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Ana Quintans
After completing fine arts studies (sculpture), Ana
Quintans began to study voice at the conservatory in
Lisbon with José Manuel Araujo. She has taken part
in the La Musique des Mémoires workshops run by
composer and multimedia artist Claire Renard, in
many courses, and also in the Operaplus Summer
School for Young Singers in Belgium, where she
won the Vera Rozsa Scholarship Award (2003)
and the Temple Square Concert Award (2004). In
2006, she completed her education at the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation and began training at the
Flanders Opera Studio in Ghent. She often performs
on stage, engaged mainly for productions of
Baroque operas prepared by such stage directors as
Jorge Listopad, Paula Ribeiro, Bernard Sobel, Carlos
Wagner, Frederique Dussene and Deborah Warner.
She has sung at opera theaters all over Europe, Japan
and the United States (Carnegie Hall in New York),
and has appeared as a guest artist at such festivals
as Wiener Festwochen, Festival Musicatlantico,
Festival Culturel Européen de Rouen, Festival
Ambronay and Festival de Musique Ancienne de
Lyon. She also performs solo parts in oratorio and
cantata works, as well as art song repertoire in duets
with José Brandão or Hein Boterberg. Under the
direction of William Christie, accompanied by Les
Arts Florissants, she has made recordings of works
by M.-A. Charpentier: Judicium Salomonis (Vera
Mater) as well as Motet pour une longue offrande
(EMI/Virgin Classics). She has also collaborated
with Sinfonia Varsovia and Michel Corboz in a
recording of G. Fauré’s Requiem (Mirare).
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Photo: Mario Melo Costa