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Mirella
Given name Mirella is a feminine given name which may refer to: *Mirella Amato, bilingual beer consultant, beer sommelier and author in Toronto, Ontario, Canada *Mirella Arnhold (born 1983), Brazilian alpine skier *Mirella Avalle (born 1922), Italian sprinter *Mirella Bentivoglio (1922–2017), Italian sculptor, poet, performance artist and curator *Mirella Cesa (born 1984), Ecuadorian singer who has won several awards and been called the "mother of Andipop" *Mirella Levi D'Ancona (1919–2014), Italian-born American art historian and professor. *Mirella D'Angelo (born 1956), Italian actress *Mirella Freni (born 1935), Italian soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky * Mirella Gregori (born 1967), a woman who mysteriously disappeared from Rome in May 1983 *Mirella Harju (born 1982), Finnish former racing cyclist *Mirella Latorre (1919–2010), Chilean radio and television actress *Mirella Maniani-Tzelili (born 1976), retired Greek track and field a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni, OMRI (, born Mirella Fregni, 27 February 1935 – 9 February 2020) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a career of 50 years and appeared at major international opera houses. She received international attention at the Glyndebourne Festival, where she appeared as Zerlina in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' and as Adina in Donizetti's ''L'elisir d'amore''. Freni is associated with the role of Mimi in Puccini's ''La bohème'', which featured in her repertoire from 1957 to 1999 and which she sang at La Scala in Milan and the Vienna State Opera in 1963, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. She also performed the role in a film of the production and as her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1965. In the earliest opera DVDs, she portrayed her characters convincingly in both acting and singing. Freni was married for many years to the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, with whom she performed and recorded. Her obituary from ''The New York Times'' describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Bentivoglio
Mirella Bentivoglio (28 March 1922 – 23 March 2017) was an Italian sculptor, poet, performance artist and curator. In the 1960s she joined the international concrete poetry movement. She participated in exhibitions all over the world, including the Venice Biennale (eight times from 1969 to 2001) and the Museum of Modern Art (1992). Biography Mirella Bentivoglio was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, to Italian parents. Her father, Ernesto Bertarelli, was a scientist and professor at the University of Pavia and an avid collector of books. Mirella grew up in Milan and studied in Italy, Switzerland and England. Although her studies were interrupted by World War II, she continued to expand her knowledge using her father's extensive library. She started her career as a poet when she was very young. She published her first collection of poems, ''Giardino'', in 1943, but she waited until 1968 to publish her second poetry book. This unusually long period between the two publications was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Ricciardi
Mirella Ricciardi (born 14 July 1931), described by one enthusiast as a "renowned creative force" is a Kenyan-born photographer and author. Additionally, in 1962 she appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's film ''L'Eclisse'', playing the part of a woman whose back-story bore some resemblance to her own. Life Mirella Rocco was the middle child and elder daughter of her parents' three recorded children. Mario Rocco (1893-1975), her father, came originally from Naples and is described variously as an Italian cavalry officer who had taken part in the First World War as a pilot, and as an "Italian rancher ho operated3,500 acres near Nairobi". Her mother, Giselle Bunau-Varilla, was a French born sculptress who had once been a pupil of Rodin. Both her parents had been "married for many years" when they set off for Africa at the end of 1928, but "not to each other." The idea, according to one source, was to elope to the Belgian Congo and make their fortune by killing elephants and sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Latorre
Mirella Latorre Blanco (26 March 1919 – 10 June 2010) was a Chilean radio and television actress. Biography The daughter of Mariano Latorre – a famous writer, father of '' criollismo'' in Chile, and National Prize for Literature winner – and Virginia Blanco, Mirella Latorre became famous in the 1940s thanks to radio dramas, fame that was consolidated with her move to television at the beginning of the 1960s. She had two children with her first husband, , the founder of the Chilean Journalists Association. Her second husband was also a journalist, , who died on 11 September 1973 at La Moneda Palace during the coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet against the socialist Salvador Allende. Mirella Latorre had to go into exile; she traveled first to France and then to Cuba, where she worked in television. She presented the program ''Conversando con Mirella Latorre'' on the Tele Rebelde channel from 1976 to 1987. In 1991 she began to travel to Chile, where she was defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Cesa
Mirella Cesa (born December 18, 1984, in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian singer who has won several awards and been called the "mother of Andipop" ( Andean pop music). Early life When Mirella was young, she would visit her aunt who would play music by Armando Manzanero, Leo Dan, Ana Belén, Vikki Carr, among others. She was considered an "old" young person, because she liked to listen to meaningful "grown up" music. She began singing at the gatherings of her friends and family, church, and parties. She then began guitar lessons to supplement her songwriting and singing. One day after graduating from high school, she traveled to Miami to seek musical opportunities. She then met the successful producer Rudy Pérez, and soon after began recording her first album. From among 80 of her own songs, she selected 13 of the best ones, and out of these only 8 made it to the album, as well as songs by Rudy Pérez, Mario Patiño, Ernesto Alejandro Patiño, and Alejando Sabre. Mirella mixes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disappearance Of Mirella Gregori
