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VALENTINA VALENTE – soprano

Born in Italy, Valentina Valente began very young to study violin and voice, receiving the degree from the Conservatory of Music “N. Paganini” of Genova.

She has been a singing pupil of Professor Elio Battaglia in Turin and at the Academy “Hugo Wolf” in Acquasparta (Italy).

Arts graduate with a BA in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (German/Arabic) at the University of Turin.

In 1991 she won the Mozart Prize at the 10^th Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna and in 1992 the First Prize in the J. Gayarre International Singing Competition in Pamplona, Spain (President of the Jury: José Carreras).

In 1993 Valentina gave her stage debut in a Berlin Philharmoniker production of Mussorgski’s Boris Godunov with Claudio Abbado (CD for Sony Classical) in Berlin and in Salzburg’s Festival and Tokyo.

She has performed at some of the most important theatres around the world as the Berliner Philharmonie, Salzburg Großes Festspielhaus, Staatsoper in Wien, Bunka Kaikan and NHK Hall in Tokyo, La Monnaie in Bruxelles, ORW in Liège, Oper Frankfurt, Teatro Monumental and Television RTV Madrid, Television France2 Paris, La Scala di Milano, San Carlo di Napoli, Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio, Lingotto and Auditorium Rai in Torino, Petruzzelli in Bari, Massimo in Palermo, Bellini in Catania, La Feniceof Venice, etc.

Versatile artist, she sings operatic roles from the Baroque and the Italian belcanto to the modern and contemporary repertoire: she sings in operas by Monteverdi, Haendel, Stradella, Gluck, Mozart, Paisiello, Cimarosa, Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Offenbach, Puccini, Humperdinck, Honegger, Wolf-Ferrari, Petrassi, Zemlinsky, Weill-Brecht, Berg, Menotti, Nono, Dallapiccola, Reimann, Corghi, Ambrosini, Isang Yun, as well as in prime operas such as, for instance, the first Italian performance of Lear by Aribert Reimann in Turin, or Rinaldo&C. by Azio Corghi with the Swingle Singers at the Bellini Theatre in Catania. In 2000 she contributed to the world creation of Pierre Bartholomée’s Le rěve de Diotime, a long monodrama for voice and 19 instruments, text by Henry Bauchau, commissioned by La Monnaie in Bruxelles for the 300 Anniversary of the Opera House (the recording pour le label Cypres received the highly regarded “Prix Choc” award from the French music magazine “Le Monde de la Musique” and a “Joker” from the magazine “Crescendo”). The belgian composer has written for her the role of Antigone in Oedipe sur la route (libretto by Henry Bauchau), opera in four acts, performed at La Monnaie in Bruxelles with Josè Van Dam as Oedipe. She sings with the Mdi contemporary ensemble (invited by Ivan Fedele for the Rassegna Koine she sings works by Marco Momi, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire under the direction of Sylvano Bussotti, premiere the 7^th april 2010 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milano).

Valentina Valente made her debut in the role of Lulu (Lulu by Alban Berg) in 1999 at the Opèra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, gaining international recognition. First Italian singer to perform Berg’s opera in German, she was again Lulu at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and at the Oper Frankfurt in the English National Opera of London production.

She has performed with such famous conductors as Claudio Abbado, Gürer Aykal, Pierre Bartholomée, Leo Brouwer, Massimo de Bernart, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Carignani, Patrick Davin, Johannes Debus, Arthur Fagen, Marino Formenti, Eric Hull, Will Humburg, Peter Maag, Andrea Molino, Georges-Elie Octors, Paolo Olmi, Marcello Panni, Friedrich Pleyer, György Györivany Rath, Donato Renzetti, Stefan Anton Reck, Pascal Rophé, Roberto Solci, Arturo Tamayo, Jonathan Webb, under the direction of Daniele Abbado, Jonathan Miller, Mario Martone, Francesco Micheli, Giuliano Montaldo, Richard Jones, Elmar Ottenthal, Pierpaolo Pacini, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Luca Ronconi, Jèrôme Savary, Philippe Sireuil, Thomas Schulte-Michels, Andrej Tarkowskij, Micha van Hoecke, Stefano Vizioli, Herbert Wernicke.

