Alicia Ferrer

Lyric Soprano, Qualified Singing Teacher graduated from the CSMMB (Conservatorio Superior Municipal de Música in Barcelona) where she also obtained a Piano Teaching Diploma. Among her Awards, Alicia won: Diploma of Honour at the Maria Canals International Competition (2000), Scholarship for a postgraduate course at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan after her performance at the International Competition “Francisca Cuart” (2002), and the award of Best Performance of Catalan Composition at the Mirabent i Magrans Competition (2007). In Italy, and in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona, she undertook postgraduate courses and masterclasses with prestigious teachers including Enedina Lloris, Kamal Khan and Paolo Vaglieri.

She made her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto. Later she played the roles of Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore, Marie in La Fille du Régiment and Marguerite in Faust. In her debut in Italy, she played the roles of Musetta in La Bohème, Ginevra of Ariodante and Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte. She sang in the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and Nedda in I Pagliacci.

She has worked under the baton of conductors such as Miquel Ortega, Stefano Seghedoni, and Paolo Vaglieri; and has performed at prestigious venues such as ‘El Gran Teatre del Liceu’, ‘El Palau de la Música Catalana’, the Auditorium of Palma, Majorca, ‘El Palau de la Música’ of Valencia, and the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, to name but a few.

Her interest in other musical fields and stage performance has seen her perform the characters of great lyrical musicals including: Maria in West Side Story (dir. R. Reguant), Anne in A Little Night Music (dir. Mario Gas), Mare in Gaudí (dir. J.A. Gutiérrez), Berta, la Generala, in La Generala (dir. Paco Mir, ‘El Tricicle’), Al Mumina in Balansiyyà (dir. Carlos Veiga) and Said’s mother in Mar i Cel (dir. Dagoll Dagom) in important theatres all over Spain.

Her theatrical work has been recognized by her nominations for Best Actress in a Musical in the 2003 Butaca Awards as well as Best Supporting Actress in the 2007 Friends of Musicals Awards, for her roles in Gaudí and in ‘Mar i Cel’ respectively.

 

Her recent works include:

Tirant lo Blanc by Calixto Bieito with music by Carlos Santos: her character, Eliseu, the blind organist, has allowed her to present herself as a lyrical singer, pianist and actress in Theatre Festivals in Frankfurt, Berlin, Madrid and Mexico (also as musical director) and the Romea Theatre in Barcelona.

Fortuny-Venise; contemporary opera by Diego dall'Osto (dir. Rafel Nadal) performed in Reus, Castellón, Lleida and Barcelona (La Pedrera).

Pierrot a la Lluna; contemporary opera for soprano and five instrumentalists (dir. Marc Rosich and Elisenda Carrasco) in the Auditorium of Barcelona.

Allegro Vivace, a brief history of the opera, and La Ventafocs, a children’s version of La Cenerentola by Rossini, two productions directed by Joan Font (Comediants) and produced by ‘El Gran Teatre del Liceu’.

La Pantera Imperial; the creation of Carlos Santos from the music of J.S. Bach at the ‘Teatre Lliure’ of Barcelona, the twelfth Ibero-American Theatre Festival in Bogotá (Colombia) and the Teatro Español in Madrid.

 

 

OPERA

G. BIZET	CARMEN	Micaela*
	LES PÊCHEURS DE PRELES	Leïla
B. BRITTEN	THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA	Female chorus*
G.DONIZETTI	LA FILLE DI RÉGIMENT	Marie*
	L'ELISIR D'AMORE	Adina*
CH.W. GLUCK	ORFEO ED EURIDICE	Amore, Euridice
CH. GOUNOD	FAUST	Margueritte*
	ROMÉO ET JULIETTE	Juliette
G.F. HAENDEL	ARIODANTE	Ginevra*
R. LEONCAVALLO	I PAGLIACCI	Nedda
J. MASSENET	MANON	Manon
W.A. MOZART	COSÌ FAN TUTTE	Despina, Fiordiligi*
	DON GIOVANNI	Zerlina*
	LE NOZZE DI FIGARO	Contessa*. Susanna*
G.B. PERGOLESI	LA SERVA PADRONA	Serpina*
G PUCCINI	GIANNI SCHICCHI	Lauretta
	LA BOHÈME	Mimì*, Musetta*
	LA RONDINE	Magda
	TURANDOT	Liù
VERDI	FALSTAFF	Nanetta
	LUISA MILLER	Luisa
	RIGOLETTO	Gilda*
	LA TRAVIATA	Violetta*

 ‘ZARZUELA’  AND OPERETTA

F. LEHÁR	MERRY WIDOW	Hanna Glawari*
V. LLEÓ	'LA CORTE DEL FARAÓN'	Lota*
R.MARTÍNEZ VALLS	'CANÇO D'AMOR I DE GUERRA'	Fransina*
F. MORENO TORROBA	LUISA FERNANDA	Duchess Carolina*
P. SOROZÁBAL	KATIUSKA	Katiuska*
	'LA DEL MANOJO DE ROSAS'	Asunción*
	'LA TABERNERA DEL PUERTO'	Marola*
R. SOTULLO & J. VERT	'EL ÚLTIMO ROMÁNTICO'	Aurora*
A. VIVES	'LA GENERALA'	'La Generala'*
	MARUXA	Maruxa*

MUSICAL

L. BERSTEIN	WEST SIDE STORY	Maria*
A. GUINOVART	GAUDÍ	Mother*
	'MAR I CEL'	Saïd's Mother*
R. RODGERS & O. HAMMERSTEIN	THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC	Maria
S. SONDHEIM	A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC	Anne Egermann*

 
CHAMBER MUSIC

M.DE FALLA
E. GRANADOS
F. MOMPOU
E. MORERA
F. SCHUBERT
R. SCHUMANN
R. STRAUSS

ORATORIO

T. ALBINONI	Magnificat
J.S. BACH	Magnificat
G. FAURÉ	Requiem
W.A. MOZART	Missa Brevis
	Kronung Messe
	Requiem
G.B. PERGOLESI	Stabat Mater
G. VERDI	Requiem

 *Role played on stage