Josy Santos
Mezzo-soprano
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This Brazilian mezzo-soprano is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Marzelline (role debut) in Le nozze di Figaro. This season she sang Dorabella (Così fan tutte) in Lucerne and Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri) with the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn. She made her debut at the Opéra national du Rhin in 2017, where she sang Bernardo Cenci in Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci in 2019, and where she can be heard in Janáček's Tagebuch eines Verschollenen / Diary of One who Disappeared in 2022. The corona situation means that her planned debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2022 has had to be postponed. She was a member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper in Hannover from 2017 – 2019, during which time roles included Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and La Marchesa Melibea (Viaggio a Reims). She covered Mozart's Cherubino and Dorabella at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in 2019/20. Her roles at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart in 2016/17 included Siebel (Faust), Oberto (Alcina) and Cherubino. She has worked with directors including Frank Castorf, Clarc-Deloeuil – Le Lab, Ingo Kerkhof, Peter Konwitschny, Mariano Pensotti and Jossi Wieler. Her concert repertoire includes Bach's Kantate BWV 76, Garcia's b-minor mass, Haydn's and Pergolesi's requiems and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël. Conductors with whom she has worked have included Howard Arman, Sylvain Cambreling, Christian Curnyn, Plácido Domingo, Ivan Repušić, Ulf Schirmer, Marc Soustrot and Lorenzo Viotti. She has also appeared at festivals including the Festival Música Trancoso and Rheingau Musik Festival.