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SARA BRAGA SIMÕES, SOPRANO |
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Sara Braga Simões studied at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, in Oporto. In 2001 she joined for four years the Opera Studio in Casa da Musica - Oporto. During these years she studied with Manuela Bigail, Rui Taveira, Peter Harrison and Jeff Cohen. She won the second Prize of the 2005 Edition of Luisa Todi National Singing Competion (Portugal) and the Best performance of XX Century Music and Scholarship Jaume Aragall in the I Iberic Voices international Singing Competion. Operatic Roles include Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro - Mozart), Zerlina (Don Giovanni - Mozart), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel - E. Humperdinck), Despina (Così fan Tutte - W.A. Mozart), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw - B. Britten), Lauretta (La Donna di Génio Volubile - Marcos Portugal), Spinalba (La Spinalba - F. António de Almeida), Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty - O. Respighi), Marta (Os Fugitivos - José Eduardo Rocha), Jenny ( Three sisters who are not sisters - N. Rorem), Rowan (The Little Sweep - B. Britten), Madame Robin (Le Fifre enchanté - J. Offenbach), Mathurine (L'ivrogne Corrigé - Gluck) and Volpino (Lo Speziale - J. Haydn). In concert Sara has performed in Spain, France and Andorra. She sang E vo - Berio, Trois poèmes de Stephan Mallarmé - M.Ravel, Nuits d'étè - H.Berlioz, Te Deum - Dvorack, Madrigals (Book I) - George Crumb, Shîr - João Pedro Oliveira*, D'une saison. l'autre - A. Lemeland*, Lacrymosa - Yanov-Yanovsky, Magnificat, Dixit Dominus and Gloria - A.Vivaldi, Credo - D. Pedro IV, The Devil's Suite - Peter Maxwell Davies, Christmas Oratorio - Saint-Saëns, Stabat Mater de G.B.Pergolesi e Haddock's Eyes de David Del Tredici. Sara was directed by Martin André, Cesário Costa, Laurence Cummings, Marc Tardue, Osvaldo Ferreira, Stefan Asbury, Peter Rundell, Ferreira Lobo, Manuel Ivo Cruz, Brad Cohen, Peter Birgamin, Armando Vidal, Jaroslav Mikus, Gunther Arglebe, Yoichi Sugyiana, among others. Engagements for next season include an opera Gala and her debut as Pamina in Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Lisbon opera Theatre and Pedro Amaral's opera (world first). CONTACTS
25 August 2007 |
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