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~The "Glass Shatterers!" series focuses on sopranos who sustain High F, or sing higher.

Bellini: I PURITANI, Vieni al tempio & Act One finale, Vienna 2010 High F

THE SONGBIRD: Born in 1977 in Palermo, Desirée Rancatore studied violin and piano before studying singing with her mother at the age of 16 and later in Rome. In 1996, at the age of 19 she debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Barbarina, and returned in following seasons for Blonde (1997, 1998), Mozart's Great Mass in C minor (2000), and other roles and concerts. In 1998, she sang her first Olympia in Palermo, a role she performed frequently in London, Zürich, Rome, Turin, Parma, Toulouse, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Vienna, and Orange. Rancatore has sung nearly all of the high coloratura roles in the standard repertoire, and has performed in countless venues on across the globe. Of particular note was the gala reopening of La Scala in Milan, where she sang the role of Semele in Salieri's "Europa riconosciuta," conducted by Riccardo Muti.

THE MUSIC: "I puritani" was Bellini's last opera. It premiered in Paris in January 1835, and Bellini died in September 1835 at the age of 33. It was tremendously successful and the opera was performed regularly throughout Europe and in New York until the early 1900s. It went mostly dormant until it caught the public's attention during the bel canto revival ignited by Maria Callas and carried forward by Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, Edita Gruberova, and others. Elvira is one of Bellini's most mentally delicate creatures, and we first see her breakdown at the end of Act One. Wrongly believing her love Arturo has betrayed her, she becomes inert and sings the emotional "Vieni al tempio" over the ensemble. Rancatore interpolates a sustained High F over the final bars. Obviously, sopranos rarely dare this feat. I was lucky to have heard Eglise Gutierrez pull off this trick brilliantly in Seattle in 2008.