The Siola d'oro ("Golden Swallow") is a biennial opera prize awarded in
Gatteo
Gatteo ( rgn, Gatì) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about southeast of Forlì. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,252 and ...
since 1983, in memory of
Lina Pagliughi
Lina Pagliughi (27 May 1907 – 2 October 1980) was an Italian-American opera singer. Based in Italy for the majority of her career, she made a number of recordings and established herself as one of the world's finest lyric coloratura sopranos of ...
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[Opera - Volume 48, Issues 7-12 - Page 107 1997 "The young soprano Patrizia Ciofi, who this year won the biennial prize of the 'Siola d'oro' awarded in memory of Lina Pagliughi, was fully equal to the daunting demands of the title role, and she produced some beautiful soft singing, supported ..."]
The award has been given to:
Luciana Serra
Luciana Serra (born 4 November 1946, in Genoa) is an Italian coloratura soprano.
Career
Serra made her international debut in 1966 as Eleonora in Cimarosa's ' at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, but did not achieve general acclaim u ...
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June Anderson
June Anderson (born December 30, 1952) is a Grammy Award-winning American coloratura soprano. She is known for ''bel canto'' performances of Rossini, Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini.
Subsequently, she has extended her repertoire to include a wid ...
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Mariella Devia
Mariella Devia (born 12 April 1948) is an Italian operatic soprano. After beginning her career as a lyric coloratura soprano, in the finale part of it she also enjoyed considerable success with some of the most dramatic roles in the bel canto ...
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Denia Mazzola
Denia Mazzola - Gavazzeni (born 4 February 1953) is an Italian operatic soprano. In 1991 she married Gianandrea Gavazzeni (1909–1996) a famous conductor, 44 years older. She had the peak of her career between the years 1982 and 2015 when she d ...
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Enedina Lloris,
Sumi Jo,
Valeria Esposito,
Patrizia Ciofi (1997),
Jessica Pratt (soprano)
Jessica Pratt (born 20 June 1979) is an English-born Australian operatic soprano. Born in Bristol, she has lived in Australia since 1991 and is the daughter of a tenor. She began by studying the trumpet for ten years before concentrating her st ...
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Elizabeth Vidal,
Stefania Bonfadelli
Stefania Bonfadelli (born 1967) is an Italian operatic soprano.
She began studying pianoforte at eight years of age and singing at fourteen in Verona, and later continued these studies in Paris and Vienna. Her operatic debut was with ''I puritani ...
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Annick Massis
Annick Massis (born Jacqueline Dubreuil; ; born 31 January 1958) is a French operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known for her interpretation of works in the 19th-century Italian and French repertoire.
Biography
Jacq ...
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Elena Mosuc,
Pretty Yende
Pretty Yende (born 6 March 1985) is a South African operatic soprano. She has performed leading roles at opera houses internationally, including La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera.
Early life and education
Born in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, Yen ...
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References
External links
Association of the Siola d'Oro
Classical music awards
European music awards
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