Rosana Orsini

Rosana Orsini, musicologist, opera singer, and stage director, has participated in various projects focused on music and historical musical heritage, particularly in the history of opera, convent music, and the role of women in music in Portugal and Brazil during the 18th and 19th centuries. She was the principal investigator of the Avemus project: Music in concertato style in the ancient Royal Monastery of São Bento da Avé-Maria in Porto (1774-1829) – DOI 10.54499/2022.01889.PTDC, funded by FCT.

She is a member of the International Musicological Society and has published articles in journals such as Anuario Musical (ESP), Cambridge Opera Journal (GBR), Sacred Music Journal (USA), Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana (ESP), Caravelles: cahier du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien (FRA), and the Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da USP (BRA). She is the author of two books on the Casa da Ópera de Ouro Preto (2012 and 2020) and a study on 18th-century set design in Portugal and Brazil (2019).

Performing regularly at international festivals across Europe and the Americas, she directed the modern premiere of A Noite de São João by Elias Álvares Lobo in 2022, in collaboration with the Conservatório de Tatuí. She also served as artistic director for the operas Il Ballo delle Ingrate by Claudio Monteverdi and Vendado es Amor, no es Ciego by José de Nebra at the Juiz de Fora International Festival of Early and Colonial Brazilian Music.

Rosana holds a doctorate in History from Université Sorbonne – Paris IV and in Musicology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a master’s in Opera from the Manhattan School of Music, and a postgraduate degree from the Royal Academy of Music. She specializes in historical performance of early music at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella, Mozart interpretation at the Mozarteum Institute in Salzburg, and opera staging at the Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli. Since 2018, she has been conducting her research under the DL57/2016/CP1453/CT0024.