Beatriz Maia
Interview
Where do I come from?
From a small village called Vale do Açôr, located in Miranda do Corvo - Coimbra, Portugal.
Why do I sing?
Through singing, I can immerse myself in other worlds and emotions and create different experiences for those who listen to me.
And what do I like apart from singing?
Reading, writing, eating, cooking, spending time with my family, developing new projects, spending time in nature.
My own personal musical highlight?
Marie, from the opera “La fille du régiment” at the Festival de Ópera de Óbidos 2024 (Portugal).
My motto?
„To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake the moon shines with splendor, because it blooms up above.“ – Fernando Pessoa
Biography
Beatriz Maia is a Portuguese soprano from Miranda do Corvo (Coimbra). She received her training from Isabel Melo e Silva, Isabel Alcobia, and tenor Paulo Ferreira. Her academic career took her to the Conservatory of Music in Coimbra and the University of Aveiro, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in music and her master’s degree in music education. She was then accepted into the master’s program in musical theater/opera singing at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding, where she studies in the singing class of KS Prof. Christiane Iven.
She made her opera debut in 2024 as Marie in La fille du régiment (G. Donizetti) at the Festival de Ópera de Óbidos. In the course of her artistic career, she has sung Flora (The Turn of the Screw, B. Britten), Cábula (O Cábula, Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira), Rouxinol (world premiere of O Rouxinol, Sérgio Azevedo), Despina (Così fan tutte, W. A. Mozart), Claudine (La fille du Tambour-Major, J. Offenbach), Pamina and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte, W. A. Mozart) and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel, E. Humperdinck – Portuguese version). She has worked with numerous conductors, including Jean Paul Bucchieri, Martim Sousa Tavares, Rita Castro Blanco, Cameron Burns, Rui Pinheiro, Jan Wierzba, Toby Purser, Cesário Costa, and António Vassalo Lourenço.
Since 2015, Beatriz Maia has been performing as part of a song duo with pianist Gustavo Afonso. Particularly noteworthy are her performances at the Festivais de Outono 2019, the Ciclos de Lua Nova in Águeda, the Festival de Canto in Castelo Branco 2021, as well as the Ciclo Cultural e Musical da Bairrada, Projecto:canção, and Ciclo Romântico in Porto in 2023.
She is a prize winner of the Graduate’s Competition – Music Theater in Vienna 2026 (1st prize and audience prize) and the XXI Operafest Marathon 2023: Great Singers for Today’s Opera (1st prize and audience prize).
Starting in the 26/27 and 27/28 seasons, she will be a member of the Vienna State Opera’s opera studio.
Media
“Gualtier Maldè!… Caro nome” from “Rigoletto” by G. Verdi
Beatriz Maia (soprano) Csinszka Rédai (piano)
May 2025
„Chacun le sait“ – „La fille du régiment“ by G. Donizetti
Beatriz Maia (soprano) & Nathan Harris (piano)
December 2025