João Aboim
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My Contact Number:
07473472800
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Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2018 |
Director
Music & Singing |
Così fan Tutte Instant Opera |
Nosmansfield Theatre |
2018 |
Assistant Director
Music & Singing |
Il Prigioniero Virgilio Sieni / Opera di Firenze - Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
Opera di Firenze - Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
2018 |
Assistant Director
Music & Singing |
Cardillac Valerio Binasco / Opera di Firenze - Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
Opera di Firenze - Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
2018 |
Assistant Director
Event |
Falstaff Marco Gandini / Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla |
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2017 |
Assistant Director
Event |
La Bohéme Bruno Ravella / Opera di Firenze - Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
Opera di Firenze - Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
2017 |
Director
Event |
Don Giovanni Instant Opera |
Normansfield Theatre |
2017 |
Assistant Director
Event |
Bruno Ravella / Royal Academy of Music |
Rudolph Steiner House/Royal Academy of Music |
2017 |
Assistant Director
Event |
Faust Sir David McVicar / Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
2016 |
Assistant Director
Event |
Nabucco Leo Muscato / Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
2016 |
Assistant Director
Event |
La Bohème Lorenzo Mariani / Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino |
2016 |
Assistant Director
Event |
Medea Francesco Micheli / Macerata Opera Festival |
Sferisterio di Macerata |
2016 |
Assistant Director
Event |
Norma Ugo Giacomazzi/Luigi di Gangi / Macerata Opera Festival |
Sferisterio di Macerata |
2016 |
Assistant Director (intern)
Event |
Carmen Franco Zeffirelli / Fondazione Arena di Verona |
Arena di Verona |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2016 | Master's Degree in Opera Directing | Verona opera Academy |
2014 | Movement and Voice for Actors | Act - School for actors, Lisbon |
2013 | Masters in Musical Performance | University of Aveiro |
2005 | BMus (Hons) | Royal College of Music |
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About me
I have a degree in Music from the Royal College of Music and a Masters in Opera Directing from Verona Opera Academy. I've been working for Theatre, Opera and Cinema as a musician, actor, co-director and assistant director for the past 10 years. I bring together the know-how and experience of music and theatre, being able to coach, direct and advise both actors, singers and musicians, alongside having strong organisational skills that allow me to work as assistant to the director or as deputy stage manager. My drive is to work mainly as a director in the long term so I thrive to be resourceful and imaginative in every task I pursue always aiming to find a creative, constructive and fast resolution to every challenge. I've worked alongside different directors as assistant director and I've adapted well to different working aesthetics. I speak five different languages which helps to create bridges and facilitate work in an international environment.Additional skills:
Fluent in: English, Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish
Professional Pianist
Actor
Referees:
Bruno Ravella - Director (contact available on request)
Marina Dardani - Stage Manager (contact available on request)
Lorenzo Mariani - Director (contact available on request)
Pierangelo Conte - Artistic Director (contact available on request)
Music professional:
I was born in Lisbon and started playing the piano at the early age of 5. By the age of 10 I was performing Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor with the local youth orchestra. This performance caught the attention of the pianist Maria João Pires who became my teacher for many years. My first professional engagement at the age of 15 was performing a Mozart Concerto with the Oporto National Orchestra conducted by Michael Zilm for the re-opening of the Rivoli Theatre. I've performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, conducted by Michael Zilm and Lawrence Foster. In 2000, I won a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London where I also became an RCM Foundation Scholar.
After graduating in 2005, I went on studying Theatre as well as the use of Voice and Body in performance arts and soon gained work in a range of theatre productions as an actor, musician and composer.
As an actor I had my first experience in cinema in the acclaimed film ‘Adeus, Pai’, directed by Luís Filipe Rocha. The same year I began working in theatre as a répétiteur for Kurt Weill’s songs in a production by the Artistas Unidos company in Lisbon. I've since continued to work professionally in film and theatre productions with the main companies in Portugal. My performing skills have enabled me to develop a unique performance language which is expressed in several original productions, such as those co-created with fellow actors and directors for theatres around Portugal, most notably the Almada Festival. In 2013 I composed the original music for the production ‘Sala VIP’ by the Artistas Unidos for the same festival.
In 2016 I finished an MA in Opera Direction at the Verona Opera Academy in Italy as a Calouste Gulbenkian Young Artist Scholar. I've worked as Assistant Director in a range of opera houses such as the Florence Opera House Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Verona Arena and Macerata Opera Festival. I've worked alongside directors such as Francesco Micheli, Lorenzo Mariani and Leo Muscato in productions like Norma, Medea, La Bohème and Nabucco. My most recent work was as Assistant Director to Bruno Ravella in the revival of Royal Opera House’s production of Gounod’s Faust by Sir David McVicar.
Additional skills:
Five languages: English, Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish
Referees:
Oliver Gooch (contact upon request)
License & Passport
Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
Secondary Job Title | Assistant Director |
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Job Titles | Director, 1st AD (Assistant Director), Stage Manager, Music Director, Creative Director, Casting Assistant, Talent Manager, Voice / Dialect Coach, Teacher |
Years in industry | 6+ years |
Work Permits | EU |