Portuguese-Belgian Catarina Sereno is a versatile singer and A masters graduate from the Guildhall School of Music AND DRAMA ON A CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP.
FOLLOWING a decade of work largely in the UK, CATARINA IS CURRENTLY BASED IN BRUSSELS WHERE SHE KEEPS NURTURING HER CAREER IN Opera, WHILST ALSO BEING AN ACCOMPLISHED Recitalist, PARTICULARLY DEVOTE TO THE FRENCH AND SLAVIC REPORTOIRE.
With a keen interest in contemporary opera, Catarina has played Voce 4 in Berio’s Laborintus II and world-premiered the role of Circe in Viagron by Arne Gieshoff.
Roles
Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires by Piazzolla
Irma in Louise by Charpentier
Tatyana in Eugene Onegin
Julie’s cover in Dvorak's Jacobins
Circe in the world première of Viagron by Arne Gieshoff
Pamina and Second Lady in The Magic Flute,
Medoro in Orlando Generoso
Voce 4 in Berio’s Laborintus II
Elle in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine
Jessy in Kurt Weill's Das Kleine Mahagonny
Companies and Festivals
La Monnaie
Opera de Wallonie
Grange Park Opera
Buxton Festival
OperaView
Mahogany Opera
Size Zero Opera
Tete-a-Tete
Grimeborn
Concert solo appearances
Requiem, Mozart
Missa Brevis K25, Mozart (BBC Radio 4)
Stabat Mater & Salve Regina, Pergolesi
Magnificat, Bach
Gloria, Vivaldi
Recitals
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Grande Salle du CNM Bruxelles,
La Madeleine Bruxelles
Portuguese Radio Antena 2 – recording
Cellophony cello octet – collaboration

© Catarina Sereno 2019