NEVES, ANA ESTER Ana Ester Neves, soprano
The
Portuguese soprano Ana Ester Neves studied at the National Conservatory of
Lisbon and, with a Calouste Gulbenkian scholarship, at the London Royal Academy
of Music, winning important prizes in 1990, the year of her debut with the
Vienna Chamber Opera as Micaela in Bizets Carmen and a further series
of leading rôles in a varied operatic repertoire. In the 1996 season at the
Lisbon Teatro Nacionalde São Carlos she sang the role of Musetta in Puccinis La
Bohème and continues her diversified activity as a recitalist, being a
member of the Trio Vissi dArte and of the Contemporary Music Group of Lisbon.
She won first prizes in the Luisa Todi National Singing Competition and in the
Mary Garden International Competition in Scotland and took a master's degree in
singing at Boston University. Her present career has allowed her to do much to
encourage the promotion of Portuguese music, with recitals in Paris and London,
in addition to her regular international and national appearances in the
opera-house and the concert-hall.
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