Dima is the only Arab singer in the world specializing in European historical music (Musica Antica & Baroque ) 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 by the seventeenth-century composer Luigi Rossi.
She has participated in numerous Masterclasses with renowned artists, such as the Maestri Leone Magiera, Bruno de Simone, Alan Curtis, Sara Mingardo, Ulrike Sonntag, Bernhard Renzikowski, Drew Minter, Raffaele Pe, Sonia Prina, Roberto Jachini Virgili, and others. She has performed under many conductors including Mendi Rodan and Sergio Alapont. trained by pianists, conductors, several Italian Opera singers and Baroque Professionals.
Composer
Role
Opera/
Composition
Year
Location
Claudio Monteverdi
Nerone
L’incoronazione di Poppea
OrQuesta Ensemble
2023
Rye, England, United Kingdom
Francesco Cavalli
Venere
Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne
Venice Music Project
2014
Venice, Italy
Barbara Strozzi
Soloist
Festival Giovanni Morelli
Un cielo nascosto
2021
Venice, Italy
Barbara Strozzi
Chamber
Venice Music Project
2014
Venice,Italy
Giovanni Legrenzi
Soloist
Tedeum for 8
voices
2022
Venice, Italy
Giovanni Legrenzi
Coro
Mass for 16 voices
2022
Venice, Italy
Tomaso Albinoni
Silvio
Zenobia regina de’ Palmireni
La Fenice Production, Teatro Malibran
2018
Venice, Italy
Antonio Vivaldi
Soloist
Gloria RV 589
Orpheus Concert Tour
2019-2020
Nazareth,
Haifa & Galilee
Antonio Vivaldi
Soloist
Stabat Mater
RV 621
2021
Venice, Italy
Georg Friedrich Händel
Ruggiero
Alcina
Handel Opera Academy,Tarnogorskie Centrum Kultury
2023
Tarnowskie Góry, Poland
Georg Friedrich Händel
Cornelia
Giulio Cesare
Venice Music Project
2020
Venice, Italy
Niccolò Piccinni
Coro
Il Regno della Luna
La Fenice Production Teatro Malibran
2018
Venice, Italy
Joseph Haydn
Soloist
Theresienmesse Mass in B-flat major, Hob.XXII:12
Orpheus Concert Tour
2018-2019
Nazareth, Haifa & Galilee
W.A.Mozart
Artista del Coro
Le nozze di Figaro
Teatro Mario del Monaco, Teatro Claudio Abbado & Teatro Pergolesi
2018-2019
Treviso, Ferrara, Jesi, Toscana, Italy
Gaetano Donizetti
Artista del Coro
Lucia di Lammermoor
Teatro Mario del Monaco, Teatro Claudio Abbado
2017-2018
Treviso, Ferrara ,Italy
Johannes Brahms
Chamber
Fünf Duette
Op.66
Art Night Venezia Festival, l’arte libera la notte
2016
Venice, Italy
Johannes Brahms
Soloist
Alto Rhapsody Op. 53
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
2019
Haifa
Martha Gentilucci
Soloist
Moving Still
Contemporary Opera
Biennale Musica, La Biennale di Venezia
2021
Venice, Italy
Matteo Nassini
Soloist
Welcome Wanderer Contemporary Opera
Ocean Space, La Biennale di Venezia
2022
Venice, Italy
Alex Cecchetti
Soloist
Cetaceans Contemporary
Opera
Ocean Space, La Biennale di Venezia Opening
2024
Venice, Italy
Oriental Music
Composers
Soloist
Venezia Porta D'oriente,
La musica e la via della seta CONCERT
2021
Venice, Italy
Johann Sebastian Bach
Chamber
BWV 244 " Erbarme dich"
Festival Barocco Delle Marche 2024, Teatro Comunale di Montecarotto.
2024
Montecarotto, Marche, Italy
Dima Bakri’s biography graces the pages of Operabase, chronicling her remarkable journey through the world of opera and chamber music.
Dima Bakri, Mezzo-soprano – Biography, Performances, Videos and Repertoire on Operabase