Lydia Caruana

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Lydia Caruana is a Maltese operatic soprano who performs in the opera houses and concert halls of Europe and her native Malta. She has sung in two rarely performed operas by Maltese composers, Carmelo Pace's I martiri and Nicolo Isouard's Jeannot et Colin.

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Lydia Caruana was born in Malta, and initially studied music at the Johann Strauss School of Music in Valletta. She later furthered her studies in singing with the Maltese soprano Antoinette Miggiani and took master classes in Vienna with the Armenian-Austrian soprano, Sona Ghazarian. She made her operatic debut as Musetta in La bohème at the Teatru Manoel in Valletta in 1995. [1]

Amongst the roles she has performed in Italy and Malta are the title role in Suor Angelica , [2] Mimi in La bohème, [3] Norina in Don Pasquale , [4] Elvira in Don Giovanni and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus . She has also sung in rarely performed operas such as Nicolo Isouard’s Jeannot et Colin (as Thérèse) and Carmelo Pace's I martiri (as Graziella). While she retains her interest in performing and creating roles which are not in the standard operatic repertoire, she continues to perform in Italian opera, as in her concerts with the Berwald Symphony Orchestra of Stockholm conducted by Manfred Honeck and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Olivieri Monroe.

Caruana has sung in major concert halls across Europe such as the Musikverein in Vienna, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Theatre of the Estates in Prague and Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. In 2005, concert tours with the Belarusian State Symphony Orchestra took her to 16 German cities. She also sang in the Das Neue Europa Festival in Ingolstadt accompanied by the Georgian Chamber Orchestra. During 2006 she presented a Mozart programme in the final concert of the Valletta International Sacred Music Festival, a programme which she also performed in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. In 2007 Caruana partnered, on different occasions, José Carreras and Andrea Bocelli in Malta [5] and Joseph Calleja in Regensburg for the Rathaus concert series. [6]

Lydia Caruana is also an active recitalist, with a repertoire ranging from Haydn and Liszt to de Falla. In 2006, she gave a series of recitals in Vienna and Malta with pianist Paul Gulda, with whom she also recorded a CD of Mediterranean songs. [7] In 2008, she recorded a programme of Maltese composers, and their European contemporaries for the Austrian broadcasting company ORF in Vienna. [8]

Recordings

Past performances (highlights)

2008

2007

2006

2005

Before 2005

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References

  1. ↑ MaltaMedia News, Lyrical concert to feature Lydia Caruana, 10 May 2008. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  2. ↑ MaltaMedia News (10 May 2008)
  3. ↑ Leone Philharmonic Society (A.D. 1863), Tomorrow’s La Boheme will mark Lydia Caruana’s first appearance on a Gozitan operatic stage, 10 October 2008. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  4. ↑ di-ve.com, Lydia Caruana in Concert 9 May 2008. Accessed 6 February 2009
  5. ↑ Busuttil, Bernard, 'A great honour to have José Carreras singing in Malta' – Tourism Minister Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine , The Malta Independent , 24 February 2007. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  6. ↑ The Malta Independent, Lydia Caruana furthers already prolific career Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine , 8 July 2007. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  7. ↑ The Malta Independent, Lydia Caruana is Bailey’s Woman of the Year 2007 Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine , 2 August 2007. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  8. ↑ ORF, RadioKulturhaus Highlights, September 2008. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  9. ↑ Newman, David, November sees two nights of opera in Cork and the Capital, The Irish Independent , 22 October 2006. Accessed 6 February 2009
  10. ↑ Malta International Airport, Press release: MIA Concert to Open Manoel Theatre Season Archived 2010-01-01 at the Wayback Machine , 20 September 2006. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  11. ↑ University of Malta, Press release, 5 December 2001. Accessed 6 February 2009.
  12. ↑ Department of Information - Government of Malta, Malta's first ever participation in the Edinburgh Arts Festival, 13 August 1999. Accessed 6 February 2009.
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