Closing Concert - Espírito Santo Classical Music Festival
Date
November 28, 2026 — 8:00 PM
Venue
Theatro Sesc Glória - Vitória, ES
Artists
Ornella de Lucca performs in the closing concert of the Espírito Santo Classical Music Festival (Festival de Música Erudita do Espírito Santo), alongside the other winners of the Natércia Lopes Singing Competition, with the Espírito Santo State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Helder Trefzger. Soloists Cintia Cunha, Marília Carvalho and Ornella de Lucca sing arias from Brazilian operas, from Carlos Gomes to works created at the Festival itself.
About the Event
The program is entirely devoted to Brazilian opera, setting tradition side by side with recent creation. The first part brings together excerpts by Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian composer who conquered the Italian stage in the 19th century: the overture to Il Guarany (1870), two arias from Lo schiavo (1889), among them Come serenamente, in which the Indigenous woman Ilara sings of her love for Américo, and Délia's aria from Fosca (1873). The second part presents recent works: Navegar por dentro, from Marcus Siqueira's song cycle O Tempo e o Mar, on texts by Geraldo Carneiro, and arias from operas created at the Festival's Opera Creation Program (Núcleo de Criação de Ópera) between 2022 and 2025: André Mehmari's A Procura da Flor, based on Machado de Assis' Esau and Jacob; Marcus Siqueira's Contos de Júlia, on short stories by Júlia Lopes de Almeida; Maurício De Bonis' A Profissão da Senhora Warren, based on Bernard Shaw's play Mrs Warren's Profession; and Clitemnestra, also by Marcus Siqueira, a new reading of Aeschylus' tragedy. Ornella de Lucca sings Come serenamente, Navegar por dentro and Cassandra's aria from Clitemnestra.
Program
- C. GomesOverture (from the opera Il Guarany)
- Come serenamente (from the opera Lo Schiavo) (Ornella de Lucca)
- Ahimè! Dove sono? – Ad ogni mover (from the opera Fosca) (Cintia Cunha)
- Inno della libertà (from the opera Lo Schiavo) (Marília Carvalho)
- M. SiqueiraNavegar por dentro (from the song cycle O Tempo e o Mar) (Ornella de Lucca)
- A. MehmariCom quem será que Flora vai casar? (from the opera A Procura da Flor) (Cintia Cunha)
- Adeus, cidade (from the opera A Procura da Flor) (Marília Carvalho)
- M. De BonisWarren's Aria (from the opera A Profissão da Senhora Warren) (Cintia Cunha)
- M. SiqueiraLaura's Aria (from the opera Contos de Júlia) (Marília Carvalho)
- Cassandra's Aria (from the opera Clitemnestra) (Ornella de Lucca)