Rossana Potenza

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Born in Manfredonia (FG), Italy, in 1997 she was the winner of the “Lauri Volpi” Prize in Rome and took part in a Gala concert at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (broadcast by RAIDUE).
She has attended courses at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese, at the Accademia Paolo Grassi of Martina Franca and at “Riva del Garda Festival”. She took a degree in philosophy at the university.
In 1997 Rossana Potenza debuted at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in a new production staged by Piero Faggioni of Massenet’s Don Quichotte, under the baton of Alain Guingal, and with Ruggero Raimondi, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Philippe Leroy.
1998 season brought her to the Festival della Valle D’Itria of Martina Franca to sing in Giordano’s Mese Mariano and to the Budapest Singing Competition, where she won the Special Prize of Radio Stuttgart.
In 1999 she took part in the season opening of the XXV Festival della Valle D’Itria of Martina Franca, performing in Ippolito e Aricia, under the baton of Guido De Monticelli (recorded by Dynamic). During the same period she made her successful debut in the role of La Bohème at the Teatro Verdi di Padova.
In February 2000 she recorded on Cd Mozart’s Exultate lubilate with the Orchestra “Filarmonica Veneta” of the Teatro Comunale di Treviso. In August, she debuted at the Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto in Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna), directed by Beppe De Tomasi.
Rossana Potenza regularly performs in recitals, often broadcast by the public TV. Among them, it is worth mentioning the concert in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo (December 2000), broadcast by Italian televition RAIDUE, the Christmas concert in the Basilica of Tricase (Lecce), televised by TMC and recorded on DVD.
Her 2001 season was marked by performances of Fedora (Olga) for the re-opening of the Teatro Umberto Giordano, a concert in the Basilica di S. Paolo Fuori le Mura for the centenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s death, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (broadcast by RAIDUE and DVD recorded), a recital at the Teatro Argentina di Roma, (Rolando Nicolosi, pianist) and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater led by Tamas Pal at the Festival di Pasqua in Rome.
In July 2001 she sang in a Concert gala at the Teatro Greco di Taormina with Josè Carreras (televised by RAIDUE).
Engagements at the Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi and at the Teatro Comunale di Mantova have followed (Musetta in La Bohème), as well as the roles of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Argentina with Renato Bruson (DVD recorded). Prestigious was her debut at Carnegie Hall of New York in Il Corsaro (Medora) in March 2004, and the performances in Aida in Toulouse.
Her 2004/5 season was marked by the portraying of Musetta in La Bohème at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo under the baton of Donato Renzetti, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and by the debut in the role of Desdemona (Otello) in Sofia for the opening of lyric season of Opera Theatre.
Subsequently she sang La Bohème in Florence, Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi and in Fermo, IL mondo della luna di G. Paisiello in the role of Clarice at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste,Carlos Gomes’s Il Cristoforo Colombo in the role of the queen Isabella at the Teatro Bellini di Catania in the first europe performance.

On the concert side, she has also performed in Faurè’s Requiem and Bernstein’s West Side Story at the Festival Euromediterraneo in Rome, in a concert under the baton of Eve Queler (works by Puccini), Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the String group of Berliner Philarmoniker, the Christmas concert in the Cathedral of Milan, with Monserrat Caballé and Renato Bruson (broadcast by Rai and soon on DVD), in the Gala dedicated to the 40 year of career of Giorgio Merighi, with Mirella Freni, in Pergolesi’s Salve Regina with the chamber group of the Berliner Philharmoniker, in a recital at the Rudolfinum in Praga, in an Opera Gala for the foundation “Arena di Verona”,in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with London Simphony Orchestra,in a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York, in a concert at Notre Dame Church in Montreal and at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto.She sings with Placido Domingo in Pecs, Hungary, under the baton of Eugene Kohn and after in the Massenet’s Werther at the Bellini Theatre,Catania and in Pagliacci in the role of Nedda at Opera Theatre in Cagliari.

RECORDS:
Il mese mariano U. Giordano (Dynamic)

Ippolito e Aricia T.Traetta (Dynamic)

Esultate Jubilate W. A. Mozart (Dynamic)

Il Cristoforo Colombo C. Gomes (Bongiovanni)

DVD:

Carreras Gala (Pan Dream)

Le nozze di Figaro W.A. Mozart (Pan Dream)

Don Giovanni W.A. Mozart (Pan Dream)

Verdi Sacred BBC symphony orchestra

Puccini opera gala

Christmas Concert in Milan