Gioconda Vessichelli
Gioconda Vessichelli | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Rome, Italy |
| Genres | Opera, pop, fusion, Bollywood, BollywoOpera |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, composer, lyricist, conductor, director, actress, dancer |
Gioconda Vessichelli is an Italian opera singer and actress.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Gioconda is the inventor and pioneer of BollywoOPERA style.[2] She obtained two degrees with maximum marks from the University of Music and Performing Arts "Santa Cecilia" in Rome (Italy). Gioconda Vessichelli's song "Der se Aana jaldi jaana" hit 10 millions views in youtube in 2023, her remake being arranged by The Grammy award winner programmer Giampaolo Pasquile in UK. In 2024 her collaboration with the legendary singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan takes place, where Gioconda's ductility and extreme knowledge of music is able to make a first time ever fusion between qawalis and opera for the song "MOHABBAT KYA HAIN".[3] She sang in the Bollywood movie Prague in 2013, and gave her voice for the Bollywood movie Mary Kom in "Ziddi dil" along with Vishal Dadlani. On 19 May 2017 her song "Itni si baat hai" was released by Asia's biggest label, T-SERIES. On 14 February a further release came with the same label, "That's amore", whose concept and typical gestural expressiveness soon became viral right across India, so that the song soon hit more than one million views. In 2023 one of the biggest Indian lebel, ZEE MUSIC, wanted her voice for the song "Hey Shubh karta" sung by the eclectic Gioconda's voice in Sanskrit and Hindi. In December 2019 her revolutionary song "Contigo Bom Bom" was released, which led to her introducing raggaeton in India for the first time ever, and the "Bom Bom Challenge " soon got popular in social media. On 20 December 2014 the song "Thodi Daaru" was released featuring Mika Singh.[4] Gioconda has performed live on a number of occasions resulting in the first-ever recorded fusion between opera and classical Hindi music with artists such as Grammy Award winner Sukhwinder Singh, Sajid Wajid, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mika Singh, Hari Haran, Loy Mendoza, Gino Banks, Niladri Kumar, Silvaganesha, and in festivals and auditoriums such as the Nehru Centre[20] in Mumbai, the Antewerpen State Theatre Belgium, the City of Chicago, and also the Lavasa Festival,[5] etc. On 31 March 2016 her international video "We are one" in which she sings and acts together with Anoop Jalota for world peace was launched by India's Prime Minister in Delhi. She was the only international member of the jury of Miss India Worldwide, held in 2014 in Pune, in which she also performed the song "Pyar Hua Iqraar" in an opera version of her own creation. She was an international judge along with Indian singer Amruta Fadnavis for "The Queen of Mashups" contest.[6] On 2 December 2017 she is as well International judge along with Bappi Lahiri and Meenakshi Seshadri at the Zeetv International Indian Icon talent competition in Chicago[7] and on 25 December 2017 she is an international judge at Asia's biggest music festival, "Mood Indigo", along with Amit Trivedi. In January 2018 she does lectures on music along with her live examples of singing and performing techniques for the great movie director Subhash Ghai's International School of film and music "Whistlingwoods" together with singer Ankit Tiwari and other exponents of the Bollywood industry."Fear Curbs Your Inner Talent" said Composer-Singer Ankit Tiwari at the 5th Veda Cultural Workshop at Whistling Woods International - INDIAN NEWS & TIMES : INDIAN NEWS & TIMES
She is in the annual book of Italian opera singers for having sung in the first world edition of contemporary opera at "Teatro comunale di Modena", broadcast on RAI's (Italy's radio and television state company) radio channels.[8] Gioconda is the first singer in the premiere world ever of Matteo D'Amico's contemporary opera "Lavinia fuggita".[9] She owns two degrees in opera singing and musicology from Italian conservatory "Santa Cecilia" and the international high school of opera "H.Wolf". Tenor Luciano Pavarotti was her teacher, among other opera singers who selected her as one of their best students. She was selected as best singer at accademia rossiniana in Pesaro and she debuts the role of "Madama cortese" in Rossini's "il viaggio a Reims" with Rof symphonic orchestra at Rossini theatre in Pesaro.[10] She sings again in a Rossini opera at Ercolano during an international opera season in "Il barbiere di Siviglia"[11] and at teatro Politeama opera season in Lecce.[12] After Rossini she debuts "Carmen" by Bizet.[13] Her interpretation of the role "Mimì" in Puccini's "La Boheme" was very positively received.[14]
As early as 2007 she was invited to the "Venice Awards" to sing for composer grammy award winner Ennio Morricone with the programme being broadcast on RAI (Italian State television).[15]
She works with choreographer and director Linsday Kemp and conductor David Haughton for Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's dream" at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and later in teatro Verdi in Pisa and Teatro Goldoni in Livorno.[16]
She has worked with the great conductor Antonio Pappano, currently director of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome.[17]
She is singer and also director in the opera Tosca at the international festival "Quattro notti" in Benevento, and the next year at the same festival she makes her debut as an actress too, and not only as just a singer in "La Vedova Allegra" by Lehar[18] and as actress and singer again, along with legendary soprano Katia Ricciarelli, in "Orfeo all'inferno" by Offenbach at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari[19] as well as in Christmas Carol with choir and orchestra also with the famous violinist Uto Ughi and the famous actor Michele Placido[20] and in Germany she sings not only Italian opera arias but she is also specialized in Lieder at international chamber music academy "H. Wolf".
