Manuel Soares

Portuguese singer Manuel Soares took part in the concert and masterclass project mounted at the Igreja da Trindade in Porto on 11 September 2003, an evening built largely around Mozart — music from Die Zauberflöte alongside the Symphony No. 29 — with the orchestra of the Gaia Conservatory Foundation. Soares is a tenor who completed the Canto Teatral course at the Fundação Conservatório Regional de Gaia and has worked in Portugal in both oratorio and opera. His stage roles include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Gaston in La traviata, Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, Bastien in Bastien und Bastienne, and Britaldo in Alfredo Keil's Irene; for the Real Teatro de Ópera de Câmara de Queluz he sang Camille de Roussillon in Die lustige Witwe. He has studied with Ileana Cotrubaș, Gundula Janowitz, Rudolf Knoll and Hilde Zadek. He sang Fernando Magno in Manuel de Faria’s Auto de Coimbra when it was presented at the Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente in July 2004.