Description

IRIS ADAMI CORRADETTI (MILAN, 19 MARCH, 1903 – PADOVA, 26 JUNE, 1998)

 

 

 

 

She studied singing under her mother, Bice Adami, a renowned soprano, and her father, Ferruccio Corradetti, a celebrated baritone. She made her operatic debut in 1927 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan as Rosalina in Franco Vittadini’s opera Anima allegra. After a successful career, she retired from the stage in 1948.

Following her retirement, she became a highly respected vocal pedagogue. She initially taught in Trieste and, from 1959, served as a professor at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice. Later, she continued her teaching career in Padua. Among her distinguished students were Katia Ricciarelli, Margherita Roberti, and Katharina Ikonomou.

 

Chronology of some appearances

 

1926 Milano Teatro Dal Verme Anima allegra (Carolita)

1927 Milano La Scala Sly (Rosalina) (Debut)

1929 Milano La Scala The Tale of Tsar Saltan di N. Rimsky-Korsakov (-) (Premiere)

1931 Milano La Scala Bacco in Toscana M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco (-) (Premiere)

1931 Milano La Scala La Notte di Zoraima di I. Montemezzi (-) (Premiere)

1936 Milano La Scala Il Campiello di E. Wolf-Ferrari (Lucieta) (Premiere)

1938 Milano La Scala Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San)

1939 Roma Opera Monte Ivnor (-) di L. Rocca (Premiere)

1942 Firenze Teatro Comunale Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San)

 

TRACKLIST

 

Iris Adami Corradetti – Soprano Iris Adami Corradetti

Label: Edizioni Del Tima Club – TIMA 61

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: Italy

Genre: Classical

Style: Opera, Vocal

A1 Intervista Con L’ Artista

A2 Un Bel Di (Madama Butterfly)

Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

A3 Flammen Perdonami (Lodoletta)

Composed By – Pietro Mascagni

A4 Paolo Datemi Pace (Francesca Da Rimini)

Composed By – Riccardo Zandonai

A5 Tu Che Di Gel (Turandot)

Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

B1 Les Berceaux

Composed By – Gabriel Fauré

B2 Notre Amour

Composed By – Gabriel Fauré

B3 Automne

Composed By – Gabriel Fauré

B4 Lontana

Composed By – Riccardo Zandonai

B5 Di Maria Dolce

Composed By – Giorgio Federico Ghedini

B6 Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques

Composed By – Maurice Ravel

Conductor – Armando La Rosa Parodi

Piano – Antonio Beltrami, Gabriele Bianchi

Soprano Vocals – Iris Adami Corradetti