Ivonne Haza

Sara María Ivonne Haza del Castillo (Ingenio Angelina, 25 December 1938) is a soprano from the Dominican Republic.

Ivonne Haza was born in Angelina, a batey of a sugar mill in the San Pedro de Macorís Province; her parents were Luis Felipe Haza González, a Cuban immigrant from Matanzas, and Rita Indiana del Castillo y Rodríguez-Objío. The latter was grand-daughter of Manuel Rodríguez Objío.

She is aunt of journalist Oscar Haza and grand-aunt of singer .

Haza studied in the Conservatoire of Santo Domingo and debuted on 13 March 1958 as a singer, in a chamber concert celebrated in the presence of the dictator Rafael Trujillo. For 1961 it studies in the Conservatoire of Music Santa Cecilia in Rome with Elena D'Ambrossio, Inés Alfani-Tellini and Roberto Caggiano.

Haza’s repertoire covers all the genders of vocalic music from operetta and opera going through requiems and symphonic poems until songs and hymns. With the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Dominican Republic she presents under the direction of the Dominican Teachers Manuel Simó, Carlos Piantini, Rafael Villanueva, Julio de Windt, Manuel Marino Miniño and José Antonio Molina and directors of orchestra invited like Roberto Caggiano, Carlos Chávez, Enrique García Asencio, Paul Engel and Robert Carter Austin. Between his musical mates include , Olga Chance, Arístides Incháustegui, Luís Rivera, Roberto Caggiano, Lilliam Column, Jacinto Gimbernard, Luis Cold Sandoval, Rafael Félix Gimbernard, Rafael Sánchez Cestero, Rafael Félix, Manuel Simó, Dagmar White, Creole Hidalgo, Fausto Cepeda, Luis Cold, Rafael Gil Castro, Vito Castorina and Enriquillo Cerón.

Haza sang works of Maurice Ravel, Heitor Villa-Wolves, Lukas Foss, José of Jesús Ravelo, Leo Brouwer and Enrique of Marchena. It formed part of the main roles in the operas like Cavalleria rusticana, The Clowns, The Zarzuelas, Luisa Fernanda, The legend of the kiss and The cafetal . You turn them and performances have carried it to the EE.UU., Puerto Rico, Mexico and Cuba. With the pianista Manuel Rueda participated in the Latin Festival-American of the Arts. In 1988 it participated with the pianista María of Fátima Geraldes in the Festival Cervantino in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. In the same year recorded the CD's Delivery, Jewels of Navidad and Dreams.

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