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Friday, December 11, 2009

Luciana Serra - The Queen.

Luciana Serra (born November 4, 1946 in Genoa) is an Italian soprano.

Serra made her international debut in 1966 at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, but did not achieve general acclaim until the late 1970s, when she took on coloratura roles in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Bellini's La sonnambula. Her 1987 performance in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and her 1988 performance in Donizetti's Don Pasquale are still praised for the clarity of her voice.

Very pure high notes and well train among female or young male sopranos. Thus my favorite piece goes to her performance in Mozart: The Magic Flute.

luciana serra as Queen of the night

Her fame reached a peak during the 1980s, when she performed the "Queen of the night" in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House in London.

In 1988 Serra debuted at the Vienna State Opera singing the Queen of the night in a new production of Die Zauberflöte conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and staged by Otto Schenk.

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