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The Italian mezzo-soprano, Anna Bonitatibus, made her first public appearance singing at the age of 4. She began studying music and piano at the age 9, later began studying singing. In 1990, she obtained her Diploma with Honours in Piano from Conservatory Gesualdo da Venosa, Potenza, her native town. She gave concerts, and atrtended Courses and Competitions as pianist. She had Composition Studies in Naples, Milan (1990/1996); Advanced Course of Vocal Technique, Rodolfo Celletti, Martina Franca (1990-1991); Courses specializing in Vocal Technique, Guglielmo Romolo Gazzani (1991 and 1992). In 1992, she moved to Turin and after a few months to Milan, her “adoptive” city. She played as a pianist W.A. Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 KV 488, with Orchestra of the Conservatorio G. da Venosa at Auditorium of the Conservatory and Teatro Stabile, Potenza - conductor Antonio Sinagra. She made her debut recording in Antonio Vivaldi's La Griselda role of Roberto, Naxos - Radio France, Montpellier. In 1993, she received her Diploma with Honours in Canto lirico, Conservatory Niccolò Paganini, Genoa.
Anna Bonitatibus is renowned for the noble passion with which she interprets titles between the most famous of ‘teatro musicale’, as well as the tireless commitment with which she promotes a rarer repertoire. More than seventy operas performed, from Claudio Monteverdi’s masterpieces to titles back to proscenium by Francesco Cavalli (Didone, Ercole amante, Calisto) crossing George Frideric Handel's operatic production (Agrippina, Deidamia, Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Tamerlano, Tolomeo, Ottone, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) as well as composers from the Neapolitan school, from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi to Cimarosa, and her beloved Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L’Italiana in Algeri, Il Viaggio a Reims, Tancredi, and furthermore Cantate, Masses and the rare and precious Péchés de Vieillesse by the ‘pesarese’.
As the embodiment of Cherubino from the Daponteian Le Nozze di Figaro, she has become one of the most acclaimed performers of W.A. Mozart. Then follows Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Mitridate Re di Ponto, La Clemenza di Tito, as well as sacred and profane repertoire by the Salzburgian composer. The Mezzo-soprano’s wide repertoire includes Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi, Ginevra di Scozia by Simon Mayr, Enrico di Borgogna by Donizetti interpreted with great success at the Donizetti Opera, Bergamo (2018). The French repertoire includes Georges Bizet's Carmen, a role brilliantly debuted in Madrid (2018) and L’Enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz and Gounod as well as Les contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, Werther and Don Quichotte by Massenet.
From first steps at the Teatro alla Scala, to Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Opéra comique in Parigi, to the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Staatsoper in Vienna, to Royal Opera House in London, Festivals (Salzburg, Florence, Munich, Bologna, Grange) and to the most renowned international concert halls (from Russia to USA), Anna Bonitatibus collaborated with the most acclaimed conductors, directors and artists such as: Charles Mackerras, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, René Jacobs, William Christie, Ivor Bolton, Myung-Whun Chung, Alan Curtis, Roberto Abbado, Ottavio Dantone, Marc Minkowski, Raphaël Pichon, Stefano Montanari, Angela Hewitt, Andrea Lucchesini and Luca Ronconi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Dario Fo, David McVicar, Laurent Pelly, David Alden, Jonathan Miller, Kasper Holten, Emilio Sagi, Irina Brook, Ivo van Hove, David Bösch, Mariame Clément, Tobias Kratzer, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Valérie Lesort; among the many colleagues on stage: Michele Pertusi, Christian Gerhaher, Rockwell Blake, Barbara Frittoli, Juan Diego Florez, Cecilia Bartoli, Simon Keenlyside, Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Angela Gheorghiu, Patrizia Ciofi, Michael Spyres, Thomas Allen, Roberto Alagna, Vivica Genaux, Lisette Oropesa, Magdalena Kožená, Philippe Jaroussky, Aleksandra Kurzac.
Interpreter of numerous Recitals of which she personally curates the programs, the most recent includes: “Beethoven and Rossini”, “Beyond the Borders: Music and Musicians of the New Europe” (Wigmore Hall); “Prime Donne – from Margherita Durastanti to Adelaide Malanotte” (Händel Festival, Karlsruhe); “Tanti affetti: Rossini e le sue Muse” (Rossini Opera Festival); “Cantori e Maestri” (I Festival Toscanini, Parma).
In 2021 Anna Bonitatibus debuted at the Hamburg's Staatsoper with G.F. Handel's Agrippina (Barry Kosky’s production), with the same title and production she returned at the Bayerische Staastoper in May 2022 greeted with enormous success. A double debut took place during Summer 2022, at the Aix en Provence Festival in W.A. Mozart's Idomeneo; during the Autumn of the same year she sang in Verdi’s Messa di Requiem on tour with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano (Italy, Netherlands, Spain). 2023 opens in the name of G.F. Handel: debut in Alcina - Ruggiero - on tour with Marc Minkowski and his Les Musiciens du Louvre (Paris, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia) and which will be concluded in February 2024 at the Teatro alla Scala; inauguration of the Händel Halle Festival with her first Serse : at the end of the performance she has been awarded of the Händel Preis 2023. In the same year, for the First Respighi Festival (Bologna), she performed the lyric poem Il Tramonto.
Alongside her artistic activity, Anna Bonitatibus is engaged in the research and promotion of Lirica italiana da camera through the Publishing House “Consonarte – Vox in Musica”, that she founded in London. She has also taught at the Händel Akademie Karlsruhe. Among her pupils and/or singers who have attended her master-classes: Pauline Stöhr (Contralto/Mezzo-soprano), Álvaro Tinjacá-Bedoya (Counter-tenor), Radoslava Vorgić (Soprano).
In February 2024 Alcina, with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, will be published (Pentatone); her recent album "Monologues", (Prospero, 2023) is dedicated to monologues set to music of characters from mythology, history & literature, recorded with Adele D’Aronzo. Among her most successful recordings: Semiramide – La Signora regale (DHM), International Opera Awards 2015; en travesti (BR Klassik); La Tempesta, Marianna Martines (DHM); «Canti italiani», Beethoven (Consonarte). In DVD: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Hardy-RaiTrade), La Didone & Ercole amante (Opu), W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte (Arthaus), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Virgin Classic). Available in streaming: W.A. Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito & Lucio Silla (La Monnaie, Bruxelles), L’Italiana in Algeri (Staatsoper, Vienna). |
