Opera Voice with Daniela D.

I am an Italian opera singer. I have almost twenty years as an international soloist, teaching private lessons and master classes in Universities. I gave master classes internationally at the CNA (Mexico City 2009), at the University of Guanajuato (Mexico 2012), at the University of Costa Rica (2013) I am specialized in Italian Romanza and in the genre of Song (Lied, Chanson, Canción, etc) and most in genera in also in Opera. My methods to teach includes the description of the respiratory and phonatory, set position of voice, set of breathing (support), exercises in vocal technique and the study of ancient arias, Songs and Opera Arias. BIO Active in the international field, I have been guest singer in various theaters and festivals in Europe, United States, Mexico and Costa Rica. Among the most important recent commitments, I was guest soloist at the “Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes” and the “Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea M.Enríquez” in Mexico City, with the Boca del Rio Philharmonic Orchestra (Mexico), Oaxaca Symphony Orchestra, Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Puebla Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), and Heredia Symphony Orchestra (Costa Rica). As a soloist my most important recent activities include the American premiere of the chamber version of the opera DeCachetitoRaspado by Juan Trigos at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta with Bent Frequency Ensemble (2015). By the same composer, has been remarkable my participation as a guest soprano in the world premier and recording for iTinerant of the works Cantata Concertante No. 3 Phos Hilaron (2013), and Symphony N. 4 Nezahualcoyotl Icuicahuan (Songs of Nezahualcoyotl) for soprano and orchestra, with texts in Nahuatl by Nezahualcoyotl (2016), and also my participation as a guest soloist with the orchestra Carlos Chávez in Mexico City and at the Eastman School of Music of Rochester, NY. As a chorister I sing with the Houston Chamber Choir since August 2016 and occasionally with the Houston Grand Opera since January 2017. I studied voice in Italy with M.Trombetta and specialized with Paolo Barbacini, C. Desderi, T.Krause and M.Sighele in opera repertoire, E.Battaglia and L.Gallo in German Lieder, and Dorothy Dorow in interpretation of first XXth Century repertoire.