Gioconda Vessichelli

Gioconda Vessichelli (born in Rome, Italy) is an opera singer. Gioconda is the inventor and pioneer of BollywoOPERA style. She has sung in the Bollywood movie Prague in 2013, and she has given her voice for the Bollywood movie Mary Kom on the song "Ziddi dil" together with Vishal Dadlani.On 19th May 2017 her song "Itni si baat hai" has been released by the label T-series. On 20 December 2014 the song "Thodi Daaru" was released featuring Mika Singh. Gioconda has done live performances as first fusion ever between opera and classical Hindi music with artists of the caliber of Grammy Award winner Sukhwinder Singh, Hari Haran, Gino Banks, Niladri Kumar, Silvaganesha, in festivals and auditoriums like Nehru Centre[20] in Mumbai. She collaborates with Anup Jalota, and many others. On 31 March 2016 her international video "We are one" in which she sings and acts together with Anup Jalota for peace in the world has been launched from the Minister of India in Delhi. She is in the annual book of Italian opera singer for having sung in the first world edition of contemporary opera at "Teatro comunale di Modena", broadcast on Italian state radio RAI. Gioconda is the first singer in the premiere world ever of the contemporary opera “Lavinia fuggita” by Matteo d’Amico. She has two degrees in opera singing and musicology from Italian conservatory "Santa Cecilia" and international high school of opera "H.Wolf". The tenor Luciano Pavarotti has been her teacher, among other opera singers who selected her as one of the best students. She was selected as best singer at accademia rossiniana in Pesaro and she debuts the role of "Madama cortese" in "il viaggio a Reims" by Rossini with the symphonic orchestra of Rof at Rossini theatre in Pesaro. She sings again in a Rossini opera at Ercolano international opera season in "Il barbiere di Siviglia" and at teatro Politeama opera season in Lecce. After Rossini she debuts "Carmen" by Bizet. Her interpretation of the role "Mimì" in the opera "La Boheme" by Puccini received positive critiques.

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• International soprano gioconda vessichelli interviewed as the exclusive opera singer at prague
• international opera singer Gioconda Vessichelli who sings in Bollywood part 2
• Movies in which Gioconda sung
• Awards
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She has been invited to the “Venice Awards” to sing for the composer Ennio Morricone with the programme being broadcast on RAI (Italian State television) in 2007.

She works with choreographer and director Linsday Kemp and conductor David Haughton for the opera "A Midsummer night's dream" by Benjamin Britten at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and later in teatro Verdi in Pisa and Teatro Goldoni in Livorno.

She was singer and also director in the opera Tosca at international festival "Quattro notti" in Benevento, and the next year at the same festival she makes her debut as an actress also and not only as just a singer in "La Vedova Allegra" by Lehar and as actress and singer again in "Orfeo all'inferno" by Offenbach at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari as well as in Christmas Carol with choir and orchestra also with the famous violinist Uto Ughi and the famous actor Michele Placido 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, she supports Aids researche through a concert in French Polynesia / Thaiti (Papeete) where she is honorary Citizen also aired in radio, 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 Pappano.

She was the first real opera singer in the world to make a fusion between opera and Hindi music. She has sung for Balaji productions and she often collaborates with the Bollywood singer Shibani Kashyap. She was the only international member of the jury of Miss India Worldwide in Pune in 2014, in which she also performed the song "Pyar Hua Iqraar" in opera version composed by herself.

She has received various invitations from 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 and she has just accepted to do the ramp as a model at Miss India Worldwide because it was linked to a musical performance of her composition. Recently she has accepted to feature, together with Mika Singh as a dancer, in a special Latino passionate style in Dilbagh Singh's video "Bottoms up" released in April 2015. She is involved in several philanthropic projects and for that she got the noble chivalric title of “Dame” from Cernetic Royal House. She won the Norman International Academy medal for her artistic career, as she started to sing opera as a prodigy child, when she was 14 years old, even if normally an opera singer's career starts at around 30 years of age. She sings in Italian, English, Hindi, Punjabi, French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Russian, Latin languages.