biography
Beatriz Miranda, Mezzo Soprano, joined the ensemble of the staatsoper hannover in the 2023/24 season.
Portuguese Mezzo-Soprano Beatriz Miranda joined the Ensemble of the Staatsoper Hannover in the 2023/24 season after completing one year at the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Hannover. This season, Beatriz debuted Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and will make her debut in the roles of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Dorabella in Così fan tutte as well as the Priestess in Aïda.
As a Young Artist at the Staatsoper Hannover, last season Beatriz performed as Tkatschicha in The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Nancy T’ang in Nixon in China, as well as Wood Sprite in Rusalka, Soeur Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmelites and Sandmännchen in Hänsel und Gretel. Other roles include Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in her home country of Portugal, as well as Lucilla in La scala di seta and Ljubica in Ana Sokolovič’s Svadba.
A passionate art song recitalist, Beatriz was invited to perform a program at the Schubert Week in January 2023 at the Pierre Boulez Saal, with collaborative pianist Graham Johnson, and has performed in several other song recitals at the Neuland Lied festival in Heidelberg, at the historical Reitstadel in Neumarkt and at the Bennett Gordon Hall at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. In concert, Beatriz has sung excerpts of Idomeneo as Idamante at the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Beatriz is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin where she received her Masters of Music with Distinction. She is an alumna of the Ravinia Steans’ Music Institute, of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie and of the Lied Akademie of the Internationale Liedzentrum Heidelberg.