Teresa Iervolino - La fidanzata del demonio (Romanze da camera di Saverio Mercadante) (2022)

Saverio Mercadante wrote the romance L'araba. He was an adoptive father, the composer of Altamura (1795-1870), and listening to this "daughter" of his in music one can sense an involvement. I come from Arabia and everyone laughs at the color of my skin, the girl sings, they don't understand that inside me there is fire, the heat of the sun.

Teresa Iervolino, mezzo soprano, 33, annoyed by the limits of appearances, is a sister in the spirit of the imaginary exile: "If I play someone who has lost their beloved or their beloved, what does it matter if I am a woman or a man? Am I wearing makeup or makeup? What matters is that my feeling reaches the audience in front of me ".