Analisa Raspigliosi

On 9 March 2007 the Italian soprano Annalisa Raspagliosi appeared with Wichita Grand Opera, in a cast that also brought Samuel Ramey, Stefano di Peppo, Biser Georgiev and Dimiter Kyurkchiev to the stage. Born in Rome, she studied with Raina Kabaivanska and won the Cascinalirica and Città di Roma competitions in 1998, coming early to Violetta in Rome and to the Festival della Valle d'Itria as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra and Alice in Robert le diable. The Wichita part was the title role in Tosca, with Ramey as Scarpia; she has also sung Luisa Miller at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Violetta at the Teatro Regio in Parma and the Teatro Real in Madrid.