Through Ariana Vafadari’s voice rises a song of commitment, dedicated to the women of Iran, minorities, and all those who are silenced. A vibrant ode to freedom and feminine strength. Blending purity and delicacy, her music reveals a rare beauty, where ancient traditions engage with the present, and influences from ancient Persia resonate.
A mezzo-soprano with a deep timbre and also a composer, she creates sonic epics that blend traditional, classical, and jazz music, where Zoroastrian wisdom poetically illuminates our contemporary questions; she chose to set to music and record the millennia-old poems of Zoroaster, the Gathas, based on the maqams—this system of Eastern scales—while also drawing inspiration from classical music and jazz. Her works Anahita and GATHAS, songs my father taught me, and 4Femmes (commissioned by Cartier for the Dubai World Expo) have allowed her to perform on major stages such as the Nice Opera, the Bordeaux Opera, the Fes Festival of Sacred Music, the Théâtre de la Ville, Strasbourg Cathedral, the Namur Festival (Belgium), the World Spirit Festival in Nagaur and Jodhpur (India), the Bombay Beach Biennale in California, San Francisco, and the Burning Man Festival (Nevada), and to garner media recognition.
She collaborates with the Debussy Quartet and has blended her music with electronic music through
Classical singing :
After studying engineering, Ariana Vafadari was gratuated from the Academy of Music (CNSM) in Paris, studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, and has taken classes at the Actor’s Studio. Her concert work in Japan, Brazil, the US or Europe includes the Stabat Mater of Pergolese, Les Nuits d'Eté of Berlioz, the Requiem of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Folk Songs of Berio, Britten, Sheherazade of Ravel, Les Chants d'Auvergne of Canteloube or Songs and Dances of Death of Moussorgksy with the soloists of the Philharmonic of Saint Petersbourg, the Pays de Loire Orchestra, or the Auvergne Orchestra.
She sings baroc music as well as contemprary music, ans sings in recital with Claire Désert, Emmanuel Strosser...(in France, in Japon, in Germany, in Italy...). Her opera roles includes Nancy (Albert Herring of Britten), Nerone (L’Incoronazione di Poppea of Monteverdi), Proserpina (Orfeo of Monteverdi), Dido and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas of Purcell), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte of Mozart) at the Toulon Opéra, in Terre et Cendres, of Jérôme Combier for the Lyon Opéra, in La Pellegrina at the Dijon Opéra, Leyla (Leyla et Majnûn of Armand Amar) at Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg, at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscou and at Salle Pleyel of Paris...