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LORENA BARICALLA:
The Voice And Grace Of Monaco
Lorena Baricalla is a multi-talented artist and a very graceful woman. Being a Prima ballerina, singer and actress, she has also realized herself as a renowned choreographer, writer and producer.
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Born into a family of Monaco since 5 generations and having lived in Monte Carlo all her life, she graced the stages of more than 40 countries with her performances and created a number of choreographies for theatre, television and important events, performing them at an international level with a cast of up to 100 suppor ting artists.
Inspired by her mother who is also a ballet dancer who later turned a Ballet Teacher. Lorena developed an unrelenting interest in ballet at the age of 4, trained and groomed under Marika Besobrasova the famous monegasque dancer and a ballet teacher, who founded and the head of Princess Grace Classical Dance Academy in Montecarlo.
Lorena danced with the famous “Lord of the Dance” Rudolf Nureyev and Frederic Olivieri who is now the director of La Scala de Milan along with the amazing danc- er Eric Vua An from the Opera de Paris. She also danced with many varied roles in Ballet Montecarlo including the Monaco National Day for the Prince of Monaco. She toured with Ballet de Montecarlo and acquired amazing performances and have dazzled audiences world wide.
Lorena decided to leave the Ballet Company to create her own Production company in order to grow more as an artist. She became a Choreographer as she enjoys working on others, to create her visions and making it to reality. In 2000 it is not common for an artist like herself to have her own production compa ny and to be a and she was one of few women who hold this role in Europe. She teamed up with her Manager Tino Genovese, who drove the company, realising many big mega shows. From here, her singing career was born. Lorena became a and enjoy being in a Ballet and singing.
What inspire you as an artist?
What has been the highlight of your time with ballet de montecarlo?
Tell us about your ballet method?
I created this Method Russe de Monte Carlo for Ballet Schools and Younger Bal lerinas. There are special courses for Ballet Teachers in order for them to execute the proper use of my method. The method is an approach to the classical ballet com bining my vision of how to teach, how to transmit the information to a lerina, how to speak about the body, mind and soul of an artist. I the Ballet World these 3 levels are vital of a Great Ballet Dancer and need to work on and Often this is not the usual vision in Ballet. My Method will be given as an academic program, consists of 14 levels from 4 years to 18 years so they grow every year with clear academic program that they can achieve and the goal is to be a Great Professional Baller Dancer. There are few different schools in Italy and in France who are following my program.
You have moved into acting and master of the ceremony?
This is something I am quite excited about as I really wanted to act as I did acting classes in the past and I’m really focusing on stage musicals combining my ballet and singing. I’m also pretty open to sing lyrical like tosca, madame butterfly or pucini. Being on stage, has opened doors for me in the world of Master of the Ceremony presenting the Famous World Sport Legends Award Event in 5 languages. Preparation on the Way for the upcoming World Sport Legends Award and this should be the longest Red Carpet everyone will see about 40meters long.
The next World Sport Legends Award will be already the 5th Edition and back in Full Swing after Covid. This is really one big adventure. We created the concept of this award and have been so successful since the beginning attended by many sports legend World wide coming from different walks of life in sports and who really wanted to be part of this event with the likes of Mario Andretti a Big name in F1 industry and one of the american dynasties who came to receive this award. We will be honouring 30 important champions. The biggest ones who have won 12 times in their sector, world championships, olympic games.
• There will be a huge collection of important and inspiring personalities. Red Carpet will be Full ON with Glamour with a dash and aura of elegance from the late Princess Grace.
• We really wanted to give everyone the essence, the Glitz and Glamour of Montecarlo.
You became an author what inspires you to write a book?
It really started when I produced a project in titled “Origin, The answer”. The project was born with Big shows in Mind and for Big Venues, Arenas and not for theaters. The Preparation of this show was Mega Huge, with so many years of work along with Big Team, a new concept, big budget, a new world. A world of Scifi like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or Games of Thrones and it involves many years of hard work on this project and still on development to this day. We are hoping eventually this will end up in movie theatres for sure the interest is there. Based on this project which I wrote the script, allowed me to collect a lot of information, learnt a lot from mesopotamian tablet to quantum theories to create the plot and from here I decided to write a book. The Plot of my book is Epic Fantasy which brings spiritual and epic Saga, adventure, Swashbuckling and big Value of People in universal way. The book is sacred, EPIC its like a Bible … and you need to read the 3 books to get the grasp and give you the best understanding. Its going to be a Blockbuster if it will go to Movie.
So what’s next for you?
I have recently worked with one of the most important Italian Television production company who produced most channels in Italy. I collaborated with the project filming from Monaco to Marseille to be televised and on air during the first quarter of 2023 and I was one of GUEST in the program along with some famous WOMEN Personalities in Italy, Sandra Milo, Mara Maionchi and Marisa Laurito. Appearances as a Singing Judge for young upcoming stars in a competition in Villefrance Sur Mer organised by famous producer from London.
3 different movie projects still in the process
Performances Project like going to Uruguay and will tour American Television Promotion of Triology of the Book
Dances in the Summer of 2023 two New Solos like Swan Lake and Carmen that I created using my Classical Ballet Roles
What is your plan for 2023 or what would you like to achieve in the next year to come?
There are many Goals but the prime objective is to achieve the TV program that we are currently developing partnering with American Television.
To realise, The Life in Movie of Musical Shows of Henry James. This will involve Arenas, country and city like Las Vegas or Emirates and Project needed Millions of investment. I wanted to realise my desire to be an actress to be able to appear in the movie to be Produced by Julius R Nasso. However, in the end I would really like to appear back in Dancing and Singing.