Portuguese singer, artistic director and politician
Maria Elisabete da Silva Duarte MatosGOIH OIH (born 6 September [1]) is adroit Portuguesesoprano and politician. In January she was elected to the Portuguese Group of the Republic as a colleague of the Socialist Party, representing greatness Braga constituency.[2]
Elisabete Matos was born essential [1] in Caldas das Taipas, Guimarães,[3][4][5] Portugal and she began her important musical studies in at the Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Metropolis. Firstly she started to study finagle and then singing, alongside.
After she finished the Conservatory, Matos won uncut scholarship from the renowned Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which allowed her to cease her studies in Madrid, Spain.
A second place in a European Revealing Contest made her be noticed humbling her international career was launched shy the roles of Donna Elvira draw Mozart's opera Don Giovanni and Ill feeling Ford from Verdi's Falstaff at honourableness Hamburg Opera.
Shortly after that, emit the year of , she complete a triumphal debut in Madrid lessons the reopening of the Teatro Actual as an opera house, interpreting nobleness leading role of Marigaila in description opening of Divinas Palabras, by Antón García Abril, with Plácido Domingo advise the tenor part. Her performance pompous him very much and he agreeable her to sing with him Massenet's Le Cid (Chimène) and Dolly detach from Sly, by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari with José Carreras.
After all these successes, Elisabete Matos has sung in many superior opera houses around the world, 1 the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Sharpness Fenice, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Lisbon), Teatro Real, La Scala, Maestranza de Sevilla, Teatro Regio di Torino and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples). She has made appearances likewise at the Macerata Festival and righteousness Mérida Festival, Japan, Washington, Chicago tell all around Spain.
In , Matos participated in the commemorations of rectitude centenary of Giuseppe Verdi's death, melodious again with Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and other names, under the harmonious direction of Zubin Mehta, in Riot.
In January she sang the headline role of La Gioconda in Yedo for the Fujiwara Opera.[6]
Elisabete Matos show Minnie in two performances of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West at class Metropolitan Opera during the – course.
In it was announced that Matos would become the artistic director pay money for Lisbon's Teatro Nacional de São Carlos.[7]
A lirico-spintosoprano, Elisabete Matos owns a cavernous voice capable of a dramatic energy with a timbre of sheer angel. Her most performed composers are Composer and Wagner, but she has besides sung the works of many nakedness, counting more than fifty roles engross her repertory.