Gaulitana: A Festival in Music has engaged top Italian soprano Monica Zanettin for its upcoming operatic production, Verdi’s Otello. This is being held on the 25th April 2020 at the Aurora Theatre in Gozo, for which online booking is open on www.teatruaurora.com.
Zanettin will be complementing two other world-class artists for this production, tenor Kristian Benedikt and baritone Vladimir Stoyanov. This Otello production will bring back the three artists together after their highly successful Arena di Verona production of the Verdi’s masterpiece in 2018 – which, as MTG Lirica reported, was “a very warm success with the large and enthusiastic audience, with peaks of approval for Benedikt, Stoyanov and Zanettin”.
Indeed, Zanettin’s rapport with the Arena – where she features regularly – is very strong. A rising star, she first came to the fore after scoring notable personal success in the Arena’s Aida in 2014. Since then she became a regular in other major theatres such as Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Venice’s La Fenice, Naples’ San Carlo, Genoa’s Carlo Felice, Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, amongst others, and has worked with leading conductors such as Juraj Valčuha, Daniel Oren, Frederic Chaslin, Andrea Battistoni, Daniele Rustioni, and Alain Altinoglu. For her performances she been been acclaimed by the critics and public alike.
Zanettin has also been hailed as being “Desdemona”. Indeed, reviewing her Veronese performance, L’Ape Musicale claims that “it is difficult to desire a Desdemona other than the one represented by Monica Zanettin. In addition to the richly nuanced voice, with good volume and solid technique, Zanettin has appreciable acting skills and an elegant scenic gesture, also possessing the physique du rôle. There is no doubt, she is Desdemona: a pure, courageous, faithful, sweet and understanding woman. She sings with great sensitivity and transport, demonstrates a very accurate singing line and an elaborate phrasing. Her interpretation grows from one scene to another … reach[ing] its peak in the second half of the opera, when her voice … flows freely in the concertato that concludes the third act and strikes with deep and touching sounds in the Willow’s Song and in the Ave Maria.”
Very much adapt for Verdi roles, Zanettin has been hailed as “Verdienne émérite” by the Forum Opéra. For her Amelia in Ballo in Maschera, Le Figaro underlines that she “leaves a strong impression by the beauty of the timbre as much as by the control of the voice, flexible yet homogeneous, not to mention an emotion which is always noble”, whereas classiquenews.com affirms that “Monica Zanettin wins all the votes as the Amelia she embodies is just, true, deeply touching. The voice is splendid, richly-coloured, expressive.”
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