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Loriana Castellano studied at the Music Conservatory and the Basilica University in Matera and at the Tito Schipa Music Conservtory in Lecce before studying baroque repertoire with Edward Smith and Sara Mingardo at the Cappella della Pietà dai Turchini in Naples. She won the A Belli Competition in 2010 and the Toti dal Monte Competition in 2012.

Recent performances include Bradamante Alcina with Le Parlement de Musique de Strasbourg and Martin Gester; Zelinda in the modern premiere of Myslivecek’s Medonte with L’Arte del Mondo led by Werner Ehrhardt (recorded for Sony/DHM); Abra in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans at the Soli Deo Gloria Festival, Braunschweig and at the Festival de Beaune, with Modo Antiquo and Federico Maria Sardelli; Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica with Modo Antiquo and Sardelli at the Theater an der Wien and at the Opera Rara Festival in Krakow; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Thierry Fischer in Utrecht and Annina La traviata at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

This season, Loriana’s projects include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Bolzano and Trento, Fidalma Il matrimonio segreto in Ferrara and Rovigo, Britten’s Cabaret Songs at the Collegium Musicum, Bari and baroque concerts in Leverkusen and Berlin.

Loriana enjoys cooking, riding, swimming and football.

Von ewiger Liebe – Brahms

Wie Melodien zieht es mir – Brahms

Erwartung – Schoenberg

In the silence of the secret night – Rakhmaninov

Danza Andaluza (Danzas españolas ) – Granados

Parto, parto (La clemenza di Tito) – Mozart

The emperor Titus and Sesto are best friends, and in the classic love triangle, Sesto loves Vitellia, Vitellia loves Titus, Titus loves someone else. Vitellia, unable to accept that Titus will marry anyone but her, asks Sesto to kill his friend. He loves her so much that he declares he will do even this for her.

Svegliatevi nel core (Giulio Cesare) – Handel

Sesto, son of Pompey and Cornelia, swears vengeance for the assassination of his father, whose severed head has been presented to Caesar by the leader of the Egyptian army in Alexandria.

Nacqui all'affanno...Non più mesta (La Cenerentola) - Rossini

Cinderella sums up the events of the fairy-tale and tells how she has won good fortune. She tells her family to dry their disappointed tears, and share in her happiness with her new-found prince. In the cabaletta she declares that she will no longer sit sadly beside the hearth.