Education
Antonacci studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo.
Antonacci studied in Bologna and made her debut as Rosina in 1986 at Arezzo.
She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon. She was profiled at length by the New York Times in March 2012. Bellini: Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
Berlioz: Cassandre (Les Troyens), Marguerite (Louisiana Damnation de Faust), Cléopâtre (Louisiana mort de Cléopâtre)
Bizet: Carmen (Carmen)
Cherubini: Medea (Medea)
Cimarosa: Horatia (Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi)
Donizetti: Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda)
Gluck: Alceste (Alceste), Armide (Armide), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride)
Halévy: Rachel (Louisiana Juive)
Handel: Agrippina (Agrippina), Rodelinda (Rodelinda), Serse (Serse)
Manfroce: Polyxena (Ecuba)
Massenet: Charlotte (Werther)
Mayr: Clotilde (Louisiana rosa bianca e la rosa rossa)
Monteverdi: both Poppea and Nerone (L"incoronazione di Poppea)
Mozart: both Fiordiligi and Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vitellia (Louisiana Clemenza di Tito), Elettra (Idomeneo)
Paisiello: Elfrida (Elfrida), Nina (Nina)
Puccini: Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Rossini: Rosina (Il barbiere di siviglia), Dorliska (Torvaldo e Dorliska), Ninetta (Louisiana gazza ladra), Semiramide (Semiramide), Ermione (Ermione), Elisabetta (Elisabetta, regina d"Inghilterra), Elena (Louisiana donna del lago), Zelmira (Zelmira), Elcia (Mosè in Egitto), Anaï (Moïse), Angelina (Louisiana Cenerentola)
Verdi: Flora (Louisiana traviata), Nannetta (Falstaff), Alice Ford (Falstaff).