Handel’s Orlando

Dorinda
Joana Seara

Joana was born in Lisbon and finished her degree in Media Studies before coming to London to study at the Guildhall School. She completed her BMus and MMus degrees, and the Opera Course, supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Wingate Foundation, E M Behrens Charitable Trust and the Worshipful Company of Barbers. Opera roles include Nannetta Falstaff (GSMD), the title role in Violet by Roger Scruton, Ninetta La finta semplice (GSMD), Despina Così fan tutte (BYO 2005), Zerlina Don Giovanni (Opera! Festival, Netherlands) and Tartagliona The Little Green Swallow (British première, GSMD). She was a chorus member in the 2006 Glyndebourne Festival.

Joana has appeared as a soloist in Mahler’s Symphony no 2, Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony and Handel’s Messiah, and in song recitals in England and Portugal. She is a frequent soloist with the Lisbon-based Baroque Ensemble of Chiado and the Divino Sospiro Baroque Orchestra. Joana has performed at the Festival de Musique Baroque d’Ambronay and the Mafra International Festival of Music. Future dates include a recital in the Oxford Lieder Festival and the role of Orquídea in the world première in Oporto of O Rapaz de Bronze by the Portuguese composer Nuno Côrte-Real.