Adrianne Pieczonka; "WESENDONCK LIEDER"; Richard Wagner

Описание: Adrianne Pieczonka---soprano
Brian Zeger---piano
2015
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Gramophone MagazineOctober 2015
[Pieczonka's] soprano retains a bloom that is positively youthful…it would be hard to do better than Pieczonka's radiant performance.
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The Guardian23rd July 2015
There’s an appealing intimacy to this recital disc by Adrianne Pieczonka, who was the best thing about the Royal Opera’s last revival of The Flying Dutchman. Up close, paired with pianist Brian Zeger, the focused sweetness of her soprano sounds as radiant as ever.
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"Adrianne Pieczonka, OC (/ˈeɪdriːən pjɛˈtʃɔːnkə/ AY-dree-ən pyeh-CHAWN-kə; born March 2, 1963) is a Canadian operatic soprano singer.[1]

Life and career
Pieczonka was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and grew up in Burlington, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1985,[2] and from the Opera School of the University of Toronto in 1988.[3] She made her professional stage debut with the Canadian Opera Company in 1988 singing The Female Prisoner in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtensk. She moved to Europe in 1988 and quickly won first prize at the International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands as well as First Prize at the International Singing Competition in La Plaine-sur-Mer, France, also in 1988.

She became a member of the Vienna Volksoper in 1989 where her roles included Countess Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Laura (Der Bettelstudent) and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin). In 1991 she became a member of the Vienna State Opera where her roles included Desdemona (Otello), Antonia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Micaëla (Carmen), Die Tochter (Cardillac), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Countess Almaviva, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), title role in Arabella, Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, and The Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier).

She moved to London, England in 1995, and made her British debut at Glyndebourne as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, returning there for Arabella in 1996. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House as Donna Anna in 2002. Pieczonka moved back to Toronto, Canada in 2005 and performed regularly with the Canadian Opera Company. Her roles over many years have included Mimi (La bohème), Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Leonore (Fidelio), the title role in Tosca, and Amelia (Un ballo in maschera). She was awarded a Dora Award for her outstanding portrayal of Sieglinde in the 2004 production of Die Walküre.

She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2004 as Lisa in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades. At the Met, she has also performed Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Amelia (Simon Boccanegra), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Leonore (Fidelio) and Madame Lidoine (Dialogues des Carmélites).

Pieczonka has performed with the world's leading opera companies for over three decades. Some of these include the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Zurich Opera, Teatro Real, Liceu, Teatro Arriaga, Paris Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Colón, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, along with many others. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2001 singing a concert version of Lohengrin and has since sung Elisabetta, The Marschallin and Leonore at this prestigious festival. She made her Bayreuth Festival debut in 2006, singing Sieglinde in Die Walküre and was hailed by Die Zeit as "The Sieglinde of our time" She returned to Bayreuth to sing Senta in The Flying Dutchman in 2012..


Awards and honour

In March 2007, Pieczonka was invested as an Austrian Kammersängerin.[7] She, along with tenor Michael Schade, are the first two Canadian singers to have had this honour. In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[8] In 2012, she was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[9]

Personal life
She resides in Toronto with her wife, mezzo-soprano Laura Tucker, their kid George (they/them), and their two cats Sadie and Buddy.[12]"; Wikipedia (edited)