On Stage
Concerts, festivals, and modern premieres of long-lost music.
Institutions and ensembles
A soloist in demand across Italy and abroad, she has appeared with leading institutions and ensembles, including:
- La Cappella Neapolitana (Antonio Florio)Featured at the Duni Festival in Matera, the Ravello Festival, and the 39th Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla (FEMÀS) at Seville’s Espacio Turina. She has also given modern premieres of long-forgotten works, among them Tempio Armonico, Sicut Sagittae, and Voci svelate, presented with the Fondazione Banco di Napoli.
- Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti, Naples (conducted by Gaetano Russo)Soloist in Mozart’s Six Notturni, arias from Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Giuditta, and Giovanni Bononcini’s oratorio La Maddalena a’ piedi di Cristo.
- Associazione Alessandro ScarlattiRecitals devoted to the masters of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan school (Pietrantonio Gallo, Gaetano Veneziano, Alessandro Scarlatti), to J. S. Bach and Barbara Strozzi, and to contemporary voices such as Gaetano Panariello.
- Associazione Musicale “Mysterium Vocis”, conducted by Rosario TotaroA soloist and chorister since 2009, with an intense concert activity devoted to neglected scores of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Neapolitan tradition, and in particular to the sacred repertoire of Pietrantonio Gallo, Pasquale Cafaro and Nicola Sala.
- Touring and operaIn 2018, she represented the Naples Conservatory at the Melody of Yangtze River Festival in Wuhan, China, singing eighteenth-century Neapolitan arias, villanellas, and classic Neapolitan songs. In 2019, she was cast as Primavera in Domenico Scarlatti’s staged serenata La contesa delle Stagioni at the 20th International Festival of Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Music.
Modern premieres of long-forgotten works
She has performed as a soloist in the modern premieres of the following works:
With La Cappella Neapolitana, conducted by Antonio Florio
- Donato Ricchezza (1651–1731)Il Nabucco, oratorioIl cigno di Polonia (The Swan of Poland), cantata
- Cristofaro Caresana (1640–1709)La pace a 5 voci, per la Nascita di nostro Signore (Peace for Five Voices, for the Nativity of Our Lord)La stragge de l’innocenti (The Massacre of the Innocents)
- Gaetano Veneziano (1656–1716)Four sacred works for five voices and violins, composed for the nuns of the Holy Spirit: Veni Creator Spiritus, Veni Sponsa Christi, Pange lingua, and Laudate Dominum
- Francesco Antonio Boerio (17th century)Salve Regina for four voices and violins
- Giovanni Salvatore (1611–1688)Messa a 4 con violini (Mass for Four Voices and Violins)
Further premieres
- Pietrantonio Gallo (1702–1777)La lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo (Second Lamentation for Holy Thursday) · Mysterium Vocis, conducted by Rosario Totaro
- Ignacio de Jerusalem y Stella (1707–1769)O cielos si el contento · Orchestra di Lecce e del Salento, conducted by Antonio Florio
- Gaetano Veneziano (1656–1716)Il Tobia sposo, dramatic scherzo in two acts · I Figlioli di Santa Maria di Loreto, directed from the organ by Maurizio Rea
- Antonio Caldara (1670–1736)Il martirio di Santa Caterina, oratorio with libretto by Francesco Forzoni Accolti (Rome, 1708) · conducted by Giuseppe Camerlengo
Beyond the Baroque
- Theater and dance
- Twentieth century and contemporary
- Neapolitan song
Theater and dance. She was a featured soloist in Mishima: The Garden of Forbidden Dreams, a work by the acclaimed choreographer Ismael Ivo set to music by Richard Wagner and Reynaldo Hahn, presented at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and the Ravello Festival.
Twentieth century and contemporary. Her repertoire ranges from the sacred jazz of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts to Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.
Neapolitan song. Deeply rooted in the Neapolitan song tradition, she has performed and recorded with some of Italy’s best-loved singer-songwriters, including Peppe Barra, Edoardo Bennato, and Edoardo De Crescenzo.
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