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| Zerlina |
| Soubrette role (also sung by a mezzo-soprano). Betrothed of Masetto, a peasant. |
| Year |
| Artist |
| 1938 |
| Mafalda Favero |
| 1940 |
| Margit Bokor |
| 1943 |
| Licia Albanese |
| 1945 |
| Nadine Conner |
| 1947 |
| Nadine Conner |
| 1948 |
| 1949 |
| Licia Albanese |
| 1952 |
| 1974 |
| Carol Malone |
| 1953 |
| 1978 |
| Ruth Welting |
| 1955 |
| 1959 |
| Pierrette Alarie |
| 1962 |
| 1965 |
| 1968 |
| Jeannette Pilou |
| 1981 sum |
| Pamela South |
| 1984 |
| Margarita Zimmermann |
| 1991 |
| Harolyn Blackwell |
| 1995 |
| Rebecca Evan |
| 1999-2000 |
| San Francisco Opera Zerlina History |
| Barbara Gibson |
| Rosanna Carteri |
| Joshua Hecht |
| Jolanda Meneguzzer |
| 1999-2000 |
| Peggy Kriha Dye |
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| 1999-2000-Anna Netrebko |
| Aria Data Base for Zerlina |
| Act I, Scene IV - 'Batti, batti, o bel Masetto' |
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| Act II, Scene I - 'Vedrai, Carino, Se Sei Buonino' |
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| 1999-2000-Soprano, Anna Netrebko, a current golden girl who can do no wrong with local audiences, proved to be an unusually beguiling Zerlina. She was also an unusually gutsy one, thanks in part to the inclusion of the rarely performed buffo duet in which she ties up Leporello and threatens him./ Review With a gorgeous and fascinatingly dark-toned performance as the peasant girl Zerlina. Her pitch was as laser-perfect as ever, her phrasing if anything more fluid and evocative. The inclusion of Zerlina's duet with Leporello, ``Per queste tue manine,'' usually omitted with good reason, was made more than bearable by Netrebko's spirited rendition./ Review |
| 2006-2007 |
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| Claudia Mahnke's performance as Zerlina was vocally and dramatically fuzzy until it came suddenly into focus with a tender and crisply sung account of "Vedrai carino."/ Review |
| I am not a fan of mezzo-sopranos playing Zerlina, Susannah, and Despina, roles that sound best when sung by a light soprano. Claudia Mahnke is a high mezzo, but her tone is still unsuitably dark. Oddly, she seemed to have a problem at the low end of "Batti, batti" (strike me, strike me), an aria that goes only as low as middle C./ SFCV |