Ana Quintans

Ana Quintans

Soprano
Ana Quintans holds a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. She studied singing at the National Conservatory in Lisbon and at the Flanders Operastudio in Ghent, where she was a scholarship recipient of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

She began her international career in 2005 with Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie, and continues to devote the majority of her work to music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this repertoire she has sung Poppea, Drusilla and Amore in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Argie in Rameau’s Les Paladins, Belinda and the Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and the title role in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen; Musique in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles; Spinalba in Francisco António de Almeida’s La Spinalba; Lisetta in Pedro António Avondano’s Il Mondo della Luna; and Atalanta in Handel’s Serse.

Her discography includes Fauré’s Requiem with the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michel Corboz; Charpentier’s Judicium Salomonis with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie; As Sementes do Fado and La Spinalbawith Os Músicos do Tejo; and Kleine Musik, featuring works by Schütz and Ivan Moody, with the ensemble Sete Lágrimas.
She has performed the role of Ismene in Mazzoni’s Antigono at the Centro Cultural de Belém; Clizia in Handel’s Teseo at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; and Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine in Lyon, Lausanne and Geneva.

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