Ana Quintans studied at the Conservatory of Lisbon and the Flanders Opera Studio. She worked with conductors like Ivor Bolton, William Christie, Michel Corboz, Vincent Dumestre, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón and Marc Minkowski.

Recordings include Fauré’s Requiem, and La Spinalba by Almeida, Monteverdi´s L´Orfeo with Cappella Mediterranea and Les Indes Galantes with La Chapelle Harmonique. She also recorded a solo CD, featuring arias by Albinoni as well as the title role in Sebastian Duron´s Coronis. DVD-recordings include Charpentier´s David et Jonathas and Monteverdi´s L´Incoronazione di Poppea, both with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie9

She worked with stage directors like Deborah Warner, Andreas Homoki, Barry Kosky, Pier Luigi Pizzi and Graham Vick and at theatres like Opéra de Lyon, Bavarian State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid Dutch National Opera and concert halls like Gulbenkian, Salle Pleyel as well as at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne and Salzburg.

Recent highlights include Salieri´s opera Cublai gran Kan di Tartari at Theater an der Wien with Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset (also recorded for CD) and the title role of Joao Guilherme Ripper´s chamber opera Domitila at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, which she repeated at the Teatro Mayor in Bogota. Other projects this and coming season include concerts with the ensembles of Cappella Mediterranea (a tour of choreographed concerts of Rameau´s Les Indes Galantes) and Le Poème Harmonique.(Dido and Aeneas by Purcell), Purcell´s The Fairy Queen at the Savonlinna Festival as well as the role of Sangaride in Lully´s Atys at the Royal Opera of Versailles.