歌劇新星 - 澳洲女高音Danielle de Niese 丹妮艾拉．迪．妮絲

Handel : Giulio Cesare, HWV17 – Da Tempeste

以前我總覺得歌劇好難懂，現在慢慢地喜歡聽歌劇，歌喉是人間最溫暖最有個性最原始的樂器，在歌聲中我們感受人間的悲歡離合，感受人複雜的情感，就是不懂他們唱什麽，光聽歌唱家們那優美激昂婉轉動聽的唱腔也足以享受。

1980年出生於澳洲的丹妮艾拉．迪．妮絲，是一位同時流著斯裏蘭卡與荷蘭血液的女高音。童年時期於澳洲贏得多項歌唱比賽獎項之後，即舉家搬到美國洛杉磯，並以15歲之齡於洛杉磯歌劇院首度公開登台演出。她也是紐約大都會歌劇院年輕藝術家工作室（Young Artists Studio）有史以來最年輕的參與者，19歲即在大師李汶的指揮下，在全新製作的莫劄特歌劇《費加洛婚禮》中演唱芭芭琳娜一角，其後更在拉威爾之獨幕歌劇《兒童與魔法師》中擔任主角。受到大都會歌劇院的極度重視，迪．妮絲飾唱的角色也越來越吃重，包括2007年於韓德爾歌劇《凱薩大帝》中演唱第一女主角《埃及豔後克裏歐珮拉》，以及2009年於葛路克歌劇《奧菲歐與尤裏狄奇》演唱女主角尤裏狄奇。同年9至12月更在大都會演唱莫劄特歌劇《費加洛婚禮》中之蘇珊娜一角。

迪．妮絲的聲音有一種清脆明亮的特質，尤其適合演唱巴洛克時期至早期古典樂派的歌劇。在韓德爾歌劇《凱薩大帝》大獲成功之後，2008年她重返英國格蘭登堡歌劇院，並在最新製作的蒙台威爾第歌劇《波佩亞的加冕》中，將集美麗與挑逗性於一身的波佩亞完美表現出來，堪稱一絕（此部歌劇Decca已發行DVD）。除了歌劇，迪．妮絲也參與百老匯舞台劇《悲慘世界》的演出，更於2001年上演之驚悚電影《沉默的羔羊》續集《人魔》（Hannibal）之電影原聲帶中獻唱一曲旋律極為優美的仿古詠歎調“Vide Cor Meum”。

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Danielle de Niese (born April 11, 1979) is an Australian -born lyric soprano now residing in the United States , of Sri Lankan and Dutch heritage.

After winning a number of singing competitions at an early age in her native Australia, de Niese moved with her family to Los Angeles where she made her professional operatic debut at the age of 15 with Los Angeles Opera . She became the youngest singer ever to participate ^[2] in the Young Artists Studio at the Metropolitan Opera , where she debuted at the age of 19 as Barbarina in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro directed by Jonathan Miller and conducted by James Levine . She was subsequently asked to perform the title role in the Met's production of Ravel 's L'enfant et les sortilèges . Other met roles include Cleopatra Giulio Cesare , 2007, Euridice " Orfeo ed Euridice , 2009, and from September-December 2009, de Niese will sing Susanna in the Metropolitan Opera 's version of Le Nozze di Figaro .

De Niese's still growing career has ranged through early Baroque music (Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea ), via Handel , Mozart and contemporary opera premieres^{[ citation needed ]} at major opera houses around the world, to Broadway ( Les Misérables ) and film ( the 2001 Hannibal movie ) roles.

She has appeared in productions of a number of baroque operas on stage and on DVD, for example the Les Arts Florissants production of Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau , and as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare , directed by David McVicar , at Glyndebourne in 2005, 2006 and 2009, and in the same production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2007.

At the end of 2006, when the Nederlandse Opera staged the three Mozart/ Da Ponte operas directed by Ingo Metzmacher , de Niese sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Despina in Cosi fan tutte .

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