Carla Caramujo
Carla Caramujo studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music Performance with Distinction. Her teachers included Laura Sarti and Patricia MacMahon and she was also a scholar of the Samling Foundation in the UK. She won first prizes in a number of competitions including the Luisa Todi National Singing Competition (Lisbon) and at the Musikförderpreis der Hans-Sachs-Loge (Nürnberg,).
Carla Caramujo made her début at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon as Gilda Rigoletto and was invited back to sing Donna Anna Don Giovanni. She also sang in a Concert Gala at TNSC with Vesselina Kasarova. Her other opera engagements in Portugal include Adina L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon, and Nena Lo frate 'nnamorato and Vespina La Spinalba with Os Musicos do Tejo at CCB in Lisbon and in Vigo.
Carla Caramujo’s operatic repertoire also includes Violetta La traviata, Madame Herz Die Schauspieldirektor, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Valetto L’incoronazione di Poppea, Armida Rinaldo, Flight Controller Flight (Jonathan Dove), She in Douglas Templeton’s Night Square, Usignuolo and Fata Azzurra in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco.
Carla Caramujo has sung concerts at the Centro Cultural de Belem and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, as well as at many major Portuguese music festivals. She has also performed in the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Mexico. Her concert repertoire includes Brahms Requiem, Bach Magnificat, Handel Messiah, Mozart C minor Mass, Beethoven Mass in C, Mendelssohn Elijah, Carl Orff Carmina Burana, and Mozart Concert Arias.
Carla Caramujo’s recent engagements include Donna Anna Don Giovanni for Opera Norte in Portugal, Adele Die Fledermaus and Sandman and Dew Fairy Hänsel und Gretel for Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, and roles in Le Carnaval et la Folie by Destouches with Os Musicos do Tejo, Lisbon. She created the role of Salome in the world premiere of O Sonho by Pedro Amaral with the London Sinfonietta in London and at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
Carla Caramujo’s future engagements included Norina Don Pasquale for the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in 2012m but this production has now been cancelled due to the recent economic cuts in Portugal.
November 2011
