Event Details
Tue, April 07, 2026
18:00 – 19:30
VILLA LA PIETRA
Villa la Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Firenze
(An event open to NYU Florence Community-only)
A Lecture/Concert of Operatic Music
Anastasia Egorova, mezzo soprano
Luca Fraternali, piano
CONCERT PROGRAM
Claudio Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea, “Disprezzata Regina”
Vincenzo Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, “Se Romeo t’uccise il figlio”, “La tremenda ultrice spada” (Recitativo, cavatina, e cabaletta)
Giuseppe Verdi, Don Carlo, “O don fatale”
Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana, “Voi lo sapete o mamma”
Gian Carlo Menotti, The Medium, Baba’s Aria
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Featured Biographies
Anastasia Egorova
MEZZO SOPRANO
Anastasia Egorova is a mezzo-soprano specialising in 20th- and 21st-century vocal repertoire under the guidance of Alda Caiello. She made her debut in My Name is Floria (world premiere, Festival Aperto) and as Madame Flora in The Medium at the Mascagni Festival. She has performed roles in operas by Puccini (Suor Angelica, La Rondine), Mozart (Don Giovanni), and Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana). She is the coordinator of the youth ensemble Our Youth Orchestra and performs at international festivals such as the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini and Forfest, the contemporary music festival in the Czech Republic.
Luca Fraternali
PIANIST
Luca Fraternali was born in Rimini on 11 August 2004. He entered the G. Rossini Conservatory at the age of eleven in the class of Maestro Giovanni Valentini, where he studied until 2019. He obtained his First-Level Academic Diploma in 2023 with highest honours (110 e Lode), under the guidance of Professor Antonietta Giammarco. He is currently attending the two-year Master programme at the Lettimi Conservatory in Rimini, studying with Maestro André Gallo.