She supports the women's cause in a Puccini concert with all love opera songs devoted to women,[21] she supports Aids research through a concert in French Polynesia / Tahiti (Papeete) where she is honorary Citizen also aired in radio,[22] as a musicologist she has a deep interest in fusion which has led her to perform in several concerts among which the one in Santa Cecilia Auditorium in Rome with the Italian jazz man Renzo Arbore and with the great conductor Antonio Pappano.[23]
She was the first real opera singer in the world to make a fusion between opera and Hindi music and for that, she received the Indian Women Award the first time ever given to a non-Indian woman.[24]
She has received various invitations from the Bollywood industry to give not only her voice but also her presence as a special Western opera actress in Bollywood movies, but up to now, she is only focused on music. Recently she has accepted to feature as a dancer, together with Mika Singh and Millind Gaba, in a special Latino passionate style in Dilbagh Singh's video "Bottoms up" released in April 2015.[25] She is involved in several philanthropic projects and for that she got the noble chivalric title of "Dame" from Royal House.[26] She won the Norman International Academy medal for her artistic career, and she got the honorary membership by several cultural Institutions as she started singing opera as a child prodigy. She sings in the following 12 languages: Italian, English, Hindi, Punjabi, French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Russian, Latin, and Portuguese. She can also speak seven languages (English, Hindi, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese). Thanks to her sparkling personality she has been invited in many important tv shows all over the world.[27]
Television
[edit]| Television | Show | Year |
| Starbharat | mika Di vohti[28][29] | 2022 |
| NETFLIX | Kapil Sharma's comedy show "I am not done yet"[30][31][non-primary source needed] | 2022 |
| ABC TV | Diario[32] | 2022 |
| BM TV | Bruno Masi show[33] | 2022 |
| Ñanduti | Radio TV[34] | 2022 |
| ZEE TV | Judge at 3iii[35] | 2017 |
| B4U | Hang Out[36] | 2014 |
| RAI 2 | Italian Venice Awards[37] | 2007 |
Roles
[edit]| Year | Role | |
| 2020 | "Kaise Ho Tum?"[38] | |
| 2020 | "Die Zauberflöte" | Pamina |
| 2019 | "The Marriage of Figaro" | Susanna |
| 2018 | "Faust" | Marguerite |
| 2017 | "That's amore"[39] | |
| 2017 | "Le siège de Corinthe" | Pamira |
| 2016 | "Pagliacci" | Nedda |
| 2015 | "Turandot" | Liù |
| 2015 | "The Ones Below"[40] | |
| 2014 | "Madama Butterlfly" | Chocho San |
| 2013 | "La forza del destino" | Leonora[41] |
| 2013 | "Tum Hi Ho"[42] | |
| 2012 | "La Traviata" | Violetta |
| 2011 | "Bom"[43] | |
| 2011 | "Carmen" | Micaela[44] |
| 2010 | "Tosca" | Floria[45] |
| 2009 | "La bohème" | Mimì[46] |
| 2008 | "La vedova allegra" | Anna Glavari[47] |
| 2007 | "Orfeo all'inferno" | Giunone[48] |
| 2006 | "Il barbiere di Siviglia" | Berta[49] |
| 2005 | "Così fan tutte" | Fiordiligi |
| 2004 | "Il viaggio a Reims" | Madama Cortese[50] |
| 2004 | "Lavinia fuggita"[51] | Angelica[52] |
| 2003 | "A Midsummer's Night Dream" | Helena |
Albums
[edit]| Year | Album | Song Title | Singer | composer | Label | |
| 2024 | After Shower | "After Shower" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2024 | Magic Butterfly | "Magic Butterfly" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2024 | All I need is your Lies | "All I need is your Lies" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2024 | Kaise ho | "Kaise ho" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2023 | Giocondamente | MENTE GIOCONDA | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2023 | Hey shubh karta | "Ganesh Song" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | UNIVERSAL | |
| 2023 | Ganesh Song | "Ganesh Song" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ZEE music | |
| 2023 | Rab mil gaya | "Rab mil gaya" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2023 | Der Se Aaana | "Der Se Aaana" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli/Giampaolo Pasquile | ||
| 2023 | Subha hone na de in BollywoOPERA style | "Subha hone na de in BollywoOPERA style" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2023 | Fusion Indian ragas | "Fusion Indian ragas" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2023 | Mis noches sin ti | "Mis noches sin ti" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2023 | Tus Lagrimas | "Tus Lagrimas" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2022 | Amami Alfredo! Isq maharaba | "Amami Alfredo! Isq maharaba" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2022 | The One | "The One" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2022 | Lonely main akela hun | "Lonely main akela hun" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2022 | Zhoom Zhoom | "Zhoom Zhoom" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2021 | Rich Lady's chai | "Rich Lady's chai" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2020 | Meri beat pe baja | "Meri beat pe baja" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2019 | Contigo Bom Bom | "Contigo Bom Bom" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | Music and Sound | |
