Nuccia Focile

Born: 1961-11-25

Nuccia Focile (born 25 November 1961) is an Italian operatic soprano. Nuccia Focile was born in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, studied in Turin under Elio Battaglia, and made her opera debut in 1983 as Serpina in La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi in Spoleto. In 1984 she sang her first Mimi in La Boheme by Puccini at the Teatro Regio in Turin and made her debut as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at La Scala in 1986. Also in that year, she won the International Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia, following which she made many concert appearances with the famous tenor. In 1995 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème. She has performed many leading roles for Welsh National Opera. Focile has been described as bringing an "almost unbearable poignancy" to Mimì, her best-known role. She has made several recordings for the Philips, Opera Rara and Telarc labels, including three Mozart operas (Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni) conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, Ascanio in Pergolesi's Lo Frate'Nnamorato, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale conducted by Riccardo Muti and Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin conducted by Semyon Bychkov. Focile was awarded Artist of the Year 2013 for La Voix Humaine by Poulenc at Seattle Opera. In 2017 Nuccia Focile was appointed Professor of Voice at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Source: Article "Nuccia Focile" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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L’Italiana in Algeri

as Elvira
Released: 1987-12-01

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer...

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Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala

as Norina
Released: 1994-01-01

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Don Carlo

as Voce dal cielo
Released: 1992-12-01

This opera was filmed live at La Scala in 1992. The all-star cast includes Luciano Pavarotti,...

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Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)

as Ascanio
Released: 1989-12-22

Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989

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Pavarotti - My Heart's Delight

as Self
Released: 1993-06-09

Luciano Pavarotti live from the Piazza Grande, Modena.

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Le monde est à vous

as Self
First aired: 1987-09-13

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