mariana rodrigues
Portuguese soprano Mariana Rodrigues is developing a career in Early and Contemporary music, Classical Opera and Art Song, as well as Ensemble singing – where her main interests lie. She is currently in her final year of Undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with a scholarship, studying with Marie Vassiliou and Philip Sunderland.
Recent engagements include a performance in the concert Vivaldi on the Double with the Brandenburg Sinfonia, and the Civil Service Choir, where she sang the soprano solo motet Nulla in mundo pax sincera, Beatus Vir and Dixit Dominus.
Mariana started to develop a reputation in Portuguese contemporary music when she recorded Nuno da Rocha's CD Mesmo que faça frio as Solo Soprano, did the UK premiere of Eu... by Eurico Carrapatoso and performed the main character Dalmira (Peregrina) in the premiere of the Brazilian opera Entremez da Peregrina in collaboration with CESEM.
Since 2019 she has had the pleasure of singing Dido and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell), Venus and Cupid (Venus and Adonis by J. Blow), Galatea (Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel), Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). She has performed the role of Hébè, Phani and Damon (Les Indes Galantes by J. P. Rameau), the last one with Musiektheater Transparant De Singel in Belgium, Solo Soprano in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St. Matthew's and St. John's Passion, Gabriel in Haydn's The Creation as well as Daughter of Zion in Händel's Brockes-Passion.
Recent engagements include a performance in the concert Vivaldi on the Double with the Brandenburg Sinfonia, and the Civil Service Choir, where she sang the soprano solo motet Nulla in mundo pax sincera, Beatus Vir and Dixit Dominus.
Mariana started to develop a reputation in Portuguese contemporary music when she recorded Nuno da Rocha's CD Mesmo que faça frio as Solo Soprano, did the UK premiere of Eu... by Eurico Carrapatoso and performed the main character Dalmira (Peregrina) in the premiere of the Brazilian opera Entremez da Peregrina in collaboration with CESEM.
Since 2019 she has had the pleasure of singing Dido and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell), Venus and Cupid (Venus and Adonis by J. Blow), Galatea (Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel), Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). She has performed the role of Hébè, Phani and Damon (Les Indes Galantes by J. P. Rameau), the last one with Musiektheater Transparant De Singel in Belgium, Solo Soprano in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, St. Matthew's and St. John's Passion, Gabriel in Haydn's The Creation as well as Daughter of Zion in Händel's Brockes-Passion.