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Catarina Molder was born in Lisbon. She holds a Masters Degree in Singing from Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, and continued her training in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, with a scholarship from Gulbenkian Foundation and from German Government.
Catarina Molder has an extensive performance experience and a repertoire that ranges from Verdi and Puccini to Schostakovith. Despite her dramatic voice she is moving with great ease to a more lyrical one, as well to musiktheater repertoire, contemporary opera and art song.
She presented and performed in the Main Portuguese Halls and Festivals with the main Portuguese Orchestras and created solo show s exploring opera and art song such as “Five ways to die of love” or “Mortal heroins”.
This visionary multifaceted soprano allies vocal and performing talent charisma with management and strategic view skills. She is opera singer, artistic director, TV presenter, TV director, producer, manager, instigator, provoker, not only interested in incarnating the big repertoire as a singer and performer, but also doing new opera commissions, moving opera into other formats, being an active player in paving new paths for this artform future.
She formed her own production company - Ópera do Castelo, one of the most significant independent Portuguese opera companies, known for its flexibility and dynamism, bringing an unprecedent vitality to the Portuguese operatic sector. With a pioneer work, widely recognized, she conceives , produces and performes in innovative opera projects, working with stage director and choreographers such as Tânia Carvalho, Miguel Loureiro, Olga Roriz, Aldara Bizarro, Michael Dieuaide, José Caldas among others.
Aiming at finding new eclectic ways of communicating and presenting opera to the audiences of today she created, sang and presented a TV Series, for the national TV channel RTP2 – Super Diva- Ópera para todos (opera for everyone), winning the Author Society 2013 Award for the best Cultural TV show 2013. Produced Super Diva’s 2nd Season (2015) and directed the (2018) 3rd (2018) season, co-produced by Unitel, worldwide distributed where participated many world opera stars such as Antonio Pappano, Renné Pape, Sonya Yoncheva, Magdalena Kozena or Rolando Villanzon and created the inedited Twitter Opera, short contemporary opera in short cut format.
She also has been greatly committed with communicating opera, art song and contemporary opera to younger generations, touring all over Portugal staged recitals for children (Chidren’s Universe, Lyrical fun and Cati, the witch, with electronic music) and created and recorded the cd/book Let’s sing the classics and the opera tale “The little Tomb and Babar the Elephant. For the Gulbenkian Foundation she conceived and directed during five seasons, the Educational Project “Discovering Music”: designing workshops to explore all kinds of musical languages, staged concerts, narrated concerts, mingling contemporary music, contemporary visual arts and opera, to reach out audiences of all ages.
She presented opera in many unconventional places and in varied transdisciplinary projects she designed to be presented in discos, in the public space, in public gardens, public transportations, schools and in the neighborhood.
She made several recordings for the National radio and performed with the main Portuguese Orchestras.
In 2020, during pandemic, she launched with great public impact the festival Operafest Lisboa, finally placing Portugal within the International Opera Festival circuit. Combining tradition and vanguardism, Operafest has commissioned multiple new works and premiered numerous pieces attracting a significant number of new opera enthusiasts and has established itself one of the most “outside the box” european opera festival. Within Operafest she incarnated and co-directed Tosca, Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), Amelia in Verdi’s Masked Ball”, Puccini’s “Suor Angelica”. In 2022 she presented, produced “The Man of Dreams, the absolute premiere of the opera “The Man of Dreams” by António Chagas Rosa, commissioned by her, in São luiz Theatre following national tour, incarnating the main role. She also produced and directed it’s filmed version for RTP2 premiered in 2024. Presently she prepares Operafest 5ht edition, where she will sing Santuzza and Needa in the opening production of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci and she is preparing and operatic fiction series for TV.
Catarina Molder has an extensive performance experience and a repertoire that ranges from Verdi and Puccini to Schostakovith. Despite her dramatic voice she is moving with great ease to a more lyrical one, as well to musiktheater repertoire, contemporary opera and art song.
She presented and performed in the Main Portuguese Halls and Festivals with the main Portuguese Orchestras and created solo show s exploring opera and art song such as “Five ways to die of love” or “Mortal heroins”.
This visionary multifaceted soprano allies vocal and performing talent charisma with management and strategic view skills. She is opera singer, artistic director, TV presenter, TV director, producer, manager, instigator, provoker, not only interested in incarnating the big repertoire as a singer and performer, but also doing new opera commissions, moving opera into other formats, being an active player in paving new paths for this artform future.
She formed her own production company - Ópera do Castelo, one of the most significant independent Portuguese opera companies, known for its flexibility and dynamism, bringing an unprecedent vitality to the Portuguese operatic sector. With a pioneer work, widely recognized, she conceives , produces and performes in innovative opera projects, working with stage director and choreographers such as Tânia Carvalho, Miguel Loureiro, Olga Roriz, Aldara Bizarro, Michael Dieuaide, José Caldas among others.
Aiming at finding new eclectic ways of communicating and presenting opera to the audiences of today she created, sang and presented a TV Series, for the national TV channel RTP2 – Super Diva- Ópera para todos (opera for everyone), winning the Author Society 2013 Award for the best Cultural TV show 2013. Produced Super Diva’s 2nd Season (2015) and directed the (2018) 3rd (2018) season, co-produced by Unitel, worldwide distributed where participated many world opera stars such as Antonio Pappano, Renné Pape, Sonya Yoncheva, Magdalena Kozena or Rolando Villanzon and created the inedited Twitter Opera, short contemporary opera in short cut format.
She also has been greatly committed with communicating opera, art song and contemporary opera to younger generations, touring all over Portugal staged recitals for children (Chidren’s Universe, Lyrical fun and Cati, the witch, with electronic music) and created and recorded the cd/book Let’s sing the classics and the opera tale “The little Tomb and Babar the Elephant. For the Gulbenkian Foundation she conceived and directed during five seasons, the Educational Project “Discovering Music”: designing workshops to explore all kinds of musical languages, staged concerts, narrated concerts, mingling contemporary music, contemporary visual arts and opera, to reach out audiences of all ages.
She presented opera in many unconventional places and in varied transdisciplinary projects she designed to be presented in discos, in the public space, in public gardens, public transportations, schools and in the neighborhood.
She made several recordings for the National radio and performed with the main Portuguese Orchestras.
In 2020, during pandemic, she launched with great public impact the festival Operafest Lisboa, finally placing Portugal within the International Opera Festival circuit. Combining tradition and vanguardism, Operafest has commissioned multiple new works and premiered numerous pieces attracting a significant number of new opera enthusiasts and has established itself one of the most “outside the box” european opera festival. Within Operafest she incarnated and co-directed Tosca, Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), Amelia in Verdi’s Masked Ball”, Puccini’s “Suor Angelica”. In 2022 she presented, produced “The Man of Dreams, the absolute premiere of the opera “The Man of Dreams” by António Chagas Rosa, commissioned by her, in São luiz Theatre following national tour, incarnating the main role. She also produced and directed it’s filmed version for RTP2 premiered in 2024. Presently she prepares Operafest 5ht edition, where she will sing Santuzza and Needa in the opening production of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci and she is preparing and operatic fiction series for TV.
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