Fernando Guimarães

Fernando Guimarães

Tenor

Nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2015 for his portrayal of the title role in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria with Boston Baroque, Fernando Guimarães was also the winner of the “L’Orfeo” competition in Verona and received awards at the prestigious Cesti Competition in Innsbruck. He is a recipient of the RDP Young Musicians Prize and was awarded the Second Prize in the Luísa Todi National Singing Competition.
He has worked extensively with leading ensembles such as L’Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Concerto Köln, Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), Les Muffatti (Peter van Heyghen), Al Ayre Español (Eduardo López Banzo), Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla (Enrico Onofri), and Cappella Mediterranea (Leonardo García Alarcón). His discography comprises more than twenty recordings for a wide range of labels.

Among his notable achievements are the title role in Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with Les Arts Florissants at the Opéra de Versailles; his debut at the Philharmonie de Berlin with the Freiburger Barockorchester; and his debut at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has also sung Teseo in Cavalli’s Elena at the Aix-en-Provence Festival; Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff under Lawrence Foster with the Gulbenkian Foundation; and the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Opéra de Lausanne, directed by Robert Carsen and conducted by Ottavio Dantone.

His most recent projects include his debut with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging on a tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion; the role of Tamese in Vivaldi’s Arsilda with Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks; a new production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeoat the Teatro Regio in Turin; and his return to the title role of Monteverdi’s Ulisse in Sydney with Pinchgut Opera. In 2022 he became co-founder and artistic director of the ensemble Il Filo d’Oro, with which he is principally dedicated to historically informed performance of Italian seventeenth-century music.

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