Josy Santos instantly proved her value … Opera, March 2017
As a Rossini virtuosi, Josy Santos presented herself in the role of Angelina in La cenerentola at the Det Kongelige Teater København in the autumn of 2022, as La Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims at Staatsoper Hanover in 2019 and as Isabella in L ‘italiana in Algeri in Switzerland in 2020. She also moved the audience as Romeo in Bellini’s I capuleti e i montecchi at the Stadttheater Biel/Solothurn in 2021.
Baroque music is another important repertoire focus for Josy Santos: she performed Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at Staatsoper Hanover (2019) and Oberto in Handel’s Alcina at the Stuttgart State Opera (2016). Her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2021 as Teculihuatzin in Purcell’s The Indian Queen was canceled due to Covid-19. As a Mozart singer, she covered Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (2019/20) and delighted audiences as Cherubino at the Stuttgart State Opera (2017).
In May 2023, the Brazilian mezzo-soprano made her company debut in Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence at the Opernhaus Zürich. In 2021, she presented herself for the first time at Frankfurt Opera, in 2017, Josy Santos made her debut at the Opéra national du Rhin, where she returned as Bernardo Cenci in Ginastera’s Beatrix Cenci in 2019 and Zefka in Janáček’s Diary of One Who Disappeared in 2022. She created her role portraits with directors including Frank Castorf, Clarc-Deloeuil – Le Lab, Daniel Fish, Ingo Kerkhof, Peter Konwitschny, Mariano Pensotti, Evgeny Titov, and Jossi Wieler.
As a concert soloist, Josy Santos’ repertoire includes works such as Bach’s Cantata BWV 76, Garcia’s b-minor-Mass, Haydn’s, Mozart’s and Pergolesi’s Requiem, Saint-Saëns‘ Christmas Oratorio and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. She has performed under the baton of conductors such as Howard Arman, Stefan Blunier, Sylvain Cambreling, Christian Curnyn, Enrico Delamboye, Plácido Domingo, Ben Gernon, Marko Letonja, Ulf Schirmer, Marc Soustrot, Lorenzo Viotti, and Ilan Volkov. She has appeared as a guest at several festivals, including Festival Música Trancoso and Rheingau Musik Festival.
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