Anna Caterina Antonacci

Embracing both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles, Anna Caterina’s extraordinary vocal timbre and great acting skills have enabled her to perform many works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries including Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Gluck, Paisiello and Mozart. An acclaimed interpreter of Rossini, she has sung both buffo and serio roles, and has had equal success with Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, Massenet, and Stravinsky.

Since the 2003/04 season, she has concentrated on the dramatic soprano repertory and scored notable personal successes as Cassandre in Les Troyens with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Elettra in Idomeneo for the Netherlands Opera and the Maggio Musicale in Florence. Her engagements have included L'incoronazione di Poppea with Rene Jacobs at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Palais Garnier in Paris, Alceste in Parma and at the Salzburg Festival, Medea in Toulouse and the Châtelet Paris and La Clemenza di Tito at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva and the Palais Garnier Opera de Paris. In 2006, she gave recitals in homage to Pauline Viardot at the Châtelet in Paris and the Wigmore Hall in London and sang the Les nuits d’été of Berlioz with Sir Colin Davis at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

Anna Caterina made her début in a new production of Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with Antonio Pappano in 2006 [Click HERE for highlights from Carmen]. She sang Berlioz’s Cléopâtre with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at La Scala, Les nuits d’été in Parma, Munich and Ferrara, Italy, Les Troyens at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine in Tanglewood and La Damnation de Faust at the Marseille Opera. She also appeared as Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda at La Scala, Alice Ford in Falstaff at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Medea at the Teatro Regio Turin and Carmen at the Opera Comique conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Recently, she has also sung La mort de Cléopâtre with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Further engagements include Carmen in Luxembourg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen and at the Liceu, Cassandra in Les Troyens at the Royal Opera House, London and at La Scala, Milan conducted by Antonio Pappano, Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, a revival of Falstaff at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées conducted by Maestro Gatti, Vita by Marco Tutino at the Teatro Regio, Turin, Alceste in Athens and La Damnation de Faust with the Orchestre du Capitole in Toulouse.

Anna Caterina will also continue to give concerts of her one woman show Era la Notte and Altre stelle; a collection of Baroque arias; and a solo recital tour including composers such as Hahn, Tosti, Toscanini, Bachelet, Tirinidelli and Respighi among others, accompanied by Donald Sulzen at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Cologne Opera, Opera du Rhin, Opera Comique, and at the Auyntamiento de Telde.

She has also been awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur by the French Republic, which is the highest national distinction one can receive.

She now records for the Naïve label and her first recording of Era la Notte has received great acclaim.