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ALEXANDRINA PENDATCHANSKA
Soprano
Video 1 Pendatchanska. Electra.Idomeneo.Mozart
Video 2 Pendatchanska. Orlando Paladino.Haydn
Video 3 Pendatchanska. Agrippina.Haëndel
Video 4 Pendatchanska Idomeneo Mozart
Alexandrina Pendatchanska was born in Sofia where she graduated from the National School of Music with piano and singing. Her vocal teacher was her mother – the soprano Valerie Popova. At age of 19 she has won the «Antonin Dvorak» Singing Competition, the International Singing Competition in Bilbao and the UNISA singing competition in Pretoria. Since 1989, Miss Pendatchanska has performed at opera houses, like Teatro dell' Opera di Roma, the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Teatro Verdi Trieste, the Monte Carlo Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele, the Washington Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. In the seasons 1997-2001 Miss Pendatchanska appeared as Elisabetta in ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Torino, Naples), Ermione (Santa Fe), Adina (Pesaro), LA STRANIERA (Catania), Suor Angelica (Lucca), Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Lucrezia Contarini of I DUE FOSCARI (Naples), VIAGGIO A REIMS (Bruxelles). Her Mozart repertoire includes Donna Anna (Lausanne, Houston, Lisbon, New York, Brussels, Prague), Donna Elvira (Washington), Aspasia (Torino), Vitellia (Santa Fe). Some highlights of the past seasons are The New Year Gala Concert of Russian National Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Spivakov in Moscow, her debut in Paris Theatre des Champs-Elysées where she was Stonatrilla in L’OPERA SERIA with Concerto Köln conducted by René Jacobs, Rossini’s ERMIONE in New York, GIULIO CESARE in Innsbrucker Festwochen, Vivaldi’s LA FIDA NINFA with Ensemble Matheus in Festival d’Ambronay, Donna Anna in Toulouse, Semiramide and Donna Elvira in Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Baden –Baden autumn festival and LUISA MILLER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, new production TURCO IN ITALIA at the Bavarian State Opera, DONNA DEL LAGO in New York, CLEMENZA DI TITO in Bari, Lyon and at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Recent engagements include concerts of PETITE MESSE SOLENELLE under Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig and London, concert performances of IDOMENEO with René Jacobs, a new production of Haydn´s ORLANDO PALADINO at the Staatsoper in Berlin and at Festival of Old Music in Innsbruck and DON GIOVANNI in Lyon. With Complesso Barocco under Alan Curtis she sung the title part in concert performances of AGRIPPINA in Milan, Brescia, Viterbo and Vienna and at the Staatsoper Berlin sung Fiorilla/IL TURCO IN ITALIA. Future projects include a new production of AGRIPPINA at the Staatsoper Berlin and IDOMENEO at Theatre de La Monnaie Brussels. It will follow a MARIA STUARDA in Toronto and a new production of FINTA GIARDINIERA in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien. She has performed Verdi’s MESSA DA REQUIEM, Rossini’s STABAT MATER, Honnegger’s LE ROI DAVID with orchestras as The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai, Philadelphia Orchestra, L’ Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Solisti Veneti, Russian National Orchestra, The Philharmonic Orchestra of ORF, Wiener Symphoniker, L’Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has worked with conductors as Myun-Wyun Chung, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, Jesus Lopos-Cobos, Nello Santi, Bruno Bartoletti, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Daniel Oren, Evelino Pido’, Vladimir Spivakov, René Jacobs. Alexandrina Pendatchanska’s discography enlist Glinka’s A LIFE FOR THE TZAR (Antonida) for Sony, Rachmaninov’s THE BELLS for Decca, Donizetti’s PARISINA D’ESTE for Dynamics, as well as a recital of operatic arias for Capriccio, Sartorio’s GIULIO CESARE for ORF, Mozart’s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO with René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi and the dramatic coloratura album GENUINE. Her performance as Elisabetta in ROBERTO DEVEREUX and Lucrezia Contarini in I DUE FOSCARI are available on DVD. She is also Donna Elvira in the recording of DON GIOVANNI conducted by René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi due in the spring 2007. TD>
