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Maura Moreira (Contralto)

Born: February 2, 1933 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Brazilian contralto, Maura Moreira, got her first training at the Conservatório Mineiro de Musica and with Maximilian Hellmann. After she had won a national singing competition in Brazil, she could continue her training with the help of a scholarship of the Brazilian Board of Education at the Vienna’s Musikakademie.

Still during her studies Maura Moreira made her debut in 1959 at the City Theatre of Ulm as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. She won then the Verdi Concur in Vercelli and made guest appearances now in Western Europe on the stage as in the concert hall. Apart from her stage repertoire she specialised in the oratorio and in the Lieder. She had important successes in the centres of the German music life, in Austria, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and in Switzerland. Among her big stage roles ranked Amneris in Aida, Eboli in Don Carlos by Verdi, Azucena in Troubadour, and Venus in Tannhäuser. She was also an important interpreter of contemporary music. Since 1962 she was for long time member of the Opera House of Köln. There she appeared, among other things, in February 1965 in the premiere of the opera Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermamm.

Maura Moreira’s darkly shining voice capable of passionate drama is to be heard on several record labels. On Fono-Vox she sings the Alto Rhapsody by Johannes Brahms, Wesendonck-Lieder by R. Wagner, works of J.S. Bach, J. Haydn and Gustav Mahler, in addition Brangäne in selection from Tristan, on Wergo the integral modern opera Die Soldaten by B.A. Zimmermann.




Source: Operissimo Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (June 2004)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (June 2004)

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Moreira-Maura.htm

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  • Homenagem mais do que justa:

    além de ser uma grande artista, que sempre elevou o nome do Brasil no exterior, nunca teve no nosso país o reconhecimento que merece! E durante todo tempo lá fora, mandou todos os meses pacotes de roupas para os mais necessitados aqui no Brasil, sem fazer alarde! GRANDE MULHER!

  • Grande Mulher, gigante nos feitos!

  • Uma das mais belas vozes de nosso país! Segundo relatos mulher de sangue quente,de um magnetismo singular! De referência própria só posso dizer que é uma artista das maiores!

    Brava,por vossa carreira e por seu legado!

    Obrigado ao Moacir pela postagem.

    Marcos

  • foi um prazer Marcos!

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  • A mais bela voz que já ouvi. Inacreditavelmente bela. Não tenho palavras para descrever essa voz. Extraordinária. Ímpar. Não há outra igual. Obrigado pela postagem. Quando Deus criou uma voz para o canto criou esta de Maura Moreira. Um talento imensurável para cantar.

  • Sim, linda voz. E ela deixou alguma familia no Brasil ou mesmo na Alemanha? Fiquei pensando.

  • Que hermosa voz, que melancólica... recuerdo un disco de esta cantante que oía de pequeño con el requiem de mignon y los wesendonck lieder... que pena que no fuera más conocida.

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