Together with the composer and pianist Erik Battaglia, she has performed at some of the most important festivals around the world, singing German Lieder and French and Russian songs: they have been invited, among others, by Settembre Musica in Turin for Liederabende devoted to Brahms and Schumann’s songs, and for a concert dedicated to Aribert Reimann for his 70s. They have performed two concerts of Lieder by Richard Strauss during the “Festival Strauss” in Perugia at the presence of Dr. Christian Strauss. They have recently, successfully performed Suleika e lo specchio, ovvero l’amore e la caducità, composed on texts from the “West-östlicher Divan” by Goethe, with classical Lieder and 17 Variations for String Quartet and voice on a theme by Webern written by Erik Battaglia (Torino, Unione Musicale). They have recorded Il Canzoniere Italiano and Rispetti op.11 and op.12 by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Fonit-Cetra), and in 2008 Goethe-Lieder by Italian Composers (Accademia di Santa Cecilia).

In 2006 she was invited as President of the Jury at the International Singing Competition “La romanza da salotto” in Conegliano (Italy). She is a member of the Cantori Professionisti d’Italia association.

Valentina Valente is founder and editor of the Publishing House Analogon: Italian book editions of selected works by the English musicologist Eric Sams, the Italian translation of significant English, American and German texts on the history and aesthetics of German Lied (among the authors: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John C. Tibbetts), and original essays on Lied, Music, Biography, Literature, Poetry.

She has recorded for Sony, Bongiovanni, Fonit Cetra, Warner Fonit, Arts, Cyprès, Stradivarius.

Valentina Valente teaches Voice training and, together with Erik Battaglia, Lied Repertoire for singers and pianists (duo voice and piano) at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo.

● ALBAN BERG (1885-1935):

Lied der Lulu (1937) (aus Lulu)

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Stefan Anton Reck, conductor Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo (2001)

● JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897):

Am Sonntag Morgen (op. 49 n. 1 – 1868) (ital, transl. Heyse)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Unbewegte laue Luft (op. 57 n. 8 – 1871) (G. F. Daumer)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Lerchengesang (op. 70 n. 2 – by 1877) (Karl August Candidus)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Sommerabend (Dämmernd liegt der Sommerabend) (op. 85 n. 1 – 1878) (Heinrich Heine)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Mondenschein (op. 85 n. 2 - 1878) (Heinrich Heine)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
In Waldeseinsamkeit (op. 85 n. 6 – 1878) (Karl von Lemcke)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Es schauen die Blumen alle (op. 96 n. 3, 1886) (Heinrich Heine)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (op. 105 n. 2 -1886) (Hermann von Lingg)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Meine Lieder (op. 106 n. 4 -1888) (Adolf Frey)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
An die Stolze (op. 107 n. 1 – 1886) (Paul Flemming)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Salamander (op. 107 n. 2 – 1888) (Karl von Lemcke)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Das Mädchen spricht (op. 107 n. 3 – 1886) (Otto Friedrich Gruppe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)

● FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866-1924):

Die Spröde (frammento, 1920) (J. W. Goethe)	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (2007)
Die Bekehrte (1921) (J. W. Goethe)	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (2007)

● PIOTR ILIC CIAIKOVSKI (1840-1893):

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (op. 6 n. 6) (Russian from J. W. Goethe)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)

● LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA (1904-1975):

Goethe Lieder per voce femminile e tre clarinetti
- In tausend Formen magst du dich verstecken	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)
- Die Sonne kommt!	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)
- Lass deinen süssen Rubinenmund	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)
- Möge Wasser	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)
- Der Spiegel sagt mir: ich bin schön!	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)
- Kaum dass ich dich wieder habe	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)
- Ist’s möglich, dass ich, Liebchen, dich kose	WMA	Sergio Delmastro, Alessandra Masiello, Paolo Casiraghi, clarinets (2007)

● HANNS EISLER (1898-1962):

Goethe-fragment (Von Wolken streifenhaft befangen)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)

● EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907):

Zur Rosenzeit (op. 48 n. 5) (J. W. Goethe)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)

● CHARLES IVES (1874-1954):

