Catarina Molder was born in Lisbon and has a degree in vocal performance from the Lisbon Music School (Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa). She then obtained a post-graduate degree in vocal performance at Hamburg University’s Music and Theatre School (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) with a scholarship from the German government and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

She has performed in major theatres and music festivals in Portugal and has collaborated with various Portuguese orchestras. She has created and performed in several cross-disciplinary projects with a repertoire ranging from Verdi to Puccini as well as cabaret and contemporary music.

She founded the opera production company Ópera do Castelo, which conceives, produces and stages innovative opera projects in various interdisciplinary explorations and formats, including the audiovisual. One of these projects is the television series Super Diva, ópera para todos (Super Diva, Opera for Everyone) broadcast by the Portuguese TV channel RTP2. Its first season won the SPA (Portuguese Authors Society) prize in 2013 for best TV show.

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, she founded Operafest Lisboa, an opera festival that merges tradition and avant-garde. Its second edition, in summer 2021, confirmed its initial success.

Catarina Molder is currently working on a television series about opera fiction, Cortina Vermelha (Red Curtain), for the Portuguese TV channel RTP2. She is also creating and directing an opera about António Chagas Rosa entitled O Homem dos Sonhos (The Man of Dreams), in which she also plays the lead.

He was born in 1988 in Lisbon, where he still lives and works.

He studied piano at the National Conservatoire in Lisbon and later completed his degree in Musical Composition at the Lisbon Music School. He has performed and recorded with several musical improvisation groups and regularly works with Ernesto Rodrigues. He was assistant to composer and performer Miguel Azguime in O’Culto da Ajuda.

Together with Pedro Coragem, he performed “Candura”(Candour) a musical project devised for the closing concert of the exhibition Desenho Sem Fim, by Rui Chafes.

More recently, he was a solo performer in Nuno da Rocha’s Inferno with the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Tânia Carvalho studied plastic arts at the Higher School of Arts and Design in Caldas da Rainha, in 1994, and at the Higher School of Dance in Lisbon from 1995 to 1997. She completed the Course in Contemporary Dance Performance offered by Fórum Dança in 1999 and the Choreography Course offered by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2005 in Lisbon. She studied piano and music with João Aleixo, Diogo Alvim and Yuri Popov (2007-2013). Since 2018, she has been learning how to play erhu with Inês and Cheong Li.

She has worked as a choreographer in theatres, festivals and art residencies both in Portugal and abroad. She has collaborated with several ballet and dance companies, such as Ballet de l’Opera de Lyon (Xylographie), London’s Company of Elders (I Walk, You Sing), and the following Portuguese companies: Companhia Nacional de Bailado (Portugal’s National Ballet Company) (S), Companhia Paulo Ribeiro (Como é que eu vou fazer isto?), Companhia de Ballet do Norte (3), and Dançando com a Diferença (Doesdicon).

In 2018, she celebrated twenty years of artistic creation with her Ciclo Tânia Carvalho at Teatro Maria Matos, Teatro São Luiz and Companhia Nacional de Bailado.

Besides her musical projects Madmud, Trash Nymph, and Moliquentos, she co-founded the artist collective Bomba Suicida (Suicide Bomb), to which she belonged until it closed in 2014. She set up her own production company in 2015.

She sometimes composes music scores for her own creations as well as for other choreographers, such as Luís Guerra and Simon Vincenzi. She composed a a piece for Manuel Guerra’s film ALinha. In 2018 she directed her first film, Um Saco e uma Pedra (A bag and a stone), a dance show.

She participated in the international network of art programmers and choreographers Modul Dance (2011-2014) and was responsible for the national programme of Cumplicidades Festival Pe(Portugal, 2018). In 2018, she participated in the Festival Best Of (Les Subsistances) in Lyon, with the piece Reverso das Palavra (The Flip Side of Words).