"...SHE IS ALL CRYSTALLINE TONE AND SPINE-TINGLING HIGH NOTES”
—TIM ASHLEY, THE GUARDIAN
EXCITING AND ACCLAIMED YOUNG BRITISH SOPRANO
DIARY
Winner of the Susan Chilcott Award (2017) and an inaugural Honorary Associate Artist of the RNCM (2021), British-Iranian Soprano Soraya Mafi is fast establishing herself as one of the most captivating performers of her generation. Soraya concludes her 2021/22 season making her role and company debut as Morgana in Glyndebourne’s first ever production of Handel’s Alcina. Previously this season, Soraya performed the role of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro for The Seattle Opera. Seattle Times Gavin Borchet commented:
“The vocal highlight, recipient of Saturday’s warmest ovation, was “Deh vieni non tardar,” Susanna’s Act IV serenade; Mafi and Ioffe stretched the closing phrases seductively and poignantly, as if reluctant to let the moment go.”
This season, she has also performed the role of Despina for English National Opera, Anne Trulove for Glyndebourne on tour and Echo for The Edinburgh International Festival.
Future engagements include further roles for Glyndebourne, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Garsington Opera and Grange Park Opera and debuts for the Opéra de Rouen Normandie and the Opernhaus Zürich.
“A BUDDING HANDELIAN OF THE HIGHEST CALIBRE”
—THE SUNDAY TIMES
DISCOGRAPHY
Barber: The Complete Songs Label: Resonus Release date: 4 May 2022 Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano) Mary Bevan (soprano) Samantha Clarke (soprano) Jess Dandy (contralto) Louise Kemény (soprano) Soraya Mafi (soprano) Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone) Dominic Sedgewick (bass) Nicky Spence (tenor) William Thomas (bass) Navarra String Quartet Dylan Perez (piano) https://www.resonusclassics.com/products/samuel-barber-the-complete-songs
Gilbert & Cellier: The Mountebanks & Suite Symphonique World Premiere Recordings Soraya Mafi (Teresa), Thomas Elwin (Alfredo), James Cleverton (Arrostino), Sharon Carty (Minestra), John-Colyn Gyeantey (Risotto), Catherine Carby (Nita), John Savournin (Bartolo), Geoffrey Dolton (Pietro), Madeleine Shaw (Ultrice), Martin Lamb (Elvino) BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers
Decades: A Century of Song Vol. 3 1830 - 1840 John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Alexey Gusev (bass-baritone), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Soraya Mafi (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Edinburgh International Festival) – Gantner, Röschmann, Gantner, Quasthoff, Huskinson, Manu, Morison, Redpath, Butt Philip, Barnett-Jones, McGovern, Sprague, Huskinson, Mafi, Hopkins, Brenda Rae, Manu, Dladla, Röschmann, Rea, Bronder (soloists), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lothar Koenigs. Released 2021. Label: Linn Records. CKD689[58]
![Dibdin & Garrick: The Jubilee – Simon Butteriss (Artist), Stephen Higgins (Artist), Soraya Mafi (Artist), Heather Shipp (Artist), Robert Murray (Artist). Released 2019. Label: Retrospect Opera. RO006[56]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62960064bbd09b750b76ff06/88cc4aa9-368f-4091-81f5-b3b5dfc8d196/Jubilee_front_cover-600x539.jpeg)
Dibdin & Garrick: The Jubilee – Simon Butteriss (Artist), Stephen Higgins (Artist), Soraya Mafi (Artist), Heather Shipp (Artist), Robert Murray (Artist). Released 2019. Label: Retrospect Opera. RO006[56]
Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 37: Vive La France! Debussy & Saint-Saëns Sergei Redkin (soloist), Jamina Gerl (soloist), Mao Fujita (soloist), Inga Fiolia (soloist), Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto (soloist), Graham Johnson (soloist), Soraya Mafi (soloist), François le Roux (soloist), Sarah Fox (soloist), Victor Julien-Laffarière (soloist), Théo Fouchenneret (soloist), Mi-Sa...
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Il sogno di Scipione, K126 – Dramatic Serenade to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio [performed using Bärenreiter’s New Mozart Edition; sung in Italian]
Scipione – Stuart Jackson
Costanza – Klara Ek
Fortuna– Soraya Mafi
Publio – Krystian Adam
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Mozart Il sogno di Scipione, K126 – Dramatic Serenade to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio [performed using Bärenreiter’s New Mozart Edition; sung in Italian] Scipione – Stuart Jackson Costanza – Klara Ek Fortuna– Soraya Mafi Publio – Krystian Adam Emilio – Robert Murray Licenza – Chiara Skerath Choir & Orchestra of Classical Opera Ian Page Recorded 16-19 October 2016 in the Church of St Augustine, Kilburn, London
![Menotti: The Telephone (Edinburgh International Festival) – Soraya Mafi (Lucy), Jonathan McGovern (Ben), The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Stuart Stratford. Released 2020. Label: Linn Records. CKD670[57]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62960064bbd09b750b76ff06/5cd9052f-80fe-4a1a-a413-cf0303af9aa3/cover-CKD670.jpeg)
Menotti: The Telephone (Edinburgh International Festival) – Soraya Mafi (Lucy), Jonathan McGovern (Ben), The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Stuart Stratford. Released 2020. Label: Linn Records. CKD670[57]
