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ELVIRA FERREIRA, SOPRANO |
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Elvira Ferreira was born in Oporto, where she studied with Gemma Sala and Annerose Gilek. Later, she worked with Lola Aragón, (Casa de Mateus), Helena Pina Manique, Gino Bechi and Marimi del Pozo (Lisbon) and Carlo Bergonzi, (Accademia Verdiana, in Busseto). She was a resident singer in the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. She sang the roles of Pamina, Papagena ("Die Zauberflöte" - Mozart), Sirena ("Rinaldo" - Häendel), Siège Louis XV ("L'Enfant et les Sortilèges", Ravel), First Witch ("Dido and Aeneas", Purcell), Lisetta ("Lo Spirito di Contradizione", Francisco António de Almeida), Sacerdotessa ("Aida", Verdi), Micaela, Frasquita ("Carmen", Bizet), Oscar ("Un Ballo in Maschera", Verdi), Adina ("Elisir d'Amore", Donizetti), Despina ("Così Fan Tutte", Mozart), Blonde ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail", Mozart), Sophie ("Der Rosenkavalier", Strauss), Elvira ("L'Italiana in Algeri", Rossini), Nannetta ("Falstaff", Verdi), Gilda ("Rigoletto", Verdi), Amina, Lisa ("La Sonnambula", Bellini), Marzelline ("Fidelio", Beethoven), Anna ("Nabucco", Verdi), Nella ("Gianni Schichi", Puccini), Rosina, Berta ("Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Rossini), Zerlina, D. Elvira, D. Anna ("D. Giovanni", Mozart), Primeira Trabalhadora, Segunda Irmã, Segunda Mulher ("Os Dias Levantados", Pinho Vargas), Mrs. P ("The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat", Michael Nyman), Susanna ("Le Nozze di Figaro", Mozart), Mme Euterpova ("Help, Help, the Globolinks", Menotti), Erste Blume ("Parsifal", Wagner), Zweiter Engel (Palestrina, Pfizner), Lisetta ("Ouro Não Compra Amor", Marcos Portugal), Liù ("Turandot", Puccini), Ernesta ("As Damas Trocadas", Marcos Portugal). From the concert repertoire, she sang Mozart's "Mass in C minor" and the "Requiem", Orff's "Carmina Burana", Joly Braga Santos' "Requiem to the memory of Luís de Freitas Branco", Silva Leite's "Te Deum", Charpentier's "Te Deum", Haydn's "Mass of St. Cecily", Rossini's "Stabat Mater", Beethoven's IX Symphony, Joaquín Rodrigo's "Quatro Madrigales Amatorios", Debussy's "Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien", Verdi's "Requiem", Dvorak's "Stabat Mater". She sang with the conductors Franco Ferraris, Armando Gatto, John Neschling, Silva Pereira, Manuel Ivo Cruz, Roberto Perez, Armando Vidal, João Paulo Santos, Gunther Neuhold, Roberto Manfredini, Nello Santi, Giuliano Carella, Lathan Köenig, Renato Palumbo, Ferreira Lobo, Gunther Arglebe, Fernand Terby, Richard Armstrong, Rafael Montes, Christopher Bochmann, Jorge Matta, Michael Nyman, Fernando Fontes, Leonardo de Barros, Muhai Tang, Tadeusz Serafin, Ramón Encinar, Gabor Ötvös, Paolo Arrivabene, Josep Ferrer, Michael Zilm, Thomas Fulton, Nikolay Lalov, Zoltán Peszkó, Hynek Farkac, Nino Lepore, Antoni Wit, António Lourenço, Félix Carrasco, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Osvaldo Ferreira. She sang with the Orchestra of the National Theatre of S. Carlos, the Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the North, the Oporto Classical Orchestra, the Oporto National Orchestra, the Orchestra of Algarve, the Orchestra Sousa Carvalho, the BRT Orchestra in concerts in Belgium, the Youth Symphonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, at the International Festival of Music in Macao, the Orchestra of the Sofia Opera, in concerts in Bulgaria, the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, in Cardiff, the Orchestra of the Teatro Angrense, the Classical Orchestra of Madeira, the Emeritus Orchestra of S. Francisco, in the United States of America, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, in Lisbon and Oporto, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, in Lisbon and Macao, the Sant Cugat Symphonic Orchestra in Barcelona, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the Póvoa do Varzim Orchestra. She recorded for the RTP and the RDP with the pianist António Toscano. She recorded the opera "Os Dias Levantados" for the EMI label. Elvira Ferreira was invited to sing in the "Encontros de Música da Casa de Mateus" and in the International Music Festival in Macao. She won an award in the "Opera and Belcanto" competition of the Belgian Radio Television, in Gand. She was awarded the "Tomás Alcaide" and "Nova Gente" awards for her interpretation of Gilda. CONTACTS
31 August 2006 |
