The
Brazilian soprano Annette Celine began her musical studies with her mother, Felicja
Blumental. She studied voice in Milan with Mercedes Lloport and Elvira de Hidalgo.
She made her debut at the Teatro Reggio di Parma in a programme of Mozart concert
arias. Her appearances have included the Barcelona, Taomina and Camden (London)
Festivals, the Stanford University Mozart Festival and the international Festival
de Musica, Torroella de Montgri, Spain. Annette Celine has been soloist with Belgian
Radio in Haydn's Nelson Mass and Bruckner's Te Deum. In France she has sung in
the Mozart and Fauré Requiems, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the Verdi Requiem
under conductor Pierre Dervaux. She recorded Verdi's Luisa Miller for Decca with
Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballé. |