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Ximena Abello

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Singer (soprano)
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Ximena Abello has a Masters in Music (Merit) with an emphasis in Performance at Goldsmiths University of London, where she studied with Ashley Stafford. She completed her Bachelor at the ‘Pontificia Universidad Javeriana’ (Bogota, Colombia) with Dr. Carolina Plata. She has taken master classes with performers including Nicholas Mulray, Kathleen Wilson, Robert Brandt, Melba Ramos, Alexandra Zabala, Alejandro Escobar, and Carla Cottini. In 2012 she was a soloist at the Opera Gala "La Javeriana sings Mozart" held in the Auditorium Leon de Greiff with the Javeriana Symphony Orchestra in the Festival “Opera al Parque” in Bogota, Colombia. In 2013, she was a soloist in the Oratorio Judas Maccabaeus by G. F. Handel, accompanied again by the Javeriana Symphony Orchestra, performing concerts in different venues (Bogota and Zipaquira). In 2015 she was a soloist at the Opera Gala of the Javeriana University. She has participated in several recitals and opera galas in different art centers of Colombia (including the Foyer of the Teatro Colon among others), UK and Scotland. World-famous tenor Alejandro Escobar selected Ximena to participate actively in a lecture delivered by him and in the recital held in the "Colon acustico" series Teatro Colon. Ximena was selected as a scholar for the Salvi Foundation in the Cartagena International Music Festival 2015. During her studies in Colombia, she performed extracts from Offenbach’s opera Le Contes d’Hoffmann as Olympia, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as the Queen of the Night, and Bernstein’s Candide as Cunegonde. In 2017, she performed as Suor Angelica in Puccini’s opera, and as Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas for the OperaGold festival at Goldsmiths University. Also, in the same year she performed Gilda in Verdi´s Rigoletto for Clyde Opera Group in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2018, she took part in a workshop singing Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Corpus Animae Group in London, UK; and she sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in December with the same company.

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Ximena's Song list

V. Bellini
- Ma rendi pur contento
G. B. Bononcini
- Per la Gloria d´adorarvi
B. Britten
- On this Island:
Let the florid Music Praise
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is plenty
A. Caldara
- Sebben crudele
G. Fauré
- Mandoline
- Notre Amour
E. Grieg
- Sechs Lieder Op. 48:
Gruss
Dereinst Gedanke mein
Lauf der Welt
Die verschwiegene Nachtigal
Zur Rosenzeit
Ein Traum
R. Hahn
- A Chloris
- Le rossignol des Lilas
F. Hoyos
- In Paradisum – Cantos Para Soprano
C. Koechlin
- Si tu le veux
W. A. Mozart
- Ridente la Calma
- Als Louise
- Un Moto di gioja
H. Purcell
- Since from my dear
- Music For a While
S. Rachmaninoff
- Ostrovok Op. 14 No. 2
- Zdes' khorosho, Op.21, No.7
E. Satie
- Trois Autres Melodies:
1. Chanson
2. Chanson Medievale
3. Les Fleurs.
- La Diva de L´empire
A. Scarlatti
- Se Florindo e fedele
F. P. Schubert
- Die Vögel
- Der Musensohn
- Heimliches Lieben
- Lied der Mignon op. 62:
Heiss mich nicht reden
So lasst mich scheinen
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
- Du bist die Ruh
- Gretchen am Spinrade
R. A. Schumann
- Ländliches Lied
- Lied der Braut
- So wahr die Sonne scheinet
- Sehnsucht Op.51 No. 1
J. Sibelius
- Op. 37 No 4: Var det en drom?
C. L. Sjöberg
- Tonerna
R. Strauss
- Die Nacht
H. Villalobos
- Lundú da Marqueza de Santos
J. S. Bach
- Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not "Cantata BWV 21"
L. Bernstein
Glitter and be Gay "Candide"
G. Donizetti
- O luce di quest´anima "Linda di Chamounix"
- Prendi per me sei libero "L'elisir d'amore"
G. Fauré
- Pie Jesu "Requiem"
A. Grétry
- Plus de dépit, plus de tristesse "Les Deux Avares"
C.Gounod
- Je veux vivre "Romeo e Juliette"
G. F. Händel
- Come ever smiling liberty "Judas Maccabeus"
- Ch'io mai vi possa "Siroe"
- Il primo ardor "Ariodante"
- Piangero la sorte mia "Giulio Cesare in Egitto"
- Se pieta di me non senti "Giulio Cesare in Egitto"
- Tornami a vagheggiar "Alcina"
- V´adoro Pupille "Giulio Cesare in Egitto"
W. A. Mozart
- Ach ich fühl's "Die Zauberflöte"
- Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle
- Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen "Die Zauberflöte"
- Er war mir sonst treu und ergeben "Bastien und Bastienne"
- Nel sen mi palpita "Mitridate, re di Ponto"
- No, no, no che non sei capace
- O Zittre Nicht "Die Zauberflote"
- Ruhe Sanft, mein holdes Leben "Zaide"
- Se il padre Perdei "Idomeneo"
J. Offenbach
- Les oiseaux dans la charmille "Les Contes d`Hoffmann"
G.B. Pergolesi
- Cujus animam gementem "Stabat Mater"
- Stizzoso mio stizzoso "La serva Padrona"
H. Purcell
- Hark the ech´ing air "The Fairy Queen"
I. Stravinsky
- No word from Tom "The rake´s progress"
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Iain F
6 years ago, for a Theatre / Show in Bath St
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4 out of 5

Abello's voice is a pearly, sweet-toned instrument, just about ideal for Gilda.

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7 years ago

Abello's voice is a pearly, sweet-toned instrument, just about ideal for Gilda