Rosana Marreco Brescia

Musicologist, lyric singer, and stage director Rosana Orsini has participated in various projects related to music, material, and immaterial musical heritage, with a special interest in opera and music in Brazil and Portugal in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a singer, she regularly performs alongside guitarist José Manuel Dapena, the Cuarteto Alicerce, and organist Marco Brescia. In 2022, she directed the modern premiere of the opera A Noite de São João by Elias Álvares Lobo in collaboration with the Tatuí Conservatory. She was artistic director of the productions of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera Il Ballo delle Ingrate, staged to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the composer’s birth, and José de Nebra’s Vendado es Amor, no es Ciego, staged on the 250th anniversary of the Spanish musician’s death – both produced as part of the Juiz de Fora International Festival of Early Music and Brazilian Colonial Music. She has a doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History from the Université Sorbonne – Paris IV and in Musical Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Master’s degree in Lyric Singing from the Manhattan School of Music (USA) and a postgraduate degree in singing from the Royal Academy of Music (GBR). She specialised in the historical interpretation of early music at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples (ITA), under the direction of Antonio Florio, in Mozartean interpretation at the Mozarteum Institute in Salzburg (AUS) with soprano Edda Moser, and in operatic conducting at the Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli, under the direction of Antonio Florio.