Martina Barreca

History

After graduating cum laude in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Florence, she began studying opera singing with Patrizia Morandini, later pursuing it with Susanna Rigacci and Patrizia Cigna. Between 2014 and 2015 she attended the masterclass of bel canto taught by Mara Zampieri, Montserrat Caballé and Roberto De Candia. In 2016 she was a finalist in the Concorso Omega Musica and won the role of Zerlina in Mozart's "Don Giovanni". In 2021 she won the Concorso Barocco Europeo in Sacile.

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Il Nascimento dell'Aurora

Zeffiro

Olympian gods and nymphs are celebrating Aurora's birth in the Vale of Tempe, crossed by the river Peneo. They praise her features in verse and song, comparing them to rivers and flowers. The text is anonymous and hints at a regal birth, probably Maria Theresa of Austria's in 1717.

Speak No Evil

Opera singer

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

L'impresario delle Canarie

Dorina

"L'impresario delle Canarie" is a satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Pietro Metastasio, written in 1724 to be performed between the acts of his opera seria "Didone abbandonata". Dorina, an opera singer, waits impatiently for the visit of a foreign impresario, Nibbio.

The Weight of the Sky

Music

Year 2020, the year of the pandemic and lockdowns. The unexpected story a grandmother tells her niece and a dreamlike journey through the atrocious memory of the Holocaust and deportation. A "two-step" that will bridge the distance in some way.