Biography
Daniela Uccello, soprano born in Messina, began studying piano and singing with her mother and obtained a diploma with honors. She upgraded at the Mozarteum of Salzburg under Rita Streich, at the Opera teaching centre of the Scala Theatre in Milan and under Carla Castellani. She boasts a very wide opera and concert repertoire that includes traditional characters (Violetta, Manon, Susanna) and lesser-known works such as Cimarosa's Italiana in Londra, Galuppi's Arcadia in Brenta, Donizetti's Torquato Tasso, and Sammartini's Memet. She has staged numerous contemporary music performances of the works of renowned composers (Manzoni, Furrer, Yun, Morricone etc.) and is perfectly acquainted with the lieder repertoire of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Wolf, Hindemith, Schönberg, performed alongside leading pianists. Among the theatres and Festivals where she has performed: San Carlo of Naples, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ravenna Festival, Sferisterio of Macerata, Massimo Theatre of Palermo, Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome), Smetana Theatre of Prague, Milano Musica, Festival MiTo, Opera Theatre of Budapest, Auditorium of the Flanders Philharmonic, Metropolitan Museum of New York, Auditorium of Istanbul, etc. with the direction of Arturo Tamayo, Edoardo Müller, Gabriele Ferro, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Woldemar Nelsson, Daniele Gatti, Carlo Rizzi, George Sebastian, Simon Preston and many others. She has made numerous radio and TV recordings with Radio Lugano, Radio Sofia, Hungarian RadioTelevision, Vatican Radio, RaiTv and has cut records with Foné, Akademia, Bongiovanni, BMG Ricordi, Quadrivium, Dynamic. For some years she is teaching Vocal Chamber Music at the "G. Verdi" Conservatoire of Music in Milan.
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