Italian opera star Stefania Donzelli is guest artist/teacher
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All of Ms. Donzelli’s events are open to SUNY Fredonia students, faculty, staff and the general public. Tickets for the master classes are $2 per class. The recital is $4 for students and $6 for general admission. A special package, which includes both master classes and the recital, is available for $8. For tickets to any of these events, go to www.fredonia.edu/tickets, call 1-866-441-4928 (or 716-673-3501), or visit the ticket office in the Williams Center on the SUNY Fredonia campus. |
In addition, Ms. Donzelli will be giving a performance on Sunday, Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. in Rosh Recital Hall. Titled, “An Evening of Italian Arias and Songs,” she will be assisted by various School of Music faculty members.
Ms. Donzelli’s visit is sponsored by the Student Opera Theatre Association (S.O.T.A.) and is a further step in the continuing Lyric Arts International exchange program with Italy, where 11 SUNY Fredonia students and two faculty members toured, studied and performed this past May. Fredonia’s students were introduced to Ms. Donzelli during their 10-day performance trip this spring.
“Stefania is a young, extremely talented, and brilliant lyric soprano,” said Ben Pfiel, vice president of S.O.T.A. who studied with Donzelli at the Fermo Conservatory while in Italy. “We were so lucky to meet with her while in Italy. She is very generous with her time and insisted on working with each of the 11 students in the group, inviting us to come back to the conservatory the very next day.”
The program for the recital includes the famous arias of Verdi and Rossini, including “Ah, fors'e lui and Sempre libera,” from La Traviata, and “Una voce poco fa,” from The Barber of Seville, as well as famous songs of Rossini, “La Tarantella” and “La Promessa.” She will be joined by Fredonia Voice Faculty members Daniel Ihasz and Joe Dan Harper in duets from Donizetti's Don Pasquale. The recital will conclude with the buoyant "Libiamo", also from Verdi's La Traviata, in which Ms. Donzelli will be joined by students of the Opera Seminar class of the Fredonia School of Music.
“Stefania is being very generous to our campus, not only holding private lessons with our students during her stay, but also performing with our Faculty despite the limited rehearsal time,” said Julie Newell, Professor of Voice and Director of Lyric Arts International.
Ms. Donzelli is a lyric soprano who studied song with Patricia Brown of the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, graduating with highest honors in 1990. She then went on to win prizes in the international arena including the first prize for the Monte di Treviso, Viottie di Vercelli, the Pavarotti of Philadelphia and Belli di Spoleto. Stefania then moved on to a career working with many international orchestral directors including Bychkov, Di Stefano, and Abbado, among others.
Ms. Donzelli has a repertoire of more than 500 vocal pieces of music in Italian, German, Frenchman and Spanish. She performs continually for musical associations in Italy and internationally. A particular highlight of her work is her upcoming tour with Andrea Bocelli, a tremendously popular Italian operatic pop tenor and a classical crossover singer who has also performed in operas.
All of Ms. Donzelli’s events are open to SUNY Fredonia students, faculty, staff and the general public. Tickets for the master classes are $2 per class. The recital is $4 for students and $6 for general admission. A special package, which includes both master classes and the recital, is available for $8.
For tickets to any of these events, go to www.fredonia.edu/tickets, call 1-866-441-4928 (or 716-673-3501), or visit the ticket office in the Williams Center on the SUNY Fredonia campus.