Ilmenau (1902) (J. W. Goethe)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (1998)

● FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847):

Suleika (Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen) (J. W. Goethe)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)

● WILHELM PETERSEN (1890-1957):

Lied der Suleika (Der Spiegel sagt mir) (J. W. Goethe)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)

● FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963):

Le bestiaire (1919) (Guillaume Apollinaire)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
1. Le Dromadaire
2. La Chèvre du Thibet
3. La Sauterelle
4. Le Dauphin
5. L’Ecrevisse
6. La Carpe

● SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943):

Molitva (da Goethe, op. 8 n. 6)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)
6 Songs op. 38
- Noch’yu v sadu u menya (A. Isaakian/ A. Blok)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)
- K ney (A. Biely)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)
- Margaritki (I. Severyanin)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)
- Krїsolov (V. Bryusov)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)
- Son (F. Sologub)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)
- Au! (K. Balmont)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995-96)

● ARIBERT REIMANN (1936):

Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Gabriela Mistral (1959) (Testo tedesco di Albert Theile)
- Besessenheit	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- Scham	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- Ekstase	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
Kinderlieder (1961) (Werner Reinart)
- wo ist der vater	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- der sommer ist fortgeflogen	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- willst du reiten	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- die schlange ist gestorben	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- halte den stein an das ohr	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- gib mir den apfel	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- mit meinem zeigefinger	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
- schlaf kind	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
Impression IV (1961) (E.E.Cummings)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)

● JOAQUIN RODRIGO (1901-1999):

Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios (Inspirados en musica espanola del siglo XVI)		Erik Battaglia, piano (1998)
1. Con qué la lavare?	MP3
2. Vos me matàsteis	MP3
3. De dònde venìs, amore?	MP3
4. De los àlamos vengo, madre	MP3

● ERIK SATIE (1866-1925):

Ludions (Léon-Paul Fargue)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Air du rat
Spleen
La grenouille américaine
Air du poète
Chanson du chat

● OTHMAR SCHOECK (1886-1957):

An des lust’gen Brunnen Rands (J.W.Goethe)

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Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)

● ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874-1951):

Deinem Blick mich zu bequemen (J.W.Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 (1914) (Otto Erich Hartleben, from the french by Albert Giraud)		Mdi ensemble Yoichi Sugiyama, conductor (2010)
1. Mondestrunken	MP3
2. Colombine	MP3
3. Der Dandy	MP3
4. Eine blasse Wäscherin	MP3
5. Valse de Chopin	MP3
6. Madonna	MP3
7. Der kranker Mond	MP3
8. Nacht	MP3
9. Gebet an Pierrot	MP3
10. Raub	MP3
11. Rote Messe	MP3
12. Galgenlied	MP3
13. Enthauptung	MP3
14. Die Kreuze	MP3
15. Heimweh	MP3
16. Gemeinheit	MP3
17. Parodie	MP3
18. Der Mondfleck	MP3
19. Serenade	MP3
20. Heimfahrt	MP3
21. O alter Duft	MP3

● FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828):

Heidenröslein (D257) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Der König in Thule (D367) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (3rd vers. D481 – 1816) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2010)
Nachtviolen (D752 – 1822) (Johann Mayrhofer)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Gretchens Bitte (1817-18/compl. Britten 1939) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (D877 – 1826) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2010)

● ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856):

Lied der Suleika (op. 25 n. 9) (Marianne von Willemer/J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
Stille Tränen (op. 35 n. 10) (Justinus Kerner)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1998)
Er ist’s (op. 79 n. 24) (Eduard Mörike)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1998)
Meine Rose (op. 90 n. 2) (Nicolaus Lenau)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1998)
Requiem (op. 90, n. 7) (Latin text in Follen, trans. Anon.)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1998)

● GASPARE SPONTINI (1774-1851):

Mignon (1830) (J. W. Goethe)

WMA

Erik Battaglia, piano (2007)

● RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949):

