Curriculum Vitae
Rosina Herrera Sicilia
Spanish soprano Rosina Herrera is a native of the Canary Islands, where she studied musical theory and later voice at the Tenerife conservatory with Isabel G. Soto. Early on, she gained stage experience with the ensemble Coro polifónico de la universidad de la Laguna, touring excessively and taking part in numerous recordings.
She continued her education at the Freiburg conservatory in Germany, studying voice with Maria Orán and Jeanette Favaro from 1990 to 1996. With Floriana Cavalli at Milan and in master classes of Renato Cappecchi she further refined her voice.
As a soloist, she has worked with the State Orchestra Braunschweig, the symphony orchestras of Galicia, of Tenerife, and of Polish Radio Katowice, with the Capella Novanta, the Dvorák symphony orchestra Prague, the Berlin Lautten Compagney and the Berlin Academy of Ancient Music. She has been performing under the direction of Jonas Alber, Victor Pablo Pérez, Peter Marx, Siegfried Heinrich, Wolfgang Katschner, Isabel Costes, Daniel Martínez, and Ralf Popken.
Rosina Herrera has appeared in both symphony and chamber music concerts in Germany, France, Switzerland, Mexico and Cyprus as well as in numerous Spanish cities. On the opera stage, she has performed as Serpina in Pergolesi’s Serva Padrona, as Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice, a Mahagonny girl in Brecht/Weill’s Mahagonny opera, Rosalia in West Side Story, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Tebaldo in Don Carlos, Oberto in Handel’s Alcina, Radamanto in Graun’s L’Orfeo and Ignacio de Loyola in the Columbian baroque opera “Mission San Francisco Javier”.
Among her current appearances are the role of Fasca in the world premiere of Canarian composer Lothar Siemens Hernández’s opera “El moro de la Patera” and the Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
The Spanish soprano is an ardent ambassador of Spanish music and has participated in recordings and world premieres of works by contemporary Spanish composers, such as the duos for guitar and voice and menuets by Canarian composer Luís Cobiella Cuevas (b. 1925).
