Italian soprano, Eva Mei, together with Gerard Korsten, will present masterclasses to advanced vocal students of the Odeion School of Music. These masterclasses are free of charge and members of the public, pedagogues, students and accompanists are invited to attend. The Odeion School of Music presents these masterclasses in collaboration with the FSSO (Free State Symphony Orchestra).
MORE ABOUT EVA MEI…
Eva, daughter of an Italian family of musicians, studied at Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” (Florence). For her interpretation of Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, she received the Caterina-Cavalieri-Price at the international Mozart Competition (Vienna, 1990). Shortly after, she debuted with the same role at Vienna State Opera, which marked the beginning of her international career. In the last two decades she appeared in the most important opera houses all over the world.
Eva, daughter of an Italian family of musicians, studied at Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” (Florence). For her interpretation of Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, she received the Caterina-Cavalieri-Price at the international Mozart Competition (Vienna, 1990). Shortly after, she debuted with the same role at Vienna State Opera, which marked the beginning of her international career. In the last two decades she appeared in the most important opera houses all over the world.
As refined interpret of the Italian Belcanto as Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi, she never left Mozart and she sang almost all interesting soprano leading parts of this composer. She sang, amongst others, Norina (Don Pasquale) at La Scala Milan, Amenide (Tancredi) at La Scala Milan, the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) at Royal Opera House Covent Garden London as well as Violetta Valery (La Traviata) at the German State Opera Berlin. Eva keeps a strong relationship with the Opera House Zurich, where she was seen as Händel‘s Alcina, as Mozart‘s Donna Anna, as Contessa in Le Nozze Di Figaro, as Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen and as Mathilde in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. In 2012 Eva concurred as Elisa in an performance of Mozart‘s Il re Pastore (Salzburg Festival). Two years later she returned to Salzburg with Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle conducted by Antonio Pappano.
Eva worked with many prestigious conductors as Nicolas Harnoncourt, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, Franz Welser-Möst, William Christie, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Myung-whun Chung, Antonio Pappano and Jonathan Nott.
Besides her operatic career she always was very active in the chamber and symphonic repertoire and appeared in concerts and recitals at major concert stages. They include the Vienna Concert Hall, Salle Pleyel Paris and Suntory Hall Tokyo. Furthermore she gives masterclasses in Italy and Japan.
To one of her favourite roles evolved Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, which she sung in concert performances with Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra, at the Lucerne Festival (Teatro Verdi Trieste), at La Scala (Milan) under the baton of Daniele Gatti and at Teatro San Carlo (Naples). Recently she sung Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) at Teatro Regio (Parma) and at Teatro Valli (Reggio Emilia). At Montecarlo Opera she was Adalgisa (Norma) followed by Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the La Palma Festival. With the Scala Orchestra Milan she sung Beethoven 9th Symphony under the baton of Chung Myung-Whun. She also debuted Leonora (Rosmonda d’inghilterra) at the Donizetti Festival Bergamo as well as at Maggio Musicale Florence. At the Teatro Lirico Cagliari she gave her debut as Oscar (Un ballo in maschera).
Latest engagements include a new production of Fledermaus at La Scala Milan conducted by Zubin Metha, the roles of Alice Ford (Falstaff) with conductor Iván Fischer, and Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) at the Palau de les Artes Valencia. Concerts have taken her to Toyko and Cagliari.
ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504) / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za
Odeion School of Music
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