Cátia Moreso
Revered by critics as "priceless" and for her "refined and darker register, as well as for her ability to reach high and resonant notes” the Spanish mezzo-soprano CátiaMoreso has as her future plans for 2016/17 Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, Te Deum by Marcos Portugal with the Coro do TeatroNacional de São Carlos and Elijah by Mendelssohn in London.
Cátia Moreso studied at the ConservatórioNacional de Lisboa and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she obtained a degree in singing and the Master degree in Opera. Having been awarded a scholarship by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Lionel Anthony Charitable Trust, she studied at the National Opera Studio under Susan Waters. She won the 2nd Singing Contest of The Rotary Foundation of Portugal, the Bocage Prize in the Concurso Luísa Todi, as well as the 1st Prize in the Singing Contest José Augusto Alegria. In 2013 she won the Prix Aria friends bursary in the Wexford Opera Festival.
Her opera repertoire includes the following roles, among others: Suzuki in Madame Butterfly and La Baroness in Lidane and Dalmiro (TNSC) Ježibaba and 3rd Nymph in Rusalka, in Valladolid, Mother Goose in The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky, Tisbe in La Cenerentola by Rossini, Eva in Comedie on the Bridge, Clotilde in Norma, 2nd Witch and Spirit in Dido and Aeneas (TNSC), Maddalena and Giovanna in Rigoletto by Verdi, Mezzo in Lady Sarashina by Peter Eötvos, Eboli in Don Carlo by Verdi, La cieca in La Gioconda by Ponchielli (Madrid, Spain), Giano in Il Trionfod'Amore, Dianora and Elisa in La Spinalba by F. A. de Almeida, Hanna Wilson/Tracy, in the Losers by Richard Wargo, 3rd Lady in The Magic Flute (Wexford Festiva), Baronesslin Chérubin by Massenet, Elisa and Dianora in La Spinalba by F. A. de Almeida, Madame de Croissyand cover of the Mère Jeanne, in Dialogues des Astoria, Zanettoin the opera with the same name by Mascagni (Opera Holland Park), Carmella in La vidabreve by Falla (Tanglewood Festival), Marcellina in Le Nozzedi Figaro (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), Carmen, Santuzza in CavalleriaRusticana by Mascagni, Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff (Woodhouse, London).
In concert she was a soloist in Messiah and Te Deum by Handel, Te Deum by Zelenka (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), Beethoven’s 9th symphony, Ascension Oratorio: LobetGott in SeinenReichende Bach, Requiem by Verdi (Clonter Opera), Duruflé and Mozart, Nelson Mass by Haydn, Gloria and Magnificat by Vivaldi, Stabat Mater and Magnificat by Pergolesi, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio and Easter Oratory by Bach. Stabat Mater and Petite MesseSolennelle by Rossini, Mass No.3 (Gulbenkian and Philippe Herreweghe) and Te Deum by Bruckner, 2nd harlot Solomon by Handel (Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon), St. Paul by Mendelssohn, Requiem by Bomtempo.
In the field of contemporary music, CátiaMoreso sang the Folksongs by L. Berio, Aventures by G. Ligeti and was a soloist in the premiere of Cicero Dixit by C. Bochmann.
