Rita Moldao

Portuguese by birth and by first training, Rita Moldão graduated in theatre singing from the Conservatório Superior de Música de Gaia in the class of Fernanda Correia, then studied in Spain and Italy with Elisabete Matos, Francesco Pio Galasso, Francesca Roig, Alfio Grasso and Enza Ferrari, and in master classes with Raina Kabaivanska and Hilde Zadek. Her debut came in 2003 as Susanna, at the Festival de Música de Gaia with the Orquestra das Beiras; the Queen of the Night, Bastienne, Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone and the Princess, the Fire and the Nightingale in L'Enfant et les sortilèges followed. Exsultate, jubilate, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria and Carmina Burana carry her concert work, which has taken her to Cape Verde and to São Tomé and Príncipe as well as across western Europe and to the United States. She founded and directs the Centro de Perfeccionamiento Vocal Rita Moldão in Madrid.