Video 1 Pendatchanska. Electra.Idomeneo.Mozart
Video 2 Pendatchanska. Orlando Paladino.Haydn
Video 3 Pendatchanska. Agrippina.Haëndel
Video 4 Pendatchanska Idomeneo Mozart
Alexandrina Pendatchanska was born in Sofia where she graduated from the National School of Music with piano and singing. Her vocal teacher was her mother – the soprano Valerie Popova. At age of 19 she has won the «Antonin Dvorak» Singing Competition, the International Singing Competition in Bilbao and the UNISA singing competition in Pretoria. Since 1989, Miss Pendatchanska has performed at opera houses, like Teatro dell' Opera di Roma, the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Teatro Verdi Trieste, the Monte Carlo Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele, the Washington Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. In the seasons 1997-2001 Miss Pendatchanska appeared as Elisabetta in ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Torino, Naples), Ermione (Santa Fe), Adina (Pesaro), LA STRANIERA (Catania), Suor Angelica (Lucca), Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Lucrezia Contarini of I DUE FOSCARI (Naples), VIAGGIO A REIMS (Bruxelles). Her Mozart repertoire includes Donna Anna (Lausanne, Houston, Lisbon, New York, Brussels, Prague), Donna Elvira (Washington), Aspasia (Torino), Vitellia (Santa Fe). Some highlights of the past seasons are The New Year Gala Concert of Russian National Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Spivakov in Moscow, her debut in Paris Theatre des Champs-Elysées where she was Stonatrilla in L’OPERA SERIA with Concerto Köln conducted by René Jacobs, Rossini’s ERMIONE in New York, GIULIO CESARE in Innsbrucker Festwochen, Vivaldi’s LA FIDA NINFA with Ensemble Matheus in Festival d’Ambronay, Donna Anna in Toulouse, Semiramide and Donna Elvira in Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Baden –Baden autumn festival and LUISA MILLER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, new production TURCO IN ITALIA at the Bavarian State Opera, DONNA DEL LAGO in New York, CLEMENZA DI TITO in Bari, Lyon and at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Recent engagements include concerts of PETITE MESSE SOLENELLE under Riccardo Chailly in Leipzig and London, concert performances of IDOMENEO with René Jacobs, a new production of Haydn´s ORLANDO PALADINO at the Staatsoper in Berlin and at Festival of Old Music in Innsbruck and DON GIOVANNI in Lyon. With Complesso Barocco under Alan Curtis she sung the title part in concert performances of AGRIPPINA in Milan, Brescia, Viterbo and Vienna and at the Staatsoper Berlin sung Fiorilla/IL TURCO IN ITALIA. Future projects include a new production of AGRIPPINA at the Staatsoper Berlin and IDOMENEO at Theatre de La Monnaie Brussels. It will follow a MARIA STUARDA in Toronto and a new production of FINTA GIARDINIERA in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien. She has performed Verdi’s MESSA DA REQUIEM, Rossini’s STABAT MATER, Honnegger’s LE ROI DAVID with orchestras as The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai, Philadelphia Orchestra, L’ Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Solisti Veneti, Russian National Orchestra, The Philharmonic Orchestra of ORF, Wiener Symphoniker, L’Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has worked with conductors as Myun-Wyun Chung, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, Jesus Lopos-Cobos, Nello Santi, Bruno Bartoletti, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Daniel Oren, Evelino Pido’, Vladimir Spivakov, René Jacobs. Alexandrina Pendatchanska’s discography enlist Glinka’s A LIFE FOR THE TZAR (Antonida) for Sony, Rachmaninov’s THE BELLS for Decca, Donizetti’s PARISINA D’ESTE for Dynamics, as well as a recital of operatic arias for Capriccio, Sartorio’s GIULIO CESARE for ORF, Mozart’s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO with René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi and the dramatic coloratura album GENUINE. Her performance as Elisabetta in ROBERTO DEVEREUX and Lucrezia Contarini in I DUE FOSCARI are available on DVD. She is also Donna Elvira in the recording of DON GIOVANNI conducted by René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi due in the spring 2007. TD>
