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Beatriz de Sousa Portrait

Beatriz de Sousa appeared this season as Adina in L'Elisir d'amore at - Opera de Tenerife and Tbilisi National Opera and Ballet. Her upcoming projects include Elvira in I Puritani, Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice, Giulietta in Les Contes d'Hoffmann as well as Adina in L'elisir d'amore at Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Beatriz de Sousa Portrait

She also appeared as Corinna in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival, Anima Ingrata in Monteverdi's Il ballo delle ingrate at Dutch National Opera and Brighton Festival, Galatea in Acis and Galatea for Kolarac National Hall in Belgrade, Lucy in The Telephone for the Gulbenkian Foundation and Pamina in Die ZauberflÖte with Escales Lyriques in France, as well as in several productions in Austria.

This led her to work with conductors and stage directors such as Alberto Zedda, Carlo Rizzi, Antonio Méndez Michele Spotti, Pierre Audi, Lotte de Beer, Mario Pontiggia and Pablo Maritano among others.

Beatriz de Sousa as Adina

Born in Lisbon, early on she moved abroad to study with the soprano Dolors Aldea at the Conservatorio del Liceu in Barcelona and later at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with the tenor Rainer Trost. She also studied with the soprano Sylvia Greenberg and the pianist David Aronson. Beatriz received several scholarships from the Gulbenkian Foundation through the ENOA Young Opera Makers Training Program, which allowed her to complement her artistic development through masterclasses with renowned musicians who inspired and guided her path such as Giulio Zappa, Alberto Zedda, Mariella Devia, Emilio Pons, Marijana Mijanović and Christiane Iven.

Beatriz de Sousa as Adina

Beatriz was also awarded the 2nd prize of the singing competition Compostela Lirica 2019 in Santiago de Compostela as well as the 2nd prize and the Mozart prize of the Grandi Voci Competition 2018 in Salzburg.



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