This concert aims to extol the beauty of Romanticism and the final moment of tonal music, with Belcantista works by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini. You can watch and feel the deep emotion that comes from various types of love, and in this case, also from madness. We will then follow this musical journey, sentimentally exacerbated, which demonstrates the importance of the Belcanto flourishing in our hearts, and in our souls.
Programme
G. Donizetti (1797-1848)
"Prendi, per me sei libero" (L'Elisir d'Amore)
"Ah, tardai troppo... O Luce di Quest'anima" (Linda Di Chamounix)
"Quel guardo Il Cavaliere... So anch'io lá virtù magica" (Don Pasquale)
G. Rossini (1792-1868)
"Bel Raggio Lusinghier" (Semiramide)
G. Donizetti (1797-1848)
"Regnava nel silenzio... Quando rapito in estasi" (Lucia di lammermoor)
V. Bellini (1801-1835)
"Qui la voce sua soave... Vien Diletto è in ciel la luna" (I Puritani)
Constança Melo, Soprano lirico di Coloratura
Born in 2003, she began her studies in 2016 with teacher and Mezzo-Soprano Larissa Savchenko at the Portuguese Academy of Music and Arts (APMA). She was admitted to the Lisbon National Conservatory with full marks. Participated in several opera competitions, with top marks (Boris Martinovich Competition in Croatia and SOI Fiorenza Cedolins International Competition in Italy). Participation in the Got Talent Portugal program, in the first edition in 2015, at just 11 years old, where she won the golden button of the first edition, reaching the final (2nd place). 1st recital in 2018, at the espelho d'água space in Belém. Performances on stages such as: Fórum Cultural de Alcochete, Teatro Tivoli, Teatro Medici Giulini, Teatro Joaquim d'Almeida, Museu da Música Mecânica, Convento de Ugljan, Espaço Espelho d'água, among others. Online lessons with Italian Dramatic Soprano Fiorenza Cedolins. Easter concert with the "I Solisti Veneti" Orchestra conducted by Giuliano Carella, at the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. She is an honorary member of the Rotary Club Lisboa Centro. She recently began her studies at the EMCN and has performed on various stages, as well as auditioning for various opera companies abroad.
Joana Barata, piano
Born in Lisbon, he began studying piano at the age of five. He studied at the Escola de Música de Nossa Senhora do Cabo, in Linda-a-Velha, with teacher Mariana Cruz; at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa) with teacher Alexei Eremine on the Piano for Chamber Music and Accompaniment course, and finished his degree in Piano at the Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, in Porto, in the class of teacher Madalena Soveral, for which he won the Engenheiro António de Almeida Prize. In Chamber Music, he was tutored by Paul Wakabayashi and Ryszard Woycicki, among others. At the same time, he took part in training courses, both as a soloist and in chamber groups. She performed as a flute duo at the Clube Literário do Porto (2007-2009); she played the role of pianist in the operatic production on stage from March to June 2009 by A Companhia de Teatro do Algarve - "Efeito Imediato", directed by José Lourenço; she co-performed the Phantom of the Opera in its premiere in Portugal (2019) directed by Pedro Ribeiro. She has collaborated with the OML in the Opera Atelier since 2014 in the preparation of Mozart operas, performing in various halls in the Lisbon metropolitan area. He was a member of the Loures and Torres Vedras Fire Brigade Band, performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. She has organized the Ulgueira concert cycle (Sintra, Colares) since its first edition in 2008, and in 2011 it was integrated into the Sintra Festival. She is a regular guest pianist at festivals such as the Almost 6 International Trumpet Festival, the Palmela International Saxophone Festival, the Montijo National Competition and the Classical Summer. She has worked as an accompanying pianist at various music schools, including the Porto Conservatory of Music, the Suzuki Method Academy of Music - the staff (2007-2010) in competitions, concerts and recitals, the D. Dinis Conservatory of Music (2010-2017) and the School of Applied Arts (I. P. Castelo Branco). She currently collaborates with the Ensemble MPMP, with which she performs absolute premieres and recordings, the Associação Musical Lisboa Cantat and the Associação Coral de Odivelas, and is also an accompanying pianist at the Escola Profissional Metropolitana and the Escola Artística de Música do Conservatório Nacional.