Biography

Anna Bonitatibus, a native of Basilicata in Italy, made her debut at La Scala Milan in 1999 in Don Giovanni under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Since then her interpretations have included over fifty operatic titles, covering early baroque to bel canto repertoire and collaborating with all the major conductors and directors such as Ivor Bolton, Sir Antonio Pappano, René Jacobs, William Christie, Myung Whung Chung, Franz Welser-Möst, Roberto Abbado, Alain Altinoglu, Marc Minkowski and Teodor Currentzis.
 
From her first recording, Vivaldi’s La Griselda made in 1992, Anna Bonitatibus distinguished herself through the operas of the baroque period, Neapolitan opera buffa and French repertoire. Thanks to her performances of familiar works by Mozart, Handel and Rossini, she has performed on all Europe’s leading stages and in concert halls worldwide. Her en travesti roles, or “trousers roles”, deserve a special mention and as the embodiment of Cherubino, she has become one of the most acclaimed performers of Mozart.
 
Among her many award-winning recordings, Anna Bonitatibus received the International Opera Award in 2015 for her disc Semiramide, la Signora regale – a variety of musical gems discovered by herself. In 2016, Bonitatibus took a selection of songs from this album on tour with Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704, performing in concert halls in Baden-Baden, Essen and at Wigmore Hall in London, where she returned in 2018, 2021 and 2022 for Italian song recitals.
Her last CD with the Munich Rundfunkorchester, en travesti, which features so-called “trousers roles”, also received great critical acclaim.   

Highlights of the past seasons include her debut at the Opéra National de Bordeaux as Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte under the baton of Marc Minkowski, Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro at Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Cecilio/Lucio Silla at Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, Il Destino/La Calisto at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and Teatro Real de Madrid, Sesto/La Clemenza di Tito in Warsaw and at Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège, Agrippina and her role debut as Penelope in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at The Grange Festival, Handel’s Ottone in Moscow, Giunone/Ercole amante at Opéra Comique Paris, as well as the title role of Donizetti’s Enrico di Borgogna in Bergamo, Carmen in Madrid, and Riccardo Broschi’s Merope at the Innsbrucker Festwochen. Most recently, she sang the role of Licida in Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade at Zürich Opera, Idamante/Idomeneo at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and embodied the title role in Agrippina at the Bavarian State Opera as well as Hamburg State Opera with great success.

In the concert field, she was a guest at London’s Wigmore Hall, in Cleveland, Helsinki, Bologna, Pesaro, Parma, Barcelona, Potsdam, and Linz, as well as at the Aids Opera Gala in Bonn, the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and the Händel Festival in Karlsruhe.

Engagements in the season 2022/23 include concerts in Boston with Rinaldo Alessandrini, European concert tours with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem and as Ruggiero/Alcina with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski, as well as her return to London’s Wigmore Hall for a recital.

Furthermore, she will perform the title role in Händel’s Xerxes in a new production as well as the role of Matilda in a concert performance of Lotario, both as part of the Halle Händel Festival and under the baton of Attilio Cremonesi.

Anna Bonitatibus is the recipient of the 2023 Händel Prize of the city of Halle, honouring her longstanding interpretations of Händel’s music, as well as her passionate dedication leading to performances also of lesser known works.

Management

General Management world wide, except Spain

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821

Repertoire

 

Repertoire Opera

Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi  Romeo
  Norma Adalgisa
Cavalli Ercole amante Giunone
  La Calisto Diana
    Destino
  La Didone Didone
Cimarosa Gli Orazi e i Curiazi   
  Il Marito disperato  
  L'Olimpiade  
Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia Maffio Orsini
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice Orfeo
  Orphée et Euridice Berlioz/Viardot version 1854)
Gounod Faust Siebel
  Roméo et Juliette Stéphano
  Sapho  
Händel Agrippina Agrippina
    Nerone
  Alcina Ruggiero
  Deidamia Ulisse
  Giulio Cesare Sesto
  Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Piacere
  Orlando Medoro
  Radamisto Tigrane
  Tamerlano Irene
  Tolomeo Elisa
Haydn Orlando paladino Alcina
Marazzolli Dal Male il Bene  
Mascagni L’amico Fritz Beppe
Massenet Don Quichotte Dulcinée
  Werther Charlotte
Mayr Ginevra di Scozia Ariodante
Menotti The Medium  
Monteverdi Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Penelope
  L’Orfeo Messaggiera
    Proserpina
Mozart Così fan tutte Dorabella
  Don Giovanni Zerlina
  Idomeneo Idamante
  La clemenza di Tito Sesto
  Le nozze di Figaro Cherubino
  Mitridate, re di Ponto Sifare
Offenbach Les contes d’Hoffmann Nicklausse
Paisiello La Molinara  
Pavesio Ser Marcantonio  
Pergolesi Il Flaminio  
  L’Olimpiade  
Puccini Il Trittico  
Purcell Dido & Eneas  
Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges L’enfant
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Rosina
  Il viaggio a Reims Melibea
  La Cenerentola Angelina
  Le Comte Ory Isolier
  L’Italiana in Algeri Isabella
  Moïse et Pharaon Synaide
  Tancredi Tancredi
Soler Una cosa rara  
Strauss, R. Ariadne auf Naxos Komponist
Verdi Falstaff  
  Nabucco  
  Oberto conte di San Bonifacio  
Vivaldi Il Tamerlano/Bajazet  
  La Griselda  
 

