Marialuce Monari

Marialuce Monari graduated in piano at the Conservatorio "G.B.Martini" in Bologna, where she also studied Fugue and Composition with Ivan Vandor and completed the Course for Master Collaborators held in collaboration with the Teatro Comunale in the same city.Since 2010 she has been teaching at the Conservatorio "Arrigo Boito" in Parma. She has worked as a pianist and chorister (under the direction of Adone Zecchi, Bruno Zagni, Pier Paolo Scattolin, Federico Salce, Giorgio Magnanensi), winning prizes and awards in national and international competitions, touring Europe and making recordings.She has performed in concerts and as a researcher in a four-handed duo with the pianist and historian Maria Chiara Mazzi, which has seen them engaged in the rediscovery of precious pages from the wide repertoire of nineteenth-century Musique de Salon, performed in churches and theatres throughout Italy. She has collaborated as a music critic for the information, art and entertainment magazine "Alla Ribalta" in Bologna, covering the opera and symphonic seasons of the Teatro Comunale and Bologna Festival - I Grandi Interpreti, and has written libretti for the opera houses of Modena and Cagliari.As an accompanist she has worked with, among others, the pianist Lorenzo Bavaj, the baritone Gastone Sarti, the soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci and the bass Carlo Colombara. As choir conductor, she performed for the first time at the head of the prestigious and centenary Corale Euridice in Bologna and for a few years, at the request of the Municipality of Bologna, she also turned his attention to historical research and the revival of the Emilian folk repertoire, conducting the Villa Paradiso Choir.From 2002 to 2008 she taught Choral Exercises at the 'Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali' in Reggio Emilia and as director of the Institute's choir she collaborated with mezzo-soprano Sonia Ganassi, collaborated with Maestro Mauro Trombetta and director Francesco Esposito in the staging of the children's operas that won ex-aequo in the national competitions held in those years; She recorded a CD of patriotic anthems for the then President of the Republic, Carlo Azelio Ciampi; she was present at the Tricolour celebrations at the Valli Theatre with the actress Milena Vukotic; she took part in the European University Days in the Vatican in the presence of His Holiness John Paul II and Benedict XVI; she was choirmaster at the First National Execution of Massimo Iamone's Salve Regina. At the same time she founded, promoted and took care of the Children's Choir at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali in Ravenna, participating with it in the Culture Weeks promoted by the National Museum and in numerous cultural activities in the city, collaborating with the youth orchestra Il Giardino dei Grilli in numerous events, She has also performed, among others, with the Institute's orchestra, as director and conductor and as choirmaster alongside Maestro Emir Saul, Telemann's Der Schulmeister with baritone Maurizio Leoni, Virgilio Savona's Opera delle filastrocche and Paul Hindemith's ‘Costruiamo una città’.However, her intense activity is mainly in the field of opera. In fact, since 1992 she has been Artistic Director of the San Rocco Opera Chorale. With it she has presented as "Opera da Salotto" and in stage productions: Cenerentola, Elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, Norma, Carmen, Traviata, Trovatore, Rigoletto, Un ballo in maschera, Attila, Nabucco, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Madama Butterfly, Boheme, Tosca, collaborating with numerous orchestras and conductors and also with the Italian Opera School of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She has successfully participated in international festivals in Paris, Prague (recording for the historic Radio of the Czech Republic), Dobbiaco (Italy), Sparta (Greece), Vienna, Salzburg (Austria) and Munich (Germany).Since 2013 she has also started an annual appointment with the city of Bonn, for the World Migratory Bird Day organised by the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species and the African-Eurasian Waterbirds Agreement, under the patronage of the UN Environment Programme. Again, with the Chorale, she has made incursions outside the world of opera with interventions and arrangements in Iskra Menarini's CD ‘Ossigeno’, in which Gianni Morandi also participated, and other events with Iskra Menarini, Dodi Battaglia and Fio Zanotti.In his numerous performances she has often worked alongside established singers and world-famous artists such as Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Sonia Ganassi, Alberto Gazale, Antonello Palombi, Simone Alberghini, Giacomo Prestia, Maestro Leone Magiera and Maestro Isaac Karabtchevsky, Raina Kabaivanska, Nicola Martinucci, Vincenzo La Scola, Pietro Ballo, Bruno Praticò, Michele Pertusi and, in particular, Leo Nucci, with whom she has been collaborating for more than 20 years and whom she sang, among other things, in Traviata and Rigoletto.