Anna Pirozzi is included in Operawire’s top 11 singers of 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2264Earlier this year, Anna Pirozzi was nominated for Best Female Singer of the Year at the Opera Awards and you could see why this great Italian soprano stood out among so many other singers. Her agility to cross from the verismo to the bel canto to the Verdi repertoire is unique and special and she remains among the only sopranos today who can do that, combining vocal beauty with dramatic force in equal measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her last-minute Leonora in \u201cLa Forza del Destino\u201d at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, which audiences got to see worldwide through OperaVision, was \u201cspellbinding<\/a>\u201d with the soprano \u201cbringing depth and fire to every note.\u201d Then there was her Amelia in \u201cUn Ballo in Maschera\u201d at the Palau de les Arts and Gran Teatre del Liceu where she showcased<\/a> \u201can impressive breath control and deep feeling\u201d and \u201cshe injected the words with meaning, singing her \u2018morr\u00f2\u2019 with such genuine sadness.\u201d That was also shown worldwide on a live stream from Valencia, giving audiences a chance to relive that unforgettable performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pirozzi also displayed a range of repertoire this year with her Norma in Napoli, her role debut as Adriana Lecouvreur at the Paris Opera, and Odabella in Tokyo. There was Turandot in Torre del Lago and Zurich, Maddalena in \u201cAndrea Chenier\u201d in France, Aida at the Arena di Verona, \u201cMadama Butterfly\u201d in Tirana, and Abigaille in \u201cNabucco\u201d in Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then there was \u201cLa Gioconda\u201d to conclude a monster year at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania. For that role she received praise with critics stating \u201cExcellent Anna<\/a> Pirozzi, she plays a well moulded Gioconda, between sensitivity and volition \u2013 to the point of sacrifice \u2013 throughout the opera, with an emotional peak in the warmly applauded last act scene.\u2265
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