Mirella Gregori (born 7 October 1967) mysteriously disappeared from Rome on 7 May 1983, about forty days before the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a citizen of Vatican City. Both vanishings are unsolved as of today. International events Both the Gregori and the Orlandi cases led to the Grey Wolves, an extremist Turkish group, claiming to be involved in the abductions and demanding the release of Mehmet Ali Ağca, the assassin who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter's Square on 13 May 1981. According to Mehmet Ali Ağca's autobiography, the two girls' disappearances as well as the disappearance of Soviet journalist Oleg G. Bitov from the Venice Film Festival on 9 September that same year are closely linked. Circumstances of disappearance Gregori left her house after receiving an apparent call from a classmate called "Alessandro", she then told her mother she would meet with the classmate outside and would be back in 10 minutes. That was the last time she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Levi D'Ancona
Mirella Levi D'Ancona (1919–2014) was an Italian-born American professor and art historian. She was professor emeritus at Hunter College (from 1959–1986) in art history. D’Ancona did critical research on iconography of animal, floral and vegetable symbolism on art from the Late Middle Ages period to the Renaissance. Biography Mirella Levi D’Ancona was born on 7 June 1919 in Florence, Italy, the daughter of Flora Aghib (1895–1982) and Ezio Levi D’Ancona (1884–1941). Her grandfather was writer Alessandro d'Ancona. She attended high school at Giambattista Vico State High School in Naples. D’Ancona started her college studies at University of Naples (Università di Napoli), later transferring to University of Florence (Università di Firenze) where she graduated in 1941 with a degree in art history. Mario Salmi was her thesis advisor, and her thesis was focused on Francesco d’Antonio Del Chierico. In 1944, D’Ancona fled to Switzerland with her brothers du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Amato
Mirella Amato is a trilingual beer consultant, beer sommelier, and author based in Toronto, Ontario, a foremost specialist on Beer in Canada. She was the first woman in Canada to become a Certified Cicerone and, in 2012, became the first non-US resident to earn the Master Cicerone® certification. Amato is one of very few judges in the Beer Judge Certification Program in Canada to have reached the National Level of certification. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Ontario Craft Brewers Centre of Excellence Industry Choice Award in Food & Beer Matching Development and in 2018 she was inducted into the Belgian brewers' Guild as an Honorary Knight of the Brewer's Paddle. In 2008, Amato founded Beerology, a company through which she offers craft beer and sensory consulting services. Amato is the co-founder of the Toronto-based cask ale advocacy group Cask!. She is also the founder of the Toronto Chapters of the women-only international beer-appreciation society, Barley's Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Harju
Mirella Harju (born 29 September 1982) is a Finnish former racing cyclist. She won the Finnish national road race title in 2008. References External links * 1982 births Living people Finnish female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) {{Finland-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Avalle
Mirella Avalle (27 May 1922 – 5 September 2012) was an Italian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Avalle died in Villanuova sul Clisi Villanuova sul Clisi (Brescian: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. It is situated on the left bank of the river Chiese, known locally as ''Clisi''. As of 2011 Villanuova sul Clisi had a population of 5,837. Sister c ... on 5 September 2012, at the age of 90. References External links * 1922 births 2012 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Italian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Italy Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian women People from Cremona {{Italy-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella D'Angelo
Mirella D'Angelo (born 16 August 1956) is an Italian actress. Career Mirella D'Angelo has appeared in more than twenty films since 1974 and acted in television and theatre. She has appeared in a number of notable films including Le Guignolo with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Apartment Zero with Colin Firth, Caligula with Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, Dario Argento's Tenebrae and Federico Fellini's City of Women. Filmography Cinema *''Terminal'', directed by Paolo Breccia (1974) *'' A Special Cop in Action'', directed by Marino Girolami (1976) *'' La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa!'', directed by Sergio Sollima (1977) *''Porca società'', directed by Luigi Russo (1978) *'' Il ritorno di Casanova'', directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1978) *''Caligula'', with Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, directed by Tinto Brass (1979) *'' C'est dingue... mais on y va'', directed by Michel Gerard (1979) *''Turi and the Paladins'', directed by Angelo D'Alessandro (1979) *''Lessons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Arnhold
Mirella Arnhold (born 30 May 1983) is a Brazilian alpine skier. She competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t .... References External links * 1983 births Living people Brazilian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Brazil Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from São Paulo {{Brazil-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |