FROM ROME: From December 2009 until March 2023, the late Giuseppe Pennisi sent us regular reports from the Italian opera and classical music scene.
ARTICLES BEING VIEWED NOW:
- Spotlight. Ravishing Music - Geoff Pearce reviews works by Bridge and Franck played by Sally Pinkas and the Apple Hill String Quartet
- Francisco Feliciano
- New Year - New Sounds - Mike Wheeler hopes that a collaboration between the Sitwell Singers and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire will become an annual event
- Graciela Agudelo
- Comment
Austrian soprano/mezzo Gabriele Sima was born in Innsbruck on 25 February 1955 and grew up in Salzburg. She studied at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, and made her professional opera debut in 1979.
She was a member of the Vienna State Opera young artist programme (1979-82) and then until 1988 she was a resident artist. From 1988 she was a principal artist at Zurich Opera.
Her roles included Johanna in Friedrich Cerha's Baal and the Nurse in Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto.
Gabriele Sima died in Vienna on 27 April 2016, aged sixty-one.