米雷拉·弗雷妮 (Mirella Freni,1935-),著名意大利女高音歌唱家。受教于著名声乐教师康波加里阿尼,1955年在家乡初演歌剧《卡门》中的米卡埃拉,后在意大利各地方歌剧院演出。1960年以扮演歌剧《唐·璜》中的采琳娜,在格林德伯恩歌剧节上博得好评。1963年在米兰·斯卡拉歌剧院成功地塑造了《艺术家的生涯》中咪咪的形象,奠定了在歌剧界的地位,1965年登上纽约大都会歌剧院的舞台。

嗓音特色
她的嗓音清澈,表情动人,给人以真挚、细腻、亲切之感。擅长扮演意、法歌剧中的抒情角色,也能胜任《奥赛罗》中苔丝德蒙娜等抒情-戏剧型角色。
Mirella Freni, birth name Mirella Fregni, (born 27 February 1935, Modena, Italy) is an Italian opera soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Freni was married for many years to the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, with whom she performed and recorded.

Career
Freni was born into a working class family; her mother and tenor Luciano Pavarottis mother worked together and an aunt was the soprano Valentina Bartolomasi. She was a musically gifted child, and when 10 years old sang "Un bel dì vedremo" in a radio competition; the tenor Beniamino Gigli warned her, however, that she risked ruining her voice and advised her to give up singing until she was older. She resumed singing at the age of 17.
Freni made her operatic debut in Modena in 1955, when 19 years old, as Micala in Bizets Carmen. She later married her teacher, the piano player and director Leone Magiera, resuming her career in 1958 when she performed Mimì in Puccinis La bohème at the Teatro Regio in Turin, and sang in The Netherlands Opera 1959-60 season. Her international breakthrough came at Glyndebourne, where she sang as Adina in Franco Zeffirellis staging of Donizettis Lelisir damore; in the Glyndebourne 1960-62 season she sang the Mozart comic roles of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
In 1961, Freni made her Royal Opera House debut as Nannetta in Verdis Falstaff, and in 1963, her La Scala debut in a Zeffirelli production[which?] conducted by Herbert von Karajan; Freni went on to become one of Karajans favourite singers, working with him in operas and concerts. In 1965 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimì, and later appeared there as Liù in Puccinis Turandot and Marguerite in Faust; her Juliette in Roméo et Juliette ran for 139 performances. The following year she sang Mimì again for her Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company debut, with Flaviano Labò as Rodolfo.
From the early 1970s into the 1980s Freni sang heavier Verdi roles, particularly Elisabetta in John Dexters production of Don Carlo, Desdemona in Otello, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Elvira in the Luca Ronconi staging of Ernani, Leonora in La forza del destino, and the title role of Aida. She also added the Puccini heroines of Manon Lescaut and Tosca to her repertoire, and recorded Madama Butterfly and the three roles of Il trittico.
Freni starred in the 1975 film Madama Butterfly opposite Plácido Domingo, with von Karajan conducting and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle directing, and in 1976, played Susanna in the Ponnelle film Le nozze di Figaro, which also featured Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Hermann Prey.
In 1978 she married Nicolai Ghiaurov, one of the leading operatic basses of the post-war period. Together they helped to establish the Centro Universale del Bel Canto in Vignola, where they began giving master classes in 2002. Following Ghiaurovs death in 2004, Freni continued their work of preserving the Bel Canto tradition, and currently teaches young singers from around the world.
Freni extended her repertoire and style during the 1990s with Italian Verismo, taking on the title roles of Cileas Adriana Lecouvreur in Milan, Paris, Barcelona and New York, and Giordanos Fedora in London, Milan, New York, Torino, Barcelona and Zürich. In 1998, she performed Giordanos Madame Sans-Gêne in Catania. During this time she sang in the Russian operas of Tchaikovsky, appearing as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Lisa in The Queen of Spades, and Ioanna in Orleanskaya Deva.
Mirella Freni ended her professional career on stage with Orleanskaya Deva at the Washington National Opera on 11 April 2005, performing the teenager Ioanna (Joan of Arc) at 70 years of age.

Honours
She was awarded the Italian Cavaliere di Gran Croce and the French Légion dhonneur in March 1993. The University of Pisa awarded her an honorary degree in 2002 for her "great contribution to European culture."
In 2005, the Metropolitan Opera celebrated the 40th anniversary of her Met debut and her 50th anniversary on the stage with a special gala concert conducted by James Levine.