Rita Filipe
Portuguese mezzo-soprano Rita Filipe studies lyrical singing with Élène Golgevit, following two years of training with Chantal Mathias at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, France.
Since 2019, Rita has collaborated as a soloist with Os Músicos do Tejo (conductor Marcos Magalhães), the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble MPMP (conductor Jan Wierzba), the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra (conductor Pedro Carneiro), the Lisbon Academic Orchestra (conductor Tiago Oliveira), Divino Sospiro (conductor Massimo Mazzeo), the Orquestra das Beiras, and Il Gardellino (conductor Peter van Heyghen).
She made her operatic debut at OperaFest Lisboa, participating in Marathon I, a competition of contemporary operas by Portuguese composers. In recent years, she has performed the role of Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Olga Cadaval Auditorium; in Pergolesi’s Lo frate ’nnamorato at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki (Finland); the Second Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Maddalena in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at the Centro Cultural de Belém; and the Nurse (Suor Infermieira) in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.
In concert, Rita has performed Bach’s St John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the role of Žofka in Janáček’s song cycle The Diary of One Who Disappeared.
As a chorister, she has participated in Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly at OperaFest Lisboa. In France, she collaborated with Ensemble Pygmalion in productions of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Les Chemins de Bach in Versailles, Vienna, Toulouse and Paris, under the direction of Raphaël Pichon. Rita has been a member of the Gulbenkian Choir, the Nova Era Vocal Ensemble and the Ensemble Vocal Aura. With Nova Era Vocal Ensemble, she had the opportunity to work with Daniel Reuss, Joseph Vila and Bernie Sherlock.