Ana Vieira Leite
Soprano
Portuguese soprano Ana Vieira Leite is a laureate of Les Arts Florissants’ Jardin des Voix academy. She opened the 2021/22 season singing the title role in Handel’s Partenope during the ensemble’s European tour under the baton of William Christie. The tour included performances at the Lucerne Festival, Müpa Budapest, Philharmonie de Paris, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Highlights of that season also included concerts with Holland Baroque in Utrecht and The Hague, and with Divino Sospiro in Milan, Lisbon, Paris and Metz, as well as the role of Angelo in Luigi Mancia’s Il paradiso perduto with Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu at the Auditorium of the Orchestre National de Lyon. A new collaboration with Les Arts Florissants brought her to the Opéra Royal de Versailles, where she sang the role of L’Amour in Mondonville’s Titon et l’Aurore.
Ana Vieira Leite is particularly active in the field of early music and has sung roles such as Spes in Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, Une Bohémienne in André Campra’s Les fêtes vénitiennes, La Musica in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, and Lidie in Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire. She is a founding member of the ensemble O Bando de Surunyo, specialising in the performance of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music.
In September 2019 she made her debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, singing the soprano solo in Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach and Clorinda in a children’s adaptation of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. In concert, she performed Mahler’s Fourth Symphony under the direction of Joana Carneiro and Gábor Takács-Nagy, as well as Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with Thomas Hueschild.
Ana Vieira Leite graduated from the Haute École de Musique de Genève (Switzerland) in 2020 with a Master’s degree in Performance, receiving the “Ville de Genève” prize for her outstanding work. Prior to joining the Haute École de Musique de Genève, she began her musical studies at the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga, Portugal, at the age of six. She holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Artistic Performance from ESMAE (Porto).
In 2018 she won the First Prize at the “Concurso Internacional Cidade de Almada” and, in 2017, the First Prize of the “Prémio Helena Sá e Costa”. In 2020 she won the First Prize at the “Concours de Chant Baroque de Froville” (France), and in 2021 she was awarded the Second Prize at the “Prémio Jovens Músicos” and the First Prize at the “Concurso da Fundação Rotária Portuguesa” (Portugal).
Ana Vieira Leite is pleased to receive the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), the Fondation Mosetti (Switzerland) and the GDA Foundation (Portugal).