La Lupa is a Swiss singer and performer known in the Alps region for her eclectic stage performances while wearing colorful, eccentric costumes.[1][2][3]
Biography
She was born Maryli Maura Marconi in the Onsernone valley in the canton of Ticino, on 9 February 1947. She was given the name La Lupa when she was a teenager and kept it as her stage name. When he was 20 years old, she went to Zurich, where she lives.[4][5]
Career
Her first public performance was in 1980, when she played the leading role in the open-air play "Der Suppastai" with singer-songwriter Walter Liethaof in the Arcas-Platz de Chur, Swisscanton of the Grisons.[6] Since then, she has produced around two dozen solo programs, often presented in Zurich spaces such as the Kunsthaus and the Stock Theater, accompanied by musicians Fortunat Frölich, Fabian Müller and Hieronymus Schädler on the stage, under the direction of Polish musician Michal Ratynski.[7]
Her productions and audio recordings include musical renderings from poets like Dante Alighieri, Kahlil Gibran, Guillaume Apollinaire, Angelo Poliziano, Rabindranath Tagore, Hildegard von Bingen, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Francesco Petrarca, Salvatore Quasimodo, Friedrich Schiller, Biagio Marin, and Fernando Pessoa.[8]<
She made a US tour in 1993, during which she performed in New York and Washington, and she also had performances in Stockholm, Paris, Kyiv, Napoli, Venice, Cairo and Amsterdam. In 1992 she performed at the EXPO'92 in Seville. Freshness, fusion of soul and core, ingenuity, and juxtaposed cultural richness are traits mentioned by commentators to describe La Lupa's art.[9][8] La Lupa's own definition of happiness is: "Happiness is when the struggle for life turns into the dance of life."
1984: CAMMINO E CANTO, with instrumental ensemble[13]
1986: L'AMOR CHE SI CONSUMA, with instrumental ensemble[13]
1986: LORELAY, LORELAY, LORELAY, musical by Anne Cuneo for the voice of La Lupa[13]
1987: PASSEGGIATA TRA GLI ANNI 20 E GLI ANNI 50, with instrumental ensemble[13]
1988: NINNA NANNA, lullabies with Nikola Weisse, Urs Senn, viola (reprise 1998)[13]
1988: ANNATA LUCULLO - MUSICALE LUPURZIANA (6 seasons - staged meal with Urzli Senn)[13]
Since 1989: LAMENTI, from the St. Petersturm and Grossmünsterturm, Zurich: She sang these Lamenti (lamentations) from the plague period from Venice for 20 years to remember death during the days before Good Friday.[13]
1989: CUORI, PICCHE E FIORI, with U. Senn, F. Frölich, H. Hassler[13]
1990: Book “LIEDER DER WOLF / CANTA LA LUPA” by Carlo Bernasconi (Swiss publishing house)[13]
1991: AD OCCHI SPERTI SOGNO... with Urzli Senn, Fortunat Frölich, Hans Hassler[13]
1992: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI, concert cycle with the Graubünden Chamber Orchestra, soloist[13]
1993: LA GIRA LA RÖDA - GRAZIE ALLA VITA, with Urzli Senn, Fortunat Frölich, Franco Mettler[13]