Raquel Pierotti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay where she got her graduation at the National Opera School and made her operatic debut in 1973 as Damigella nuziale in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro. During the next six years she worked in many operatic productions singing Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto as well as in many chamber and symphonic concerts. She won the First Prize in the “Maurice Ravel National Contest” and in the “Artigas - Washington Contest”. In 1979 she moved to Spain. She won the “Plácido Domingo Award” in 1979 and the 2º Grand Prix in 1980 both in the “Francisco Viñas Singing Competition”. In the same year she won the First Prize in the “Mozart Singing Competition” organized by Barcelona’s Mozarteum and the Gold Medal from Radio Nacional de España given to the most promising debutant of the season. In 1980 made her operatic début in Spain at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona as Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. The following year she made her European débuts at the Opera de Paris as Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville, as well as at La Scala, Milan, as Marcellina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Since then she has been a frequent guest at La Scala where she sang Clarice in La pietra del paragone, Smeton in Anna Bolena, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Maddalena in Il viaggio a Reims, Cecilio in Lucio Silla, and Fenena in Nabucco for the 1986/1987 Season Opening Night as well as in the tournées in Berlin, Japan and Bulgaria. On November 2. 1988 she was invited to sing in a concert celebrating the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain Doña Sofía. She has worked with renowned conductors as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Chailly, Julius Rudel, John Eliot Gardiner, Jesús López Cobos, Sir John Pritchard, Alain Lombard, Lorin Maazel... and directors as Giorgio Strehler, Jean Pierre Ponnelle, Eduardo De Filippo, Patrice Chéreau, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Roberto de Simone, Luca Ronconi, Lluis Pasqual, Jérôme Savary, Beni Montresor, Gabriele Lavia, Jorge Lavelli, José Carlos Plaza... She has appeared at most of the well-known opera houses in Italy such as Milan, Rome, Naples, Pesaro, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Genoa, Parma, Palermo and Verona among others as well as outside Italy in Barcelona, Sevilla, Madrid, Vienna, Stuttgart, Munich, Brussels, Geneva, Paris, Lyon, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Montevideo, Mexico, Caracas, Pretoria, Tokyo, Washington... Among her activities are recitals of Spanish and Latin American music as well as “Zarzuela”. She has created the role of "Tatula" from the opera Divinas palabras in the opening season at the Teatro Real, singing with Plácido Domingo. In 1999 she sang La vida breve in Lyon, Grenoble and La Coruña, and El amor brujo and Siete conciones Populares Españolas in Lyon, Palermo, Montevideo, Porto Alegre, Varsaw, Dortmund and Pamplona. In 2000 she sang a concert in Hannover, representing Spain in occasion of the World Fair. On April 2002 and 2004 she sang Babel 46 and L’enfant et le sortilèges at the Teatro Real and Liceo de Barcelona. She sang the role of Mariana in Scala di Milano, Teatro Real and Theathr an der Wien all with Plácido Domingo. In 2004 and 2007 she sang Boris Godunov at Liceo de Barcelona and Teatro Real. In August 2009 she sang the leading role of “La casa de Bernanda Alba”, created by the young Spanish composer Miquel Ortega, in Santander Festival and Perelada Festival. In 2005 she has been member of the jury in the prestigious “Francisco Viñas” and “Manuel Ausensi” singing contests.
Roles
During her career she sang : Sextus and Cornelia ; Siebel ; Cherubino ; Cecilio ; Dorabella ; Zerlina ; Angelina ; Arsace ; Isabella ; Rosina Andromaca ; Maddalena ; Clarice ; Orfeo ; Fidalma ; Leonora ; Adalgisa ; Smeton ; Elisabetta ; Carmen ; Sara ; Romeo ; Agnese ; Giulietta ; Salud and la Abuela ; Ottavia ; Preziosilla ; Meg and Quickly ; Climene ; Suzuki ; Berenice ; Vagans ; Mrs. Slender, Cecilia, Zulima, Aurora, Señá Rita, Mariana, Nurse...
Symphonic Repertoire
Rossini: Stabat Mater, Petite Messe Sollennelle, Argene e Melania and Giovanna D'Arco
