in memory of Cathy Berberian at Florence's Maggio Musicale, Milan's La Scala, and Teatro Communale in Bologna. In 1988 she sang Berio's Folksongs with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and with the Ensemble InterContemporain. Berio wrote for Bacelli the role of Marina in his opera Outis. At the 1999 Salzburg Festival she sang the role of Orvid in the world premiere of Berio's Cronaca delluogo and also, as part of the Pollini Project, Berio's Altra voce for soprano and flute and Monteverdi madrigals accompanied by Maurizio Pollini. This year she has sung her first Isabella in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri with Netherlands Opera. At Florence's Maggio Musicale 2000 she sang Ottavia in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. Future engagements take her to the Maggio Musicale 2001 in Tamerlano with Bolton, to the Theatre des Champs-Elysees as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro under Rene Jacobs, and to the Berlin Philharmonic for L'Enfant et les sortileges under Simon Rattle. Ms. Bacelli's recordings include Mozart's Lafinta giardiniera for Teldec, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro for Sony Classical, and Berio's Folksongs for the Bottega Discantica label. Ms. Bacelli appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges in November 1996.
Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly) Making her Tanglewood debut this evening, Italian-born mezzo-soprano Bernadette Manca di Nissa studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and with private teachers. She has performed at such major international venues and festivals as La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Paris Opera, Covent Garden in London, the Communale in Bologna, the Salzburg Festival, the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, the Wiesbaden Festival, the San Carlo in Naples, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, and Rome Opera. She has appeared with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Cham- ber Orchestra of Europe, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Italian RAJ, and German, Austrian, Swiss, and Icelandic radio, among others. Ms. Manca di Nissa has worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, John Eliot Gardiner, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Christopher Hogwood, Riccardo Muti, and Antonio Pappano. Although she concentrated her studies on Rossini and on Baroque music, her repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the twentieth century, including world premieres of works by Luigi Nono, works by Handel, Jommelli, Gluck, Salieri, and Rossini, and German Lieder. In 1989 she won the coveted Italian critics' award for her role in Gluck's Orfeo at La Scala. Recordings include a live performance of Pergolesi's Lofrate 'nnamorato at La Scala under Muti and Puccini's Suor Angelica with Pappano and the Phil- harmonia Orchestra for EMI; Rossini's Tancredi in her 1982 recording debut in a live perform- ance from La Fenice, Rossini's La gazza ladra with the RAI Turin Orchestra, and Mistress Quickly in Falstaff'with the La Scala Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Riccardo Muti on Sony; and Donizetti's Anna Bolena with Welsh Opera conducted by Richard Bonynge, Stra- vinsky's Pulcinella with Hogwood and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and two Mozart Masses with the English Chamber Orchestra and Stephen Cleobury for Decca. Home video releases include Pergolesi's Lofrate nnamorato on Videorai and Rossini's Tancredi on RCA Victor Red Seal.
Gregory Turay (Fenton)
American tenor Gregory Turay made several important debuts this past season; in one of those, he created the role of Rodolpho in William Bol- com's A Viewfrom the Bridge for his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut. He also made his Welsh National Opera debut, his European continental debut with Deutsche Oper Berlin, and his European recital debut at the Edinburgh Festival. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Lucia di Lammermoor and gave recitals in Washington, D.C., and Lexington, Ken- tucky. Mr. Turay was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artists Development Program for three seasons and made his Met debut in 1997 as Brighella in Ari-
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