Freundliche Vision (op. 48 n. 1 – 1900) (Otto Julius Bierbaum)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Wer wird von der Welt verlangen (op. 67, n. 4) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Hab’ich euch denn je geraten (op. 67, n. 5) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Wanderers Gemütsruhe (op. 67, n. 6) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
An die Nacht (op. 68, n. 1) (Clemens Brentano)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden (op. 68, n. 2) (Clemens Brentano)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Säusle, liebe Myrthe (op. 68, n. 3) (Clemens Brentano)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Als mir dein Lied erklang (op. 68, n. 4) (Clemens Brentano)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Amor (op. 68, n. 5) (Clemens Brentano)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)
Vier letzte Lieder (1948)
Frühling (Hesse)	MP3	Stefan Anton Reck, conductor Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato “Transilvania” (1999)
September (Hesse)	MP3	Stefan Anton Reck, conductor Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato “Transilvania” (1999)
Beim Schlafengehn (Hesse)	MP3	Stefan Anton Reck, conductor Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato “Transilvania” (1999)
Im Abendrot (Eichendorff)	MP3	Stefan Anton Reck, conductor Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato “Transilvania” (1999)
Malven (1948) (Betty Knobel)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1999)

● GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901):

Perduta ho la pace (1838) (J. W. Goethe trans. L. Balestri)	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (2007)	Download score
Deh, Pietoso, oh Addolorata (1838) (J. W. Goethe trans. L. Balestri)	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (2007)
Chi i bei dì m’adduce ancora (1842) (J. W. Goethe trans. L. Balestri)	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (2007)

● ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741):

Sposa, son disprezzata

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Mark Foster, conductor Orchestre Philarmonique de Caen

● ANTON WEBERN (1883-1945):

Der Spiegel sagt mir, fragment (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2006)
Gleich und Gleich (op. 12, n. 4) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)

● HUGO WOLF (1860-1903):

Morgentau (1877) (Albert Reinhold)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Die Nacht (1880) (Joseph von Eichendorff)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Wiegenlied im Sommer (1882) (Robert Reinick)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Mausfallen-Sprüchlein (1882) (Eduard Mörike)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Vier Lieder der Mignon (1888) (J. W. Goethe)
Heiss mich nicht reden	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
So lasst mich scheinen	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Gleich und Gleich (1888) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Nimmersatte Liebe (1888) (Eduard Mörike)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Die Spröde (1889) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Die Bekehrte (1889) (J. W. Goethe)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)

● ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI (1876-1948):

4 Rispetti op. 11 (1902)
Un verde praticello senza piante	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Jo dei saluti ve ne mando mille	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
E tanto c’è pericol ch’io ti lasci	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
O sì che non sapevo sospirare	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
4 Rispetti op. 12 (1902)
Quando ti vidi a quel canto apparire	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
O guarda, guarda quel nobile augello	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Angiolo delicato fresco e bello	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Sia benedetto chi fece lo mondo!	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Il Canzoniere Italiano op.17 (1936, su versi popolari toscani)
La vedovella	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
M’è stato regalato tre viole	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Giovanottino, il bello andar che hai	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Ninna Nanna, la malcontenta	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
S’io non son bella la vostro paragone	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Preghiera: Io vado a letto con una croce in petto	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Mamma, non mi mandate fuori sola	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Dimmelo, Nino mio, come facesti	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Come tu mi fai rabbia quando passi	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
L’addio: M’è stato detto che te ne vuoi ire	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (1997)
Vai in buon’ora, o viso delicato	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
La lontananza: E questa valle mi par rabbuiata	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
O miei sospiri, andate ove vi mando	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Il ritorno: L’è rivenuto il fior di primavera	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Io mi credeva che tu fossi morto	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Giovanottino che passi per via	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Vo fa’ na palazzina alla marina	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Dio ti facesse star tanto digiuno	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Dimmi, bellino, com’io ho da fare	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Preghiera: Quando a letto vo la sera	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Quando sarà quel benedetto giorno	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Avevo una compagna sola sola	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Oggi sposa il mio ben, che amavo tanto	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1996)
Preghiera: Lunga distesa mi pongo nel letto	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
Preghiera: Spirito Santo, entrate nel mio cuore	WMA	Erik Battaglia, piano (1995)
● ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (1871-1942):
Sommer (op. 27 n. 2) (Kalidasa)	MP3	Erik Battaglia, piano (2002)
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