What is "silvana"

Silvana may refer to:

• Silvana Arbia (born 1952), Italian judge and prosecutor
• Silvana Arias (born 1982), Peruvian actress
• Silvana Armenulić (1938–1976), Yugoslav singer and songwriter
• Sylvana Foa (born 1945), American journalist and spokesperson
• Silvana Franco (born 1968), British chef
• Silvana Gallardo (1953–2012), American actress
• Sylvana Gómez, Guatemalan beach volleyball player
• Silvana Jachino (1916–2004), Italian actress
• Silvana Koch-Mehrin (born 1970), German politician
• Silvana Mangano (1930–1989), Italian actress
• Silvana Pampanini (born 1925), Italian actress
• Silvana Paternostro, Colombian journalist
• Silvana Santaella (born 1983), Venezuelan beauty pageant
• Silvana Sciarra (born 1948), Italian judge
• Silvana Suárez (born 1958), Argentinian beauty pageant
• Silvana Tirinzoni (born 1979), Swiss curler
• Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews (born 1957), Canadian historian

Silvana, J. 87, is an opera by Carl Maria von Weber, first performed in Frankfurt am Main on 16 September 1810. The libretto, by , is a reworking of an earlier, unsuccessful opera by Weber, . Weber also reused music from the same piece in Silvana.

Weber used a melody from a discarded aria for the opera to compose the popular Seven Variations on a Theme from Silvana for clarinet and piano. He used the same melody for the theme-and-variations first movement of his Sonata No. 5 in A major (from the for piano and violin obbligato, J 99-104).

A silvana is a Filipino dessert. It is a frozen cookie made from a layer of buttercream sandwiched between two cashew- meringue wafers coated with cookie crumbs.

The silvana is the cookie version of the Sans rival, a Filipino cake made up of similar ingredients.