Antonietta Stella 安东尼耶塔·斯黛拉

安东尼耶塔•斯黛拉（Antonietta Stella，1929－），意大利女高音歌唱家，1929年3月15日出生于Perugia，早年在当地学习声乐，后到罗马，1949年在Bologna声乐大赛上多得首奖，1950年赢得Spoleto竞争，1951年作为《La forza del destino》中的Leonora在罗马歌剧院做了歌剧首演，1953年在这里作为Lavinia一角参加了Guido Guerrini歌剧《Enea》的世界首演，同年在米兰La Scala歌剧院演唱了威尔第《Otello》中Desdemona，1954年在佛罗伦萨出演了威尔第的《Aroldo》，同时涉猎了一些瓦格纳歌剧角色，包括Elsa，Elisabeth，Sieglinde和Senta等，1955年和1956年分别在伦敦科文特花园和科隆歌剧院主演了《阿依达》，1956年还在巴西主演过贝里尼的《Norma》，同年11月13日作为阿依达首次登台纽约大都会歌剧院，接下来在4个赛季的50多场演出中出演了8个不同的角色，其中包括Tosca,Butterfly,Violetta,Elisabeth de Valois, 《Un ballo in maschera》中的Amelia等，1957年首演于旧金山歌剧院，1960年因与Rudolf Bing发生争执退出纽约大都会歌剧院，之后主要在欧洲演出，主演的出色剧目有《Simon Boccanegra》,《Aida》,《Don Carlos》,《Il Trovatore》,《Tosca》,最成功的当属《Madama Butterfly》。

Antonietta Stella is an Italian operatic soprano, one of the finest Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, possessing a beautiful and ample voice, and particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini roles. Stella studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and made her debut in Spoleto, as Leonora in Il trovatore, in 1950. She quickly sang throughout Italy, Florence, Naples, Parma, Turin, Catania, Verona, Venice, etc., and made her debut at La Scala in Milan, as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, in 1954, where she sang regularly to great acclaim until 1963, in roles such as Violetta in La traviata, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, the title roles in Aida and Tosca, Mimi in La bohème, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, etc. In 1955, she made her debuts at the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Palais Garnier in Paris, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the following year, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she successfully sang until 1960. In 1958 she had a particular success in a new Metropolitan production of Madama Butterfly designed in the manner of Japanese woodblock prints. Her assimilation of Japanese physicality and gesture was particularly praised. Her Leonore in Il Trovatore was also presented in a new production at the Metropolitan to public and critical acclaim. Stella was an elegant, glamorous figure on stage and an accomplished actress. Stella, like so many notable artists of the 1950s and 60s, was somewhat eclipsed by the competition between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, but she did have a notable career and left several very worthwhile recordings, including works such as Linda di Chamounix, La battaglia di Legnano, L'Africaine, Simon Boccanegra, which is more than can be said for some other singers of the time. She appeared in an Italian television production of Andrea Chénier, opposite Mario del Monacoand Giuseppe Taddei in 1955, recently released on DVD. She can also be heard on an Italian radio broadcast of Spontini's rarely performed work Agnes von Hohenstaufen, opposite Montserrat Caballé, released on CD.