Soprano

Ana Quintans studied at the Conservatory of Lisbon and the Flanders Opera Studio. Particularly devoted to baroque repertoire, she worked with conductors like Ivor Bolton, William Christie, Michel Corboz, Vincent Dumestre, Enrico Onofri, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón and Marc Minkowski.

Her recordings include Fauré’s Requiem with Sinfonia Varsovia and Michel Corboz, Charpentier’s Judicium Salomonis with Les Arts Florissants, Sementes do fado and La Spinalba by Almeida with Os Músicos do Tejo and a solo CD featuring arias by Albinoni. DVD-recordings include Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier´s David et Jonathas.

She worked with stage directors like Deborah Warner, Andreas Homoki, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Graham Vick and Jonathan Kent and at theatres and festivals like Opéra de Lyon, Wiener Festwochen, Centro Cultural de Belém, Flanders Opera, Dutch National Opera, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Salle Pleyel as well as at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh Glyndebourne and Salzburg.

Projects this season include concerts in France, Austria, Scotland, and Belgium, as well as her debut at the Theater an der Wien in the title role of Albinoni´s opera Zenobia and at the Grand Theatre Geneve in the role of Lully´s opera Atys, which will also be presented at the Opera Royal de Versailles. She can further be heard in concerts with Le Poème Harmonique, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as well as the Chorus and Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.