SWESISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, Berwaldhallen in Stockholm - February 17 and 19, 2012
Live on BBC
On youtube
"Paoletta Marrocu is the biggest exclamation mark of the genuine Italian-resonating ensemble; dark and glowing, with a range from the sweetest, most tender whisper to the hoarsely expressed words of a "damned Easter!" (www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scen/pa-sicilien-pa-berwaldhallen-stockholm)
"..Paoletta Marrocu stood out - carrying the whole opera on her shoulders. Both because her role is written to be a great big part and because she is magnificent. She used her warm voice with finesse; often charging Santuzzas lines with restrained despair." (http://www.svd.se/kultur/scen/magnifik-skonsang_6862449.svd)
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, London - January 26, 2012
Dallapiccola - IL PRIGONIERO (the mother)
"Amnesty lnternotional 50th Anniversory concert" with Esa-Pekka Salonen
"At a concert to mark 50 years of Amnesty International, the Beethoven was nothing special, but Dallapiccola's Il Prigionero was unforgettable" ...."While Paoletta Marrocu was heartbreaking as the Prisoner's frantic Mother". (Tim Ashley - The Guardian)
BLOGGER: Boulezin di Mark Berry - "The bite and conviction absent from Salonen’s Beethoven could scarcely have registered more powerfully; the Philharmonia sounded reinvigorated, the prologue’s opening chords screaming less as twelve-note Puccini than in startlingly Stravinskian fashion. They were matched, moreover, even surpassed, by the anguished Mother of Paoletta Marrocu. Her delivery was unabashedly emotional, and all the better for it, those terrible final cries of ‘Figlio’ (son) haunting us, angering us, inciting us."
TEATRO DELLA FORTUNA DI FANO - December 7 and 10, 2011
Giuseppe Verdi - NABUCCO
Conductor: Roberto Parmeggiani
Stage director: Massimo Gasparon
Nabucco Giovanni Meoni, Abigaille Paoletta Marrocu, Zaccaria Michele Pertusi, Ismaele Luca Canonici, Fenena Agata Bienkowska
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini
HAMBURGISCHE STAATSOPER - September 4 and 14, 2011
Giacomo Puccini - TOSCA
Conductor: Stefan Soltesz
Stage Director: Robert Carsen
More at : www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de
LA BOTTEGA DELLA LIRICA - 11. - 17. Juli
Masterclass with Paleotta Marrocu and Anna Brandolini (piano)
More at: www.liricanto.eu
GRAN LICEU DE BARCELONA - April 4 until 20, 2011
Pietro Mascagni - CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Santuzza)
More at: www.liceubarcelona.cat
BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER - February 6 and 12, 2011
Giuseppe Verdi - NABUCCO (Abigaille)
Conductor: Paolo Carignani
Production, Set and Costumes: Yannis Kokkos
More at: www.bayerische.staatsoper.de
TEATRO MASSIMO DI PALERMO - January 22 and 29, 2011
Marco Tutino - SENSO (Livia Serpieri)
Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg
Production, Set and Costumes: Hugo de Ana
More at: www.teatromassimo.it
TEATRO MASSIMO DI PALERMO - January 22 and 29, 2011
Marco Tutino - SENSO (Livia Serpieri)
Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg - Stage Director: Hugo de Ana
More at: www.teatromassimo.it
PALM BEACH OPERA - December 10 and 12, 2010
Giuseppe Verdi - NABUCCO (Abigaille)
Conductor: Bruno Aprea - Stage Director: Guy Montafon
More at: www.pbopera.org
BERGAMO MUSICA FESTIVAL - September 17, 19 and TEATRO VERDI DI SASSARI - October 8, 10, 12, 2010
Gaetano Donizetti - POLIUTO (Paolina)
Stage director: Marco Spada
BUDAPEST NATIONAL OPERA - May Fest - May 10 and 12 2010
Giuseppe Verdi - NABUCCO (Abigaille)
Conductor: Gergely Kesselyák
Director: András Mikó
More at: www.opera.hu
TEATRO FRANCESCO CILEA DI REGGIO CALABRIA - May 4 and 6 2010
Franz Lehar - LA VEDOVA ALLEGRA (Hanna Glawari)
Conductor: Günter Fruhmann
Stage director: Mario De carlo
More at: www.teatrofrancescocilea.it
NOT TO MISS
Pietro Mascagni - CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Opernhaus Zurich 2009
Paoletta Marrocu as Santuzza and José Cura as Turiddu
Available on DVD and Blu-ray!
NOT TO MISS
Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, with CORRIERE DELLA SERA on April 9
Paoletta Marrocu sings Santuzza beside Andrea Bocelli as Turiddu.
Steven Mercurio conducts the Orchestra and the choir of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.
RELEASED: 2006
LABEL: Decca/Philips
ASIN: B000I5X7UW
DE NEDERLANDSE OPER in AMSTERDAM - March 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 2010
Luigi Dallapiccola - IL PRIGIONIERO (the mother)
Conductor: Adam Fischer; Stage director: Peter Stein
More at: www.dno.nl and also on youtube
Foto: Monika Rittershaus
NOT TO MISS
Puccini Il Trittico at the SCALA DI MILANO
Paoletta Marrocu sings Giorgetta beside Juan Pons in IL TABARRO
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Orchestra of la Scala in Milan
DVD Release Date: November 17, 2009
LABEL: Hardy Classics DVD
ASIN: B002RKXQVQ
NOT TO MISS
Verdi's Macbeth with CLASSIC OPERA
Paoletta Marrocu sings the Lady and Thomas Hampson Macbeth, Producion: David Pountney, Zurich 2001
Avilable on CLASSIC VOICE www.classicvoice.com