Repertoire Concert

Beethoven IX Symphony in Rem, op.125
  Messa in DO M, op.86
Cavalli Juliette,Symphonie dramatique op.17
Franck Rédemption, Poème Symphonique
  Romanze, Voce e pianoforte
Händel Cantate
Haydn Arianna a Nasso
Haydn J.M. Requiem in DO m.
Mozart Arie da concerto
  Davide penitente K 469
  Messa in DO m K 427
  Requiem K 626
  Spatzen-Messe K220
  Vesperae solemnes de confessore K339
Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Rossini Giovanna d’Arco
  Giunone
  Pechées de vieillesse
  Petite Messe Solennelle
  Stabat Mater
Scarlatti La Vergine de’ dolori
Schubert Messa in SIb M. D.324
Schumann Lieder
Stravinsky Les Noces
Verdi Requiem
  Romanze, Voce e Pianoforte
Vivaldi Andromeda liberata
  Beatus Vir
  Gloria RV 588 & RV 589
  La Senna festeggiante
  Mottetto RV 626 & RV629
Malibran, Garcia, Colbran, Crescentini, Spontini, Schubert, Bachelet, de Falla, Poulenc, Gershwin, Villa Lobos, Respighi Mélodies, Arias, Cantate, Romanze, Canzoni, Lieder, Songs, Ariette, Canciones, Cantates, Liriche

Discography

"en travesti"
Erschienen Februar 2018 bei BRKlassik

Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Corrado Rovaris

Anna Bonitatibus

"Semiramide, La Signora Regale"
Erschienen Juni 2014 bei DHM

Accademia degli Astrusi
La Stagione Armonica
Federico Ferri

Anna Bonitatibus

Marianna Martines "La Tempesta"
Erschienen Februar 2015 bei DHM

La Floridiana
Nicoleta Paraschivescu

Annna Bonitatibus

Simon Mayr "Ginevra di Scozia"
Erschienen Juni 2014 bei Oehms Classics

Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Coro maschile del Heinrich-Schütz-Ensemble Vornbach
George Petrou

Papatanasiu / Bonitatibus / Zeffiri / Hinterdobler / Iranyi / Cilic / Mischok

"Un Rendez-Vous"
Erschienen September 2010 bei RCA/Sony

Marco Marzocchi (Pianoforte)
Anna Bonitatibus

Joseph Haydn "L'infedeltà costante"
Erschienen Februar 2008 bei DHM/Sony BMG

Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis

Anna Bonitatibus

Georg Friedrich Händel "Un'Opera Immaginaria"
Erschienen 2009 bei Virgin Classics

The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock

DiDonato / Dessay / Cencic / Bostridge / von Otter / Jaroussky / Genaux / Blythe / Daniels / Auger / McGreey / Custer / Bonitatibus

The complete Discography:

www.annabonitatibus.com/recordings/cd/

News

Kick-off of the Händelfestspiele Halle
The audience of Halle's Händelfestspiele can look forward to an exciting festival programme! This year's festival will open with the premiere of the opera Serse (Xerxes) on May 26, 2023. The new staging of Händel's furious late work (directing: Louisa Proske) is conducted by Attilio Cremonesi, artistic director of the festival orchestra, and, for the first time, Händel and Baroque expert Anna Bonitatibus can be seen and heard in the title role as King Serse.

Following the premiere performance, Anna will be awarded the 
2023 Händel Prize of the city of Halle.
 
