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Fumiko Ando - `appresso ` - Japan CD

Fumiko Ando - `appresso ` - Japan CD

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October 24, 2014

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Catalog No.: OVCL-00549

JAN/ISBN: 4526977005498

Number of Discs: 1

Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan

Credits:

Fumiko Ando

Description:

A comet of exceptional brilliance: the long-awaited first solo album from Fumiko Ando. The debut solo album by Fumiko Ando, a soprano widely expected to take a central place in Japan's vocal world. Secure technique, ample tone and rich musicianship carry her across a wide span of periods and languages, from Handel to Kósçak Yamada, taking in Italian, German, Czech, Russian and Japanese song. A confident recital of favourites, gathering the pieces that have accompanied Ando as she has broadened her career, each of them sung with genuine personal attachment. Born in Sapporo. She completed the graduate course in voice (opera) at Kunitachi College of Music and the third intake of the New National Theatre Tokyo Opera Studio. After studying in Italy as an Agency for Cultural Affairs overseas study fellow, she returned to Italy as an overseas research student of the Rohm Music Foundation. Her teachers include Paola Molinari, Sergio Bertocchi and Hisako Tanaka. She made her debut as Fiordiligi in the Kunitachi College graduate school's production of Così fan tutte. Her Musetta in La Bohème for Tokyo Nikikai in February 2006 won wide acclaim, and in 2007 she gave a fine account of Chloë in The Queen of Spades under Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto. In February 2009 she was chosen for Violetta in Tokyo Nikikai's new production of La traviata staged by Amon Miyamoto, where her varied, finely detailed expression and dignified singing marked her out as a future prima donna. She has since appeared, always to great success, as Micaëla in the Yutaka Sado-produced Carmen in June and July of that year (directed by Jean-Louis Martinoty); as Cio-Cio-San in the Japan-Korea-Italy co-production of Madama Butterfly at the Sejong Center Grand Theater in May 2011 (conducted by Rigon, directed by Mattia); as the First Wood Nymph in Rusalka at the New National Theatre in November 2011; as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser in the 2012 co-production of Biwako Hall and Kanagawa Kenmin Hall; as Violetta in La traviata in the same production in March 2013 (a co-presentation with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy); as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the New National Theatre in April 2013; as Anna in Nabucco at the New National Theatre in June 2013; in the title role of Madama Butterfly in the Aichi Triennale-produced opera in September 2013; and as Elisabetta in Don Carlo for Tokyo Nikikai in February 2014. In October 2013 she appeared with Riccardo Muti in a special concert of the Spring Festival in Tokyo marking the bicentenary of Verdi's birth, and she has sung arias from La traviata on NHK's Meikyoku Album, confirming the high expectations placed on her as a soprano of the coming generation. Octavia Records

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