Candida Guida

Coached by Raina Kabaivanska in Siena and in Sofia, and by Bernadette Manca di Nissa and Marjana Lipovšek, Candida Guida received a diploma from the Orazio Vecchi Institute in Modena in 2008. Her repertoire reaches from Handel, Vivaldi and the Baroque sacred literature through Rossini and the nineteenth century to contemporary writing, and she has performed music by Pergolesi and Leonardo Leo. Her recordings include Italian sacred and secular repertory, among them music by Luigi Guida. She comes from Vico Equense and took her first diploma at the Salerno Conservatory, later specialising in Baroque singing with Antonio Florio in Naples, where she qualified in 2012. Her stage roles include Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and Bradamante in Alcina. In 2010 she received first prize at the Francesco Albanese competition.