ILARIA SACCHI
mezzosoprano
Born in Bologna, her innate passion for theatre brings her to begin very young
studying classical dance and music (piano), then contemporary dance, coreography and acting. Graduated in foreign languages, she starts studying opera.
Ilaria Sacchi makes her debut in opera in Milan in 1998 at Rosetum Theatre with Giordano's Fedora (Dimitri) and Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.
Her great vocal extension and extraordinarily particular colour, jointed to her musical and acting intelligence give her opportunities to perform first Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) and then the oneact farce La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Clarina), this last being directed in 2000 by Claudio Desderi at Teatro Borgatti in Cento (Ferrara).
She performs in Milan the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and makes her debut as Flora in La Traviata at Villa Pallavicino in Busseto (Parma) with winners of the Singing International Competition "Voci Verdiane"of Busseto, under the baton of Manlio Benzi. She plays the same role, then, at Teatro Bonci in Cesena and in Siena with Angela Gheorghiu and Alberto Gazale directed by Romano Gandolfi.
In these last years she is acclaimed performer of the title role in Bizet's Carmen, staged in beautiful villas in Rome by italians and foreign productions.
During her concerts she loves exhibiting her various and original repertoire.
For the "Centenario Verdiano" Celebration, in 2001, she takes part to a Gala Concert in Milan directed by Giampaolo M. Bisanti where she gives an intense performance of the Princess of Eboli singing the aria "O don fatale".
In 2003 she partecipates at International Music Festivals in Ljubliana (Slovenia) and Santander (Spain) with Luis Bacalov's sacred opera Misa Tango.
In May 2005, in Conegliano (Treviso), she takes part at "Festival della Romanza da Salotto" Inauguration Concert singing songs of the nineteenth century written on poetical works by italitan poetess Ada Negri. In October she proposes in Bologna the récital "Le Eroine della Mitologia Classica" with an original program containing arias of peculiar musical interest as the melancholy aria "Adieu, fière cité" from Berlioz's Les Troyens, a dramatic "declamato" from the opera Fedra by Pizzetti, the scene of Circe from Dallapiccola's Ulisse and the celebrated aria "When I am laid in Earth" from Purcell's Dido and AEneas.
Not less various is this versatile artist's Sacred Music repertoire; it embraces music from Vivaldi to Saint-Saens, but her button-hole work is Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle interpreted first in 1999 at "Auditorium di Milano", under the baton of Romano Gandolfi and subsequently performed in numerous other cities such as Pavia, Pesaro, Cremona, Senigallia, Valencia (Spain).
Other sacred operas in her repertoire, most of which already performed: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Mozart's Requiem KV 626, Missa brevis KV 220, Vesperae solennes de confessore KV 339,Krönungsmesse in C major KV 317, Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Saint-Saens's Oratorio de Noel, Boccherini's Stabat Mater, Vivaldi's Gloria, Magnificat, Nisi Dominus and Stabat Mater RV 621, this last being performed in 2004 directed by Alberto Meoli for the Rassegna “40 Concerti nel Giorno del Signore” in co-operation with Rome Diocese.