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Aurhelia Varak studied at Conservatorium Amsterdam graduating with honors under the guidance of Margreet Honig.

She attended several masterclasses and courses with Claire Gibaut at Laboratorio Voci in Musica in Rome, with Shirley Verret at Accademia Chigiana, with Claudio Desderi, with Alberto Zedda at Rossini Opera Festival, with Alessandra Althoff at Mozarteum, and with Renata Scotto, Anna Vandi and Cesare Scarton at Opera Studio -Accademia di Santa Cecilia.

In 2009 she debuted Sesto in Giulio Cesare at Glimmerglass Festival, in 2010 she performed Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro.
She has an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad with a repertoire ranged over music from five centuries, from XVI to XXI.
Recent engagements: Bergère, Chatte, Chauve-souris and Ecureuil ne L’enfant et les sortilèges at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Il Letto della Storia by Fabio Vacchi at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi at Teatro Bucci in San Giovanni Valdarno conducted by Giovanni Battista Varoli, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Palazzo Farnese and Villa Medici, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel at Teatro Nazionale in Rome conducted by Claire Gibault, Pollicino by Henze at Teatro Vascello in Rome conducted by Daniele Abbado.

In 2011 she has been awarded with the 2nd prize at Concorso Lirico Internazionale “Ruggiero Leoncavallo”.

2011: Stabat Mater by Dvoøák  - Trieste, conducted by Corrado Rovaris.

2012: Carmen - Hong Kong, conducted by Benjamin Pionnier and directed by Philippe Arlaud; upcoming performances include Ernestina in Rossini’s L’Occasione fa il ladro at La Fenice in Venice.

Repertoire:

Monteverdi            L’incoronazione di Poppea                   Ottavia
Monteverdi            L’Orfeo                                               Messaggera
Purcell                   Dido and Aeneas                                  Dido
Haendel                 Giulio Cesare                                      Sesto/Cesare
Haendel                 Ariodante                                           Ariodante
Haendel                 Alcina                                                 Ruggiero 
Mozart                  La clemenza di Tito                             Sesto
Mozart                  Le nozze di Figaro                               Cherubino
Mozart                  Così fan tutte                                      Dorabella
Gluck                   Orphée et Eurydice                               Orphée
Rossini                 Il barbiere di Siviglia                            Rosina

Rossini                  La cenerentola                                   Angelina
Rossini                  Semiramide                                        Arsace
Bellini                   I Capuleti e i Montecchi                       Romeo
Verdi                    Falstaff                                               Meg Page
Puccini                 Gianni Schicchi                                    Ciesca
Bizet                    Carmen                                               Carmen
Massenet              Werther                                             Charlotte
Ravel                    L’enfant et les sortilèges                     Bergère, Chatte,

AURHELIA VARAK

Mezzo-soprano

 

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