca di Nissa and Sara Mingardo she studied with Bob Kettelson and Regina Resnik.
The past year has seen the release of two acclaimed new recordings:Heinichen’s Flavio Crispo, with Il Gusto Barocco conducted by Jörg Halubek; and a Vivaldi album, “per la Sig’ra Geltruda”, motets and a Stabat Mater by the Red Priest with Ensemble Locatelli, led by Luca Oberti.
She is the winner of several international competitions, among them the Premio Internazionale  Città di Bologna and the Conegliano Competition for vocal chamber music (special prize in duo with Giorgio Dal Monte). Alessandra Visentin won the European Community Voice Competition at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino's Academy for young singers. This led to an engagement in Florence for two seasons in which she sang in Rossini's Viaggio a Reims, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, and Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild ThingsAre.

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Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of AmericaStabat Mater, RV 621: I. Stabat mater dolorosa · Alessandra VisentinVivaldi: Motets & Stabat Mater, RV 621℗ 2020 Pan C...

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Stabat Mater Vivaldi

A. Vivaldi Juditha TriumphansVeni, Veni me sequere fidaAlessandra Visentin, contraltoFrancesco Spendolini, chalumeauBaroque Ensemble I Pizzicanti, Basel Swit...

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