Daniela Dessì Movies and Career Information

Daniela Dessì Born May 14, 1957, in Genoa, Italy is an Italian lirico-spinto soprano. Daniela Dessì completed her singing studies at the Conservatory of Parma and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena. After having won the first prize at the International Competition organized by RAI TV in 1980, she had her debut with the comic opera La serva padrona by Pergolesi. Her international career has taken her to the best Opera theatres, singing under the direction of the greatest orchestra conductors, such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, James Levine and others. Her season 2008-2009 began with Tosca in Florence (where she gave an encore of "Vissi d'arte" - it has been 52 years since this happened to Renata Tebaldi), then at the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo, La fanciulla del West in Seville, Manon Lescaut in Warsaw, Madama Butterfly in Hanover and Aida in Verona and Cagliari, and she closes the season in Barcelona (Turandot); in January 2009 she opened the season of recital at La Scala.