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BIOGRAPHY
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Australian born, soprano Angela Denning grew up in Sydney and graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, majoring in piano and voice. She began her career at the Sydney Opera House as a principle soprano in the lyric coloratura repertoire.

In 1983 she moved to UK where she sang with the English National Opera at the London Colosseum and for the Kent Opera. In the same year Angela won the second prize in the prestigious Belvedere Opera Competition in Vienna, singing the 'mad scene' from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor". As a result of her win Angela was invited to join the ensemble of the Deutche Oper Berlin.

                                             

     From 1984 until 1993 Angela was a principle soloist of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and continued vocal studies 
with Iris Adami Coradetti in Padova.

While engaged in Berlin, Angela sang the following roles at the Deutsche Oper:

                            

                            Schwertengel - Der Messias - Première - director Achim Freyer - conductor Christopher Hogwood 

As a musician, there can certainly be no greater compliment than that made by the legendary concert pianist Horowitz during his very last concert tour in Berlin, after attending a performance of ‘Cosi fan Tutte’ at the Deutsche Oper with Angela as Fiordiligi: “That’s the most musical Fiordiligi I’ve ever heard!!!…”

As an actress and dramatic interpreter, Angela lives her roles. One audience member was heard to remark: 
”It’s as if she really is the part…rather than acting it! …..sends chills down my spine!”

Over the years, Angela’s voice has followed an almost ‘miraculous,’ ever-changing path - continually growing in power and maturity, while always retaining its beauty and purity. This God-given phenomenon has enabled her to progress through an extremely broad spectrum of operatic repertoire, ranging from Violetta and Lucia, to her more recent roles of Abigaille and Turandot. Because of the unusual versatility, unique beauty of timbre, and an incredible natural vocal technique, she has also been able to combine the vocal power necessary for the large opera stages, with the subtle delicacy required for the concert platform.

Current Operatic Repertoire includes: 

Angela has made innumerable guest appearances in opera theatres throughout Europe.

Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin,      Grand Theatre Bordeaux,      Opera Bilbao,      Opera Theatre Lubiana,  

Opera Theatre Zagreb,      Salzburger Festspiele,      Gärtnerplatz Theater, München,     Baden Sommer Festpiele,      Opernhaus Linz, 

Theater St. Pölten,     Theater Bremen,    Vogtland Theater, Plauen,     Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden,      Stadthalle Aschaffenburg,  

Festhalle Zweibrücken,     Opera Colorado, Denver, USA,     Staatsoper Wien,      Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf.

Her roles have encompassed a unique breadth of styles and repertoire.

Fiordiligi      Donna Elvira     Constanze     Pamina       Lucia di Lammermoor     Clorinda  (Cenerentola)     Anna Elisa (Paganini)  

Graefin Mariza      Marguerite (Faust)      Violetta        Madama Butterfly       Leonora (Forza del Destino)      Donna Anna      Abigaille     Turandot

Concert Engagements, TV and Radio Broadcasts:

                              

                              Verdi Opera Gala, Castello Valenzano, Italy

                              Puccini Opera Gala, Sarteano, Italy

                              Sydney Opera House Concert Hall - Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Messiah, Carmina Burana, The Creation, and Mainly Mozart Series

                              Recitals for ABC Radio, Sydney   - Lieder by Wolf, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms

                                                                                             - Chansons by Duparc, Debussy and Faure

                                                                                             - Mozart Concert Arias

                              Opera Gala Concert for ABC-TV, Sydney  

                              Opera Gala Concert for ABC, Perth with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra

                              Göttingen Festspiele - Samson - Händel

                              Radio France Paris - Carmina Burana, Mozart concert arias - cond. Christian Badea)

                              RIAS Berlin - Verdi Opera Gala - cond. Silvio Varviso 

                              Berlin Philarmonie - Beethoven Missa Solemnis,  9th Symphony

                              “Romantic Salon” -  recital tour throughout Italy, France and UK

Disc:

Highlights of French Opera - cond. Richard Bonynge

Arias by Arriaga - cond. Jesus Lopez Cobos

Video / DVD:

Cenerentola - Salzburger Festspiel

Les Hugenots - Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Email: denning.angela_soprano@yahoo.com



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