Carla Caramujo
Soprano
Portuguese soprano Carla Caramujo is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a winner of the Luísa Todi National Singing Competition (Portugal), the Musikförderpreis der Hans-Sachs-Loge (Germany), Chevron Excellence, Ye Cronies and Dewar Awards (United Kingdom).
She made her debut in the role of Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos (Lisbon) where she subsequently performed as Contessa Folleville in Il Viaggio a Reims, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, D. Anna in Don Giovanni, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Lisette in La Rondine and Princesse in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. Other roles and concert repertoire include Violetta in La Traviata, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Armida in Rinaldo, Königin in Die Zauberflöte and Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Valetto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea; Nena in Pergolesi’s Lo frate ‘nnamorato, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s C minor Mass, Carmina Burana, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s Passion According to St. John/St. Matthew, the Brahms Requiem, and Strauss’ Lieder der Ophelie, in the United Kingdom (Barbican, New Sage Gateshead Music Centre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Uruguay (SODRE), Colombia (Teatro Mayor), Mexico, Argentina (Usina del Arte), Portugal (Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural de Belém – CCB Lisbon) and Spain (Are-more Festival).
Her interest in contemporary repertoire led her to debut the role of Salomé in the première of O Sonho by Pedro Amaral with London Sinfonietta in London (The Place) and Lisbon (Gulbenkian). She was La Princesse at the Latin American premiere of Philip Glass’s Orphée at the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater, Flight Controller in Jonathon Dove’s Flight in Glasgow, Angel in the Joly Braga Santos Trilogia das Barcas (Trilogy of the Ships) for the S. Carlos Theatre (Lisbon) and the role of Soprano in Lady Sarashina by Peter Eötvös with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra (S. Luiz Theatre). She premiered Vida e Obra de Dona Isabel by Alexandre Delgado with the Orquestra Clássica do Centro at the São Francisco Convent in Coimbra. In works by Brazilian composer João Guilherme Ripper, she played Iara in Onheama at the Terras sem Sombra Festival in Portugal, Five Poems of Vinicius de Moraes, the world premiere of the cantata Icamiabas and Domitila at the Belém do Pará International Music Festival.
She recorded Pedro Camacho’s Requiem for Inês de Castro, a finalist in the 2019 Grammy nominations, António Fragoso’s Complete Songs with pianist João Paulo Santos (Framart 2018), Il Mondo della Luna by Avondano with Os Músicos do Tejo (Naxos 2020) and Domitila by João Guilherme Ripper with Toy Ensemble (MPMP 2020).