Further performances of Serse: 28.05. sowie 03./11.06.2023 

If you would like to experience the two artists together once more, you will have the chance to do so on June 9.
On this evening there will be a single concert performance of the opera Lotario, Attilio Cremonesi again conducting the Festival Orchestra and Anna Bonitatibus singing the role of Matilda.

Händel-Preis Halle 2023!
Anna Bonitatibus receives the 2023 Händel Prize of the city of Halle. The Stiftung Händel-Haus says the decision honours "her infinite enthusiasm, with which she for years has been interpreting Händel's music, as well as her passionate dedication leading to performances also of lesser known works".

The prize will be awarded to Anna during the Händel Festival in 2023, where she is involved in two productions. On one hand she will sing the title role in the festival production Xerxes, on the other the role of Matilda in a concert performance of the opera Lotario. Bravissima Anna!

Press

 

Alcina / Teatro alla Scala / 11.02.24 /
connessiallopera.it


"Il Ruggiero en travesti di Anna Bonitatibus ottiene ovazioni interminabili." 
 

Il barbiere di Siviglia / Opéra de Tours / 05.02.20 / forumopera.com


"Une Rosine royale et humble à la fois." 

Il barbiere di Siviglia / Opéra de Tours / 04.02.20 / olyrix.com


"propose une Rosine corsée, ample, longue, aisée" 

Il barbiere di Siviglia / Opéra de Tours / 01.02.20 / lanouvellerepublique.fr


"se jouant des cascades du Bel Canto avec une grâce extrême" 

Merope / Innsbrucker Festwochen / 17.08.19 / apemusicale.it


"che è vocalista impagabile per vellutata omogeneità timbrica, vocalizzazione agiata" 

Merope / Innsbrucker Festwochen / 15.08.19 / opern-kritik.de


"Großartig ist Anna Bonitatibus als sehr subtile, fein singende, geradezu introvertierte Merope" 

La Clemenza di Tito / Opéra Royal de Wallonie- Liège / 31.05.19 / resmusica.com


"splendide tant par le timbre que par l'agilité vocale, tant par l'implication dramatique que par le large éventail de nuances" 

La Clemenza di Tito / Opéra Royal de Wallonie- Liège / 22.05.19 / bachtrack.com


"quelle maîtrise vocale, quelle richesse de couleurs et de nuances, quel engagement dramatique!" 

La Clemenza di Tito / Opéra Royal de Wallonie- Liège / 18.05.19 / operatraveller.com


"surely the finest interpreter of the role today" 

Agrippina / The Grange Festival / 11.06.18 /
theguardian.com


"Anna Bonitatibus is glorious in the title role" 

Agrippina / The Grange Festival / 11.06.18 /
independent.com


"the title role is incarnated to perfection" 

CD: en travesti / April 2018 / Oper! Das Magazin


"eine bezaubernde, wunderschöne Stimme"
"Virtuous ziselierte Koloraturen? Bitteschön!" 

CD: en travesti / 29.03.18 / Süddeutsche Zeitung

 
"mit perfekten Koloraturen, fein modulierten Verzierungen und differenziertem Ausdruck" 

CD: en travesti / 21.02.18 / olyrix.com


"Anna Bonitatibus allie deux grandes qualités, rarement conciliées" 

La clemenza di Tito / Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe / 17.07.17 / pressreader.com


"einfach zum Niederknien" 

Concert, Fondazione Rossini / Auditorium Pedrotti Pesaro / 10.06.17 / apemusicale.it


"un' interpretazione d'altissimo profilo" 

Heroinen der Antike / Christuskirche am Mühlburger Tor Karlsruhe / 27.02.17 / anaclase.com


"nuances infiniment sensible" 

Heroinen der Antike / Christuskirche am Mühlburger Tor Karlsruhe / 27.02.17 / bachtrack.com


"a delight to hear her" 

Le nozze di Figaro / Gran Teatre del Liceu / 13.11.16 / operatraveller.com


 "she really knows how to bring this music to life" 

Semiramide / Wigmore Hall / 05.10.16 / bachtrack.com 
 

"Ms Bonitatibus was in terrific form" 

Semiramide, La Signora Regale / Philharmonie Essen / 03.10.16 / bachtrack.com


 "Stärke und Interpretationskennung" 

Semiramide, La Signora Regale / Philharmonie Essen / 03.10.16 / omm.de


 "präsentiert sich an diesem Abend nicht nur stimmlich als Königin " 
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