SOPHIA DE OTERO
MEZZO-SOPRANO

The young brazilian Mezzo-soprano started her studies at the age of 17 in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she also participated in Lied, Opera, and Baroque Music Masterclasses, with artists such as Mitsuko Shirai, Maria Venutti, Fabio Centanni and Karine Serafin, amongst many others. Already at a young age, she set foot on stage to sing roles such as Siebel(Faust), Dorabella(Così fan Tutte), Sorceress(Dido and Aeneas)

having made her debut as Kate, in Madama Butterfly.

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Along with her studies, she was also a Soloist with UniRio Baroque Orchestra,

singing repertoire from Monteverdi to Bach.

At age 22 she was selected to the Bachelors Program in the Superior School for Musik in Stuttgart, where she studied with Francisco Araiza, and after his retirement, with Prof. Turid Karlsen. Sophia is currently in the class of Prof. Gundula Schneider, since the beginning of her Masters Studies in Opera, which are scheduled to end in July this year. In these few years of study in Germany she has already sung roles on stage such as Stella (Elliot Carter’s “What Next?”), Maddalena and Giovanna in Verdi’s Rigoletto, 3. Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, as well as excerpts from I Capuletti ed i Montechi (as Romeo), Carmen(as Carmen), and Hänsel und Gretel(as Hänsel), and several Chamber Music Performances. Also in Germany she participated in Masterclasses with Margreet Honig, Ingeborg Danz and Malcom Walker, and won first prize in the International Karl-Adler-Jugend-Musikwettbewerb in 2015.