Mezzosoprano – carla@nahadi.com
I am a mezzosoprano (“mezzosoprano acuto di agilità”, quoting a phoniatrist who had a look at my vocal chords) specialized in early music, even if I like to sing and perform everything from any time and space. I sang on stages, in churches, squares, circus shows, theater plays, under the rain and in windy danish islands.
Contacts: carla@nahadi.com
Born in Terlizzi, Bari, Italy, and grown up in Lodi, I begin my singing experience in the kids choir of Lodi cathedral at 12.
I studied Energy Engineering at politecnico of Milan and singing, trombone and piano at the accademia internazionale della musica di villa Simonetta of Milan, with respectively Vincenzo Manno, Giovanni di Stefano and Ariella Soffritti.
I attended baroque and belcanto singing masterclasses with Sara Mingardo, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Luciana D’intino and studied vocal technique with Marina de Liso, Thomas Michael Allen, Franco Farina and John Norris.
I have collaborated with Laverdi Barocca di Milano, with the coreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in the contemporary dance performances “Cesena” and “En Atendant”; with the ensemble Ghislieri consort from Pavia conducted by Giulio Prandi and with Christoph Spering. I have been the singer-actress in the street-theater show “Creature” (created by Alessandro Serena, Marcello Chiarezza and produces by Pantakin da Venezia) in many and wonderful street festivals and theaters throughout Europe
I nowadays work with many ensembles and conductors, like Collegium Vocale Gent, Rene’ Jacobs, Andreas Spering, Capella de La Torre, specialized in renaissance music, the musicians’ collective graindelavoix (Björn Schmelzer, medieval repertoire), Concerto Romano (Alessandro Quarta), the renaissance music ensemble Lala Höhö, Nederlands Bach Vereniging, Musik Podium Stuttgart, Club Medieval, ensemble Lucidarium, with the commedia dell’arte Company “Pantakin da Venezia”.
I have performed in numerous festivals and concert halls; some of them are Tage Alte Musik, Herne, Tage der Alte Musik Basel, Edinburgh International Festival, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Le crete Senesi Asciano, Warsaw Chopin Festival, Saintes Festival, Sagra Musicale Umbra, stagione della DePhilarmonie Anversa, TAP Poitiers, Associazione Scarlatti Napoli, Lincoln Center New York, Styriarte, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Bruges, Auditório Nacional de Madrid, De Doelen Rotterdam, BAM Brookyln, Montalbane festival Freyburg, York early music festival.
In august 2014 I have been “Melissa” in the “Le fate” by Ristori at the theater of Gotha, Germany, during the Ekhof festival. The opera has been performed as première in modern times.
In April 2107 I was Pulcheria in Handel’s Riccardo primo at the theatre of Ulm, Germany (Hassler Consort, Franz Raml).
In January 2019 I recorded the role of San Bernardo in the sacred work “San Guglielmo d’Aquitania” by Pergolesi, for the label musica Novantiqua.
I work regularly for the music theater company, Silbersee from Amsterdam, as a singer and performer.