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BIOGRAPHY |
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Donella Del Monaco graduated in Architecture and specialised in operatic singing under her father
Marcello (who ran an International School of operatic singing) and her uncle, the tenor Mario Del Monaco.
Alongside her repertoire as an operatic soprano, she has built a personal artistic career as a
singer-composer-researcher, creating and presenting many musical-theatre works and theme-recitals
drawn from her personal research, including "Le Canzoni da Battello" (Boating Songs) of 18th
Century Venice (also in a theatrical version), "Cabaret Kabarett", a theatrical recital based
around the songs of A. Schoenberg for the Berlin literary cabaret, a personally reworked "Swing&Songs"
dedicated to G. Gershwin, "Chansons Satie", dedicated entirely to Erik Satie and "Folk Songs" by
Luciano Berio, a work whose complexity derives from its multiform use of the voice.
In addition to the above, she researched and performed F. Nietzsche's lieder in 'Les Voyageurs',
a composite theatrical work, at the Espace Cardin in Paris in 1995. The work was performed over
thirty times. She has recently gone back to her research into music in the Veneto, recording the
"Venexia de oro" CD, a Veneto itinerary of songs and texts from the Crusades up to the end of the
last Millenium. The work is the fruit of her research and the arrangement of pieces and language
from Veneto and Venetian culture, in collaboration with the poet Andrea Zanzotto,
with a presentation by Alvise Zorzi. She took it to the Espace Cardin in Paris in 2000 in the
form of a recital and dance with choreography by Pier Paolo Kos. In 2001 she presented her new CD
"Merica Merica", dedicated to the Veneto emigration songs, an arrangement of a genre centred around
the boundaries between ethnic, world and classical music. Indeed, Donella's true passion is her
work on the boundaries between different musical genres. Her first creative work dates back to
1974 with Opusavantra, a progressive group which she founded together with other musicians, and
which combined avant-garde music with various musical genres. The group is quoted in the Gibraltar
Encyclopedia (link) as the "one of the best Italian groups of all time".
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| Donella Del Monaco new CD FRAGMENTS 1975-2002 is out! Click on the photo for a review. |
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