Joana Seara Soprano
Joana Seara was born in Lisbon and after finishing her degree in Media Studies, came to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she took her BMus and MMus degrees and completed the Opera Course. Her studies at the Guildhall were supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Wingate Foundation, E M Behrens Charitable Trust and the Worshipful Company of Barbers.
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Joana Seara was born in Lisbon. Whilst studying singing with the Portuguese opera singer Elsa Saque, Joana took a degree in Journalism and worked in an arts newspaper before coming to London to study with Laura Sarti at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She now enjoys a successful career as an opera and concert singer and has already sung for companies such as Opera Holland Park (Gretel), Glyndebourne Festival Opera (cover Gretel) English National Opera (Damigella), Castleward (Despina) and Independent Opera at Sadlers Wells (Dorinda).
Joana is making her debut this spring as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the São Carlos Opera House, Lisbon. Other engagements include the revival and recording of L’Angelica by Souza Carvalho and Cherubino in Marcos Portugal’s The Marriage of Figaro for Bampton Classical Opera.
Joana has sung in Germany at the Potsdam Festival with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Margery The Dragon of Wantley by Lampe), in Portugal (Vannella Lo Frate ‘Nnammurato by Pergolesi, Vespina La Spinalba by Almeyda), in the Netherlands at the Zeist Festival (Zerlina) and in France (Galatea).
Other roles include Juliet in Benda’s Romeo and Juliet (Bampton Classical Opera and the Buxton Festival), Angelica L’Angelica by Souza Carvalho, Nannetta Falstaff (GSMD), the title role in Violet by Roger Scruton (GSMD), and Ninetta Finta semplice (GSMD).
Concert appearances include St John Passion with The King’s Consort, conducted by Matthew Halls and the St Matthew Passion with the Divino Sospiro Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Enrico Onofri, both at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. She recently sang Mendelssohn’s “Infelice! Giá del mio sguardo” with Augustin Dumay and the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, and Soprano II in Mozart’s C minor Mass at St John’s, Smith Square.
She has performed at the London Handel Festival 2008, at the Oxford Lieder Festival with pianist Sholto Kynoch and makes regular appearances with the Lisbon-based Baroque Ensemble of Chiado and the Divino Sospiro Baroque Orchestra, having sung at the Ile de France, Ambronay and Mafra baroque festivals.
Other concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony no 2, Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony and Handel’s Messiah.
She was awarded the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Music Prize 2005 at the GSMD Gold Medal and was a finalist at the Handel Singing Competition 2007. Her studies at the Guildhall were supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Wingate Foundation, the E M Behrens Charitable Trust and the Worshipful Company of Barbers. She was also the receiver of a Sybil Tutton Award.
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Website - www.joanaseara.com
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