Ariana Vafadari Artist Bio

Ariana Vafadari was born in Iran and came to France her mother’s country at the age of five. She graduated as a civil engineer. Then she studied at the Academy of Music of Paris and at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler of Berlin. She also attended the courses of the Actor Studio with Jack Waltzer.

Opera roles includes Nancy (Albert Herring of Britten, Dido and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas of Purcell) with Stephen Stubbs and Jaap ter Linden, Nerone (L’Incoronazione di Poppea of Monteverdi) with Emmanuelle Haïm at the Academy of Muic of Paris,Proserpina (Orfeo of Monteverdi) with Philip Pickett at the Opera Studio for Lyon Opera, Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte of Mozart) for Toulon Opera.

Concert work includes many recitals with the greate pianists Emmanuel Strosser, Claire Desert and Christian Ivaldi (Berlioz, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Britten, Weill, Haendel, Debussy…) in Japan, Riga, Germany and France.
She also sang Mozart’s Requiem with Vincent Barthes (ONPL), Les Chants d’Auvergne of Canteloube with the Auvergne’s Orchestra with Ari van Beek, the Folk Songs of Berio with Florent Boffard (around Brésil), Shéhérazade and the Hebrew’s mélodies of Ravel with Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme in Texas and Songs and Danses of Death of Moussorgsky with the Baltic Chamber Orchestra and the soloists of the Saint Petersbourg’s Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2011 she has sang at the Fès Festival in Morocco for Armand Amar’s opera, that will be shown in 2012 and 2013 in Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg, Theater of Châtelet of Paris, London, and Italy.
In 2012 she is singing in Jérôme Combier opera in Lyon’s Opera. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.