| 2018 | That's Amore | "That's Amore" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | T-SERIES (company) | |
| 2018 | Laila main Laila tribal | "Laila main Laila tribal" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2017 | Itni Si Baat Hai | "Itni Si Baat Hai" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | T-SERIES (company) | |
| 2015 | Rejoice | "Rejoice" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2016 | pyar I feel my dill | " pyar I feel my dill" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2016 | cliMAX song | "cliMAX song" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2015 | Tum hi ho BollywwoOPERA style | "Tum hi ho BollywwoOPERA style" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2014 | Thodi Daaru (BollywoOPERA) | "Thodi Daaru (BollywoOPERA)" | Gioconda Vessichelli, Mika Singh | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2014 | pyar hua iqrar BollywoOPERA style | "pyar hua iqrar BollywoOPERA style" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2014 | Rang de | "Rang de" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli | ||
| 2013 | OH BABY | "OH BABY" | Gioconda Vessichelli | Gioconda Vessichelli |
Movies in which Gioconda sung
[edit]- 2013 movie "Prague", music composer and singer, song "Touch opera", label Universal
- 2014 "Mary Kom" singer, music composer Sashi Suman, song "Ziddi dil" together with Vishal Dadlani, label ZEE MUSIC
- 2015 "Kahin toh hoga", music director Raaj Aashoo, song "Rabba"
- 2016 "Like a prayer", music director Gioconda Vessichelli, Naveen Kumar label Sony
- 2017 "Itni si baat hai", music composer Gioconda Vessichelli label Tseries
- 2018 "That's amore", music composer concept and video director Gioconda Vessichelli label Tseries
- 2019 "Telephone Call", music composer Ved Sharma.
Writer, Director, Inspiring Speaker
[edit]Gioconda Vessichelli has written and directed La vedova allegra.. Anna debuting in Sannio festival 4 notti e più di Luna piena. She has written lyrics to numerous songs in 5 languages: Italian, Spanish, English, French, Portuguese (many of them released by the Indian biggest label, Tseries). She has won a poetry competition for Unicef with the poem "Negretto negrettino". She has written and codirected with the famous Italian director Mauro Russo "Contigo Bom Bom". She is specialised in writing concepts and creative content also for State Italian Television RAI, as she has 2 degrees with maximum marks from the University of Performing Arts "Santa Cecilia" of Rome (Italy) and she is invited for teaching in workshops in prestigious Universities all over the world, like recently in Subhash Ghai's University In Mumbai "Fifth Veda".[53] She is a 360 degrees artist: in fact she is actress, director and 7 international opera award singer too, and she has been collaborating with grammy award winner artists like Ennio Morricone, directors Dario Fo, Katia Ricciarelli, Linsday Kemp, Luciano Pavarotti, to name a few, both in WRITING creative concepts (for example Federico II kermesse festival where she was also artistic director), both in codirecting. She is invited all over the world as inspiring speaker,[54] panelist,[55] and moderator thanks to her wide, unconventional[56] and eclectic culture and knowledge deriving not only from her 2 University degrees with maximum marks but also from her travels around the world (150 countries visited so far).[57]
Awards
[edit]She is the winner of the following international opera competitions:
- "Anemos, 1998"[58]
- "Napolinova 1999"[59]
- "Alaleona 2000"
- "Mario Lanza 2001"
- "Albanese 2002"
- "Città di Cagli 2005"
- "Leoncavallo 2013".[60]
She is finalist at International Opera Competitions "Rosetum-Scala"[61]
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External links
[edit]- Living people
- Singers from Rome
- Actresses from Rome
- Italian women singers
- Italian opera singers
- Bollywood playback singers
- Italian film actresses
- Italian television actresses
- Italian expatriates in India
- Expatriate musicians in India
- European actresses in India
- Actresses of European descent in Indian films
- 21st-century Italian actresses
- 21st-century Italian singers
- 21st-century Italian women singers