Katia Ricciarelli

Katia Ricciarelli

Born: January 16, 1946
in Rovigo, Veneto, Italy
Catiuscia Maria Stella Ricciarelli (born 16 January 1946), known as Katia Ricciarelli, is an Italian soprano and actress.

Born in Rovigo, Veneto, to a very poor family, she struggled during her younger years when she studied music.

She studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in La bohème in Mantua in 1969, followed by a 1970 appearance in Il trovatore in Parma. In the following year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses, including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); Teatro alla Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening her repertoire of Rossini's operas.

Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's Otello in 1986, alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film journalists, for her role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte di nozze.

In 1991 she founded Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli, and, since 2003, she has been Artistic Director of the annual summer Macerata Opera Festival. In 2006 she participated in the reality show La fattoria (Italian version of The Farm) on Canale 5.

In 1986, on her 40th birthday, she married Pippo Baudo, a television personality; she filed for divorce in the summer of 2004.

In 2021-2022 she participated in the reality show “Grande Fratello VIP” (Big Brother VIP 6), getting evicted after 165 days.

Source: Article "Katia Ricciarelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Katia Ricciarelli...

Natural Lefty
Title: Natural Lefty
Character: Maria
Released: March 31, 2022
Type: Movie
A widowed mother, tries desperately to get an entry into the ruthless world of professional football for her 12-yer-old son.
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Title: Come una madre
Character: Elisa
Released: February 2, 2020
Type: TV
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Infernet
Title: Infernet
Character: Sara
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Through five stories, the film talks about the problems related to social networks and its use especially by young people.
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La sedia della felicità
Title: La sedia della felicità
Character: Norma Pecche
Released: April 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
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Title: Faccia d'angelo
Character: madre del Toso
Released: March 12, 2012
Type: TV
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Faccia d'angelo
Title: Faccia d'angelo
Character: Madre del boss
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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First Happiness
Title: First Happiness
Character: Madre della sposa
Released: July 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Five patients suffering from serious mental disorders, after therapy carried out at the mental health department, are entrusted to the care of Carmen who has the task of helping them resume a normal life and reintegrate into the social and working context. All of them go to live in the apartment where they are distrusted by their neighbours, intimidated by their strange habits. Only four of them will be able to regain possession of their lives, overcoming the dark tunnel into which their mind had fallen.
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Title: One Step from Heaven
Character: Assunta
Released: April 10, 2011
Type: TV
The investigations and adventures of the Forestry Corps of San Candido.
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Il ritmo della vita
Title: Il ritmo della vita
Character: Katia
Released: March 11, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Friends at the Margherita Café
Title: The Friends at the Margherita Café
Character: Mamma di Taddeo
Released: April 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Character: Olga
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
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Un dottore quasi perfetto
Title: Un dottore quasi perfetto
Character: Luisa
Released: May 31, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Second Wedding Night
Title: The Second Wedding Night
Character: Lilliana Vespero
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: Movie
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
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Title: Carabinieri
Character: Monica Grandi
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: TV
Carabinieri is an Italian television series that aired on Canale 5 from March 2002 to July 30, 2008. The series is an action thriller with added elements of comedy, and has been compared to the soap opera format. It told the story of the police barracks located in Città della Pieve.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Giulia Baldeschi
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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Otello
Title: Otello
Character: Desdemona
Released: September 4, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
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Il viaggio a Reims
Title: Il viaggio a Reims
Character: Madame Cortese
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The historic 1984 revival performance of Il viaggio a Reims was the first time in over 150 years the opera was performed. Set in a luxurious hotel in Plombières-les-Bains, the opera follows a diverse group of aristocratic characters as they gather to celebrate the coronation of King Charles X of France. Amidst the festivities, wacky antics ensue, romantic entanglements unfold, and the characters face various comedic and dramatic challenges, showcasing Rossini's masterful blend of music, comedy, and drama.
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Falstaff
Title: Falstaff
Character: Mrs. Alice Ford
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
This first-rate 1982 production of Verdi’s Falstaff marked the great 20th century Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini's return to opera conducting after more than a decade's absence. Renato Bruson leads a brilliant cast as the lovable fat knight Sir John Falstaff, going toe to toe in a series of hijinks with Katia Ricciarelli (Alice Ford) and Brenda Boozer (Meg Page).
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
Title: Georges Bizet: Carmen
Character: Micaela
Released: May 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Carmen, presented in a production at the French Opera House.
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Un Ballo in Maschera
Title: Un Ballo in Maschera
Character: Amelia, Renato's wife
Released: February 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.
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Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
Title: Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
Character: Amelia
Released: July 27, 1975
Type: Movie
This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Placido Domingo (Gustavus), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Piero Cappucili (Renato), Patricia Payne (? - the booklet or DVD fails to credit the singer) (Ulrica) and Claudio Abbado in the pit: all at their peak, you just simply cannot go wrong when purchasing this DVD. This performance made me realise why I had fallen in love with opera: beautiful (today one should be thankful) and convincing sets and costumes, and fiery conducting and singing from all the above soloists which leaves you breathless. Domingo as the King (not the Governor of Boston) is simply ravishing! He is so convincing and dashing as Gustavus - I think very few tenors nowadays can even attempt such a convincing vocal and dramatic performance.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV