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“Oriana Favaro (…) shone for her perfect coloraturas, her powerful middle register and for her admirable scenic involvement that implied to embody six different characters in only two hours.”
Gabriel Otero, mundoclasico.com
Bio
Consider one of the most actual relevant sopranos of Argentina and Latin-America, Oriana is well known for her luminous vocal register that enables her to move comfortably throughout different musical repertories with accurate style. This musical ability is framed by a remarkable acting commitment. Her interpretations are full of presence and passion.
Favaro is a frequent guest of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires where she performed numerous soloist roles, as well as in theaters in Uruguay, Chile, Brasil, Colombia, Mexico and France.
Thanks to her vocal and acting versatility, Oriana has embodied several leading roles such as Lucia de Lammermoor, Adina, Norina, Marie (Donizetti), Königin der Nacht, Pamina, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna (Mozart), Gilda and Nannetta (Verdi), Olympia (Offenbach), Sophie (Strauss and Massenet), Juliette and Giulietta, Corinna and Elvira (Rossini), Micaela and Frasquita (Bizet), Cunegonde, Belinda and others.
Also active as a concert soloist, Favaro sung the Mozart Requiem and his C Minor Mass, Mahler 2nd and 4th Symphonies, Haendel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Faure Requiem, Carmina Burana and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
In the Chamber Music field has Oriana also a wide experience in the Romantic and Postromantic German Lieder. Authors like Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and Mahler are among her most visited composers. In the Baroque Chamber Music has Favaro not only performed solo concerts but was also part of one of the most remarkable and innovative baroque music shows of recent times in Argentina: „Bromas y Lamentos“, with which they made successful tours in México and the USA.
Contemporary music is also part of Oriana Favaro’s repertoire. She has starred in La Casa sin Sosiego (G. Gandini), Candide (L. Bernstein), Hadewijch (Andriessen), the role of Maid in the Latin American premiere of „Powder her Face“ (Ades), the Quartet No. 3 (Ginastera) and will star in December 2023 the role of Elena in La Ciudad Ausente (G. Gandini) at the Teatro Colón.
Favaro could also work closely with renowned conductors such as Evelino Pidò, Peter Rundel, Ira Levin, Roberto Paternostro, Alejo Pérez, Sergio Monterisi, Felipe Aguirre, Antonello Allemandi, Rodolfo Fischer, Pedro Pablo Prudencio, Carlos Vieu, Javier Logoia Orbe, Arturo Diemecke and also outstanding Regisseurs as
Emilio Sagi, Zamira Pasceri, Stefano Poda, Marcelo Lombardero, Pablo Maritano, Rita Consentino, Paul-Emile Fourny, Andrè Heller-Lopes, Hugo de Ana, Aníbal Lápiz
Ruben Szuchmacher, Eugenio Zanetti, Joan Anton Rechi Obiols, Heiner Goebbels and Michal Znaniecki among others.
Oriana Favaro was born in Buenos Aires where she attended the Superior Institute of Arts (Teatro Colón) where she was also part of the Opera Studio from Teatro Argentino de la Plata. She has Bachelor Degree in History of Arts from the University of Buenos Aires and in August 2021, she was acknowledged as „Outstanding Cultural Personality of Buenos Aires“ by the Legislature of Buenos Aires. She also worked for ten years as a university Professor at UMSA (Buenos Aires).
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