Catherine malfitano biography

Catherine Malfitano is an American operatic soprano and opera director.
Catherine Malfitano, Singer, Actor, Director, and Teacher, was born in New York City to a dancer/actress mother and violinist father.
Catherine Malfitano was born on April 18, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of.

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Catherine Malfitano

American opera singer

Catherine Malfitano (born April 18, 1948) is an American operaticsoprano and opera director. Malfitano was born in New York City, the daughter of a ballet dancer mother, Maria Maslova, and a violinist father, Joseph Malfitano. She attended the High School of Music and Art and studied at the Frank Corsaro Studio and Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 1971.

Operatic career

Malfitano made her professional singing debut in 1972 at the Central City Opera in the role of Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff. She soon appeared with Minnesota Opera, where she sang in the world premiere of Conrad Susa's Transformations and, in 1974 at the New York City Opera, in Puccini's La bohème, as Mimi. She then appeared with the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1975) and at the Royal Opera House (1976) and in other major European opera houses. She performed in 1974 as Susanna in a new production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Holland Festival, and in 1976 as Servilia in a new production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Salzburg F

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Malfitano, Catherine

Opera singer

American soprano Catherine Malfitano is one of opera's most daring stars. Indelibly associated with a stirring, vixenish performance in Richard Strauss's Salome in the 1990s, Malfitano has made a career of choosing dramatic, highly charged roles, and critics and fans alike have commented on her mesmerizing stage presence. She once appeared in a historic live telecast from Rome of the Puccini classic Tosca that was one of the most-watched opera performances ever broadcast, and in 2003 she performed in an opera marathon of three works with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Despite the warnings of some detractors that she could ruin her voice mid-career, Malfitano asserts she has instead grown into the more challenging roles she has taken on. "The voice changes, you know," she told the San Francisco Chronicle 's Octavio Roca. "The instrument just knows what it wants to do, what it has to do. It's a journey, and you are the only one responsible for it, so you may as well decide to just do it. Life is just too short to worry. I think th

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The American soprano, opera director and music teacher, Catherine Malfitano, was born in New York City, the daughter of a ballet dancer mother, Maria Maslova, and a violinist father, Joseph Malfitano. She attended the High School of Music and Art and studied at the Frank Corsaro Studio and Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 1971. She often mentions that she was rejected from The Juilliard School.

Catherine Malfitano made her professional singing debut in 1972 at the Central City Opera playing the role of Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff. She soon appeared with Minnesota Opera, where she sang in the world premiere of Conrad Susa's Transformations and, in 1974 at New York City Opera, in La bohème, as Mimi. She then appeared with the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1975) and at the Royal Opera House (1976) and in other major European opera houses 1974 Susanna in a new production of W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at The Holland Festival, 1976 Servilia in a new production of W.A. Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at The Salzburg Festibal. In 1978, Malfitano achieved wider re