Ohrid, 29 July 2022 (MIA) – The traditional Italian evening will be held at Ohrid Summer Festival on Friday with a concert by soprano Daria Masiero and pianist Andrea Campora. Daria Masiero is one of the most important Italian singers having sung with the greatest artists of the opera scene like José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Renato Bruson under the batons of Riccardo Muti, Sir Antonio Pappano, Myung-Wung Chung and many others performing in some of the world’s most renowned theatres and festivals. She has done the title female roles in many productions including Elisabetta in Don Carlo at La Scala in Milan and for the Salzburg Festival, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Liù in Turandot at Petruzzelli Theater in Bari, Manon Lescaut at the Art Centre in Seoul, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera in Pavia, Cremona and Como, Odabella in Attila at Massimo Theater in Palermo and National Theater in Lubeck, Fedora in Fedora for Politema in Lecce and Foggia, La Rondine in Nice, Margherita in Mefistofele for Savonlinna Opera Festival, Margherita in Mefistofele and Tosca for Regio in Parma, Desdemona in Otello for La Scala in Milan, Como, Cremona, Pavia, Brescia… She has performed the roles of Liu, Loenora, Micaela and Tosca at the Sydney Opera House. Daria Masiero’s concert repertoire includes: the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater all of which she has performed in concert halls around the world. Born in 1975, Andrea Campora started learning classical piano at the age of six, taking his final Diploma from the “N. Paganini” Conservatorio in Genoa in 1993. At the same time, he began to attend composition courses, concluding his composition studies with Gilberto Bosco at the “G. Verdi” Conservatorio in Turin in 1999 and orchestral conducting the following year. Beside the musical studies, since 1994 he studied mathematics at the University in Piemonte from which he graduated with honour in November 2000. Since then, he successfully combines the composing, piano playing and teaching. In the last years, he has been called to play in various chamber ensembles, besides being active as accompanist for opera singers. As a coach and pianist, he worked at the opera in Savona and since 2002 he is actively working at the Teatro Regio in Turin where he was also assistant choirmaster. dk/ik/