Flaka Goranci (born in Gjakova- Kosovo) is a Kosovo- Austrian

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Early life

Flaka Goranci was born in Gjakove, Kosovo to Flamur Goranci an

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and a mother Doctor of Endocrinology and Internist Ilirjana Hana Goranci. At an early age she started studying Piano at her home town in Gjakova and as 9 years old she won the kids singing contest ''Zeri me i bukur femijeror''.

Education and career

She studied opera singing at the University of Arts (Tirana) in Albania and after she continued her master studies at the

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at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Goranci began her international career after moving to Vienna. She worked with Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Kuhn, Ulrich Windfuhr, Pawel Poplawski, Enrico Delamboye, Manfred Mayrhofer, among others. With opera directors like Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Stephen Lawless, Carlos Wagner, Niv Hoffman, Andrea Zogg, Ulrich Schulz, Dani Ehrlich and Michal Grover Friedlander. She performed with

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Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra ( hr, Dubrovački simfonijski orkestar) is a professional musical orchestra from the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia and the chief musical representative of the Dubrovnik region. In its work it carries on with the musica ...

Kosovo Philharmonic Classical music in Kosovo refers to the art music cultivated in Kosovo. The roots of classical music in Kosovo are found in the 1940s and include the time period from the times when Kosovo was part of Yugoslavia to this day. It can be said that th ...

, Macedonian philharmonic Orchestra, Albanian Symphonic Orchestra and more. She has performed at Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Theater an der Wien,

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, Konzerthaus Berlin, Magdeburg Theatre, National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, among others.

Repertoire

Her repertoire includes roles of Carmen

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

, Charlotte Werther, Maria

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a tango opera by Astor Piazzolla Jenny

Die Dreigroschenoper ''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music b ...

, Dido Dido and Aeneas, Cherubino Le Nozze Di Figaro, Dorabella

Così fan tutte (''All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers''), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte w ...

, Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Olga

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, Venus Tannhäuser, Amneris Aida, Ulrica Un ballo in maschera, Third wood sprite Rusalka (opera), among others. Her

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repertoire includes also works by

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, Alma Mahler,

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

, Clara Schumann,

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

, Luciano Berio,

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fru ...

and more.

Discography

Despite her operatic and concert career she has been engaged as a singer but also as a

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and

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in both her CD projects. In 2015 her first CD ''Albanian Flowers'' with rearranged old songs from Albania and Kosovo was released by

Gramola Gramola is an Austrian music company founded in 1924, an offshoot of the British-Czech record producer of the same name. The Austrian Gramola focuses on classical music. It initially focused on Austrian composers such as Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Am ...

in Vienna. Her second CD ''La Femme'' A Journey of Female Composers was produced in 2022 by Naxos. This cultural/diplomatic album which brings the stories and music of Women Composers from Middle East to Balkans, South America, South Africa and European countries as well, reached an international attention and was nominated in three categories by

Opus Klassik ''Opus'' (pl. ''opera'') is a Latin word meaning "work". Italian equivalents are ''opera'' (singular) and ''opere'' (pl.). Opus or OPUS may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publicatio ...

in Berlin in 2023 - ''The best singer of the year'', ''Klassik ohne Grenzen'' and ''The Best Video'' with ''The Window'' https://www.musicwebinternational.com/2023/01/la-femme-a-journey-of-female-composers-naxos/

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goranci, Flaka Living people Kosovan women singers 21st-century Austrian women opera singers Albanian women singers Albanian composers Kosovan composers Albanian women composers Kosovan women composers Year of birth missing (living people)