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The soprano Ana Caseiro focuses her career on contemporary repertoire. In the 2022 season she debuted in Vienna and in Budapest in the Austrian and Hungarian premieres of the J. Widmann’s opera “Das Gesicht im Spiegel” singing the role of Justine, as well as in the Opera of Graz with the world premiere of two operas - Alemany’s “Glucklich, die wissen…” and Samanli’s “The Patron Saint of Liars”. She performed in the New Opera Days Ostrava Festival in Luigi Nono's "Prometeo. Tragedia dell'ascolto" and in Petr Kotik’s 6-hour music-theater piece “Many Many Women”. This piece was also recorded for the Czech Radio and performed again in New York. In 2023 she performed the role of 5. Magd in "Elektra" by R. Strauss in Casa da Música and the role of Mutter in „Geschichte“ by Oscar Strasnoy in the Opera of Graz.
Parallel to her contemporary music path Ana Caseiro performs roles such as Mimi from G. Puccini’s “La Bohème” (Savaria Symphony Orchestra in Szombathely, Hungary 2022), or the role of Branghien in “Le vin herbé” by Frank Martin (Casa da Música, Portugal 2021). Other roles she has in her repertoire are Adina (“L’elisir d’amore”, G. Donizetti), Venus (“Orphée dans l’enfer”, J. Offenbach), Contessa (“Le Nozze di Figaro”, W. A. Mozart), Lisette (“La Rondine”, G. Puccini) among others.
She performs in stagings by directors like Olivier Tambosi, Ingo Kerkhof, Christoph Zauner and Carlos Wagner and works together with conductors like Marc Piollet, Walter Kobera, Léo Warynski and Leonhard Garms.
She studied singing in Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel with Dina Grossberger and Dinah Bryant and at the Kunstuniversität Graz with Ulf Bästlein. There she is currently specializing in Performance Practice in Contemporary Music with Holger Falk and Klangforum Wien.
She participated in Lied masterclasses like the Udo Reinemann International Masterclasses (2015) and Liedkunst im Schloss vor Husum (2016) with the pianist Pedro Costa, as well as the Leeds Lieder Young Artists (2020) with the pianist Sabina Švigelj. She worked with artists like Sarah Wegener, Sarah Maria Sun, Angelika Luz, Holger Falk, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Julius Drake, Roderick Williams, Marianne Pousseur, Christianne Stotijn, Eildert Beeftink, Valerie Guillorit, Joseph Breinl, Charles Spencer, Marie Claude Solanet, Dorian Astor, Markus Hadulla, Carmelo Corrado Caruso, Fernando Guimarães and António Salgado.
Ana Caseiro is a founding member of the vocal ensemble "Capítulo" (2019) and the contemporary music ensemble "Coincidence" (2021). She has been awarded scholarships by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2021-2023) and Fundação GDA (2018).
She has extensive professional experience in chamber choir since 2015, in several european choirs such as Coro Casa da Música, Choeur de la Radio France, Collegium Vocale Gent and Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor.
Besides her musical career she holds a bachelors degree in Biology by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (2013) and works as a cultural producer.