BIO

Sara Braga Simões as Zerlina, Nicola Ebau as Don Giovanni,
Jorge Martins as Masetto
in Mozart's Don Giovanni

Sara’s versatility has taken her to the main Portuguese theaters, concert halls and music festivals. She has also performed in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Croatia and Slovenia, among other countries.

International reviews praize her impressive range (Opera Now) and outstanding performance (Opera Magazine).

She has an extensive list of exciting opera roles, including Pamina (The Magic Flute), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck), Susanna (Le Nozze di Fígaro), The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Rita (Donizetti), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Despina (Così fan Tutte), among many others, directed by great artists such as Ricardo Pais, Luís Miguel Cintra and João Botelho, for example.

Her concert repertoire includes works such as Mozart's Mass in C minor (for the Gulbenkian Foundation), Händel's Messiah, Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and Britten's Les illuminations (for the Metropolitana Orchestra - Lisbon), Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Poulenc's Gloria and Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem (for the Lisbon Opera House), Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn (for Casa da Música), as well as Orff's Carmina Burana and Berlioz's Les Nuits d'étè, among others.

Sara is often chosen to première works by renowned composers such as Nuno Côrte-Real, Luís Tinoco, Pedro Amaral, João Pedro Oliveira, Anne Victorino de Almeida, Carlos Azevedo, Aubert Lemeland and others. Noteworthy are the premiere of the operas 'o Sonho' by Pedro Amaral, premiered in London with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by the composer himself, and 'Banksters' by Nuno Côrte Real at the Lisbon Opera House.

She has worked with conductors such as Ton Koopman, Laurence Cummings, Lawrence Renes, Martin André, Antonio Pirolli, Stefan Asbury, Peter Rundell, Johannes Willig, Stefan Blunier, Rui Pinheiro, Marcos Magalhães, Pedro Neves, Cesário Costa, João Paulo Santos, Joana Carneiro, António Saiote, Marc Tardue, Brad Cohen, Ferreira Lobo, among others.

Throughout her acadmic years, she has worked with Manuela Bigail, Rui Taveira, Peter Harrison, Susan McCulloch and Elisabete Matos.