Photo: Nicolas Lambecq Photographie

Dima Bakri

Primary Skill:

Mezzo-Soprano

Nationality:

Palestinian

Country:

Italy

Languages (fluent):

English, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew

Opera

Cornelia
Giulio Cesare (George Frideric Handel)
OPERUS
2026
Nerone
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
Ensemble Orquesta Opera Academy
2023
Ruggiero
Alcina (Handel)
Handel Opera Academy
2023
Cornelia
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
Venice Music Project
2020
Silvio
Zenobia Regina de Palmireni (Tomaso Albinoni)
Teatro La Fenice
2018
Venere/ Musa d'Apollo
Gli Amori d'apollo e di Dafne (Cavalli)
Venice Opera Project
2014

Contemporary Opera

1st Alto Chorus & soloist
Welcome Wanderer - Oceano antico (Matteo Nasini)
Ocean space exhibition, biennale venezia 2022
2022
1st Alto Chorus & soloist
Moving Still (Martha Gentilucci)
Biennale Musica Venezia 2021
2021

Oratorio/Concerts

Solist mezzosoprano
Theresienmesse (Haydn)
Orpheus Ensemble concert tour
2019
Solist mezzosoprano
Gloria (Vivaldi)
Orpheus Ensemble concert tour
2019

Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled

Concerto, Palazzo Pisani, Venezia, Italia. Photo: Luigi Fardella

England, UK

Excellent Interpretation Special Prize Award - Vivaldi International Competition 2022

F.Cavalli, Gli Amori d'apollo e di Dafne, Venice, 2014

First Prize Award with Excellence Nomination - Vivaldi International Competition 2022

Golden Medal - Special Award - Baroque Music Prize - Vienna International Music Competition 2023

Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Nerone, England, UK. Photo: Peter Mould

Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Nerone, England, UK. Photo: Peter Mould

Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Nerone, England, UK. Photo: Peter Mould

📍Musikverein, Vienna

Nicolas Lambecq Photographie

Opera " Standing Still" by Martha Gentilucci, Biennale Musica Venezia 2021

Photo : Clémence Gachot-Coniglio

Photo: Giuseppe Nalin

Soloist with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra

Special Jury Prize Award - Vienna International Music Competition 2025

Tomaso Albinoni, Opera Zenobia Queen of the Palmyrans, Teatro la Fenice Production, venice, italy

Tomaso Albinoni, Opera Zenobia Queen of the Palmyrans, Teatro la Fenice Production, venice, italy

Tomaso Albinoni, Opera Zenobia Queen of the Palmyrans, Teatro la Fenice Production, venice, italy

M.A ( master) degree of Baroque & renaissance singing
Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello di Venezia
2019–2022
B.Mus music degree in Canto Lirico, Opera Singing
Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello di Venezia
2015–2018
Classical piano B.Mus
Academy of Music & Dance Jerusalem
2004–2009

Dima is the only Arab singer in the world specializing in European historical music ( Musica Antica) . and the first Palestinian Mezzosoprano.
She is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance in Classical Piano Performance, and a graduate of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music in Venice ,Italy, with a degree in Opera Singing (Lirica) and a Master degree in Renaissance and Baroque Singing. Her final Thesis discusses and analyses the Lament Of Zaida Mora of Luigi Rossi.
She had numerous performances in her homeland, Italy and England. And participated in numerous Master-classes with renowned artists such as the Maestro Leone Magiera, Bruno de Simone, Alan Curtis, Sara Mingardo, Urlike Sonntag, Bernhard Renzikowski, Drew Minter, Raffaele Pe and others. performed under many conductors including Mendi Rodan and Serggio Alapont.
She was trained by Pianists, Conductors, several italian Opera singers and Broque Professionals .

Her Performances as soloist : Venere/Musa, Opera The Loves of Apollo and Daphne, Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne, F.Cavalli, Venice Opera Project 2014, Venice, Italy. her Debute with the role of Silvio, Opera Zenobia Queen of the Palmyrans, Zenobia regina de' Palmireni, Tomaso Albinoni, La Fenice Production 2018, Teatro Malibran, Venice, Italy.
Haydn's mass in B-flat major, Theresienmesse, 2018-2019 Concert Tour, Nazareth, Haifa & Galilee. Brahms' Alto Raphsody Op.53, Haifa 2019. Vivaldi's Gloria Mass, 2019-2020 Concert Tour, Nazareth, Haifa, Galilee. Haendel, Cornelia, Giulio Cesare, Venice Music Project, 2020, Venice, Italy. Venezia Porta D'oriente, La musica e la via della seta, Oriental Music 2021, Venezia. Festival Giovanni Morelli 2021, Un cielo nascosto, Venezia. Moving Still, Contemporary Opera by Martha Gentilucci, premiere, Biennale Musica 2021, Venezia. Giovanni Legrenzi, Tedeum , 2022, Venice, Italy. Nerone, Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, with OrQuesta Ensemble 2023, Rye, England, United Kingdom. And several recitals.

Chamber Music & Choirs: Love & death in Venice, Barbara Strozzi Music, Venice Opera Project 2014, Venice, Italy. J.Brahms, Fünf Duette Op.66, Art Night Venezia 2016, l'arte libera la notte. Gaetano Donizetti, Opera Lucia di Lammermoor, 2017-2018, Teatro Mario del Monaco, Treviso and Teatro Claudio Abbado, Ferrara, Italy. Niccolò Piccinni, Opera The Kingdom of the Moon, Il Regno della Luna ,La Fenice Production 2018, Teatro Malibran, Venice, Italy. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, 2018-2019 tournée, Teatro Mario del Monaco, Treviso, Teatro Claudio Abbado, Ferrara and Teatro Pergolesi, Jesi, Toscana, Italy. Giovanni Legrenzi, Mass for 16 voices, 2022, Venice, Italy. Welcome Wanderer, contemporary music by Matteo Nassini, Ocean Space, 2022,Venezia.

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