A N A  Q U I N T A N S   S O P R A N O

Ana Quintans was born in Lisbon and developed her artistic skills in many directions as she did her first steps in theater and dance. After graduating in Sculpture in Lisbon Fine Arts University (1998) she studied singing at the Music Conservatory in Lisbon and joined the Flanders Operastudio in Gent (with a scholarship by Gulbenkian Foundation).

Devoting most of her work to the baroque repertoire, Ana Quintans has collaborated with many leading baroque orchestras as Les Arts Florissants; Il Complesso Barocco; Les Musiciens du Louvre; Le Poème Harmonique; Cappella Mediterranea; Ensemble Pygmalion; Al Ayre espanol; Concerto de' Cavalieri; Il Pomo d'Oro; Les Talens Lyriques; Les Folies Françoises; Divino Sospiro and Músicos do Tejo.

Operatic highlights include roles like Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi at Salzburg Festspiele, Teatro Real de Madrid and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Amour in Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau at Glyndebourne Festival; Belinda in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell at Opéra de Rouen and in Thêatre Royale de Versailles;  Amore in Egisto by Cavalli in Opera Comique Paris; Jonathas in David et Jonathas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence Festival and Edinburgh, BAM New York and Opera Comique Paris; title role in Alceste by Gluck in TNSC directed by Graham Vick; Ilia in Idomeneo by Mozart at TNSC Lisbon; Despite in Così fan Tutte by Mozart at Glyndebourne Festival; Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck in Salzburg Mozartwoche and Scottish Opera; Sangaride in Atys by Lully at Grand Thêatre de Genève; title roles in La Spinalba and Ippolito by F. A. Almeida in Casa da Música Porto and CCB Lisbon.

Her concert repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to contemporary music. The portuguese composer Luis Tinoco wrote for her voice works like From the Depth of Distance, Songs of a solitary dreamer and the role of Nancy in Evil Machines, a musical fantasy staged by Terry Jones.

Has collaborated with conductors such as Michel Corboz; Ivor Bolton; William Christie; Marc Minkowski; Alan Curtis; Vincent Dumestre; Leonardo García Alarcón; Paul McCreesh; Antonio Florio; Enrico Onofri; Andrés Orozco Estrada; Raphael Pichon; David Alan Miller; Laurence Cummings; Maxim Emelyanychev; Marcos Magalhães; Marcello di Lisa; Aapo Hakkinen; Riccardo Minasi, Graeme Jenkins; Leopold Hager and Francesco Corti.
Performed as soloist in venues like Teatro alla Scala; Grand Théâtre de Genève; Elbphilharmonie Hamburg; Opéra de Lyon; Opéra Comique de Paris; Salle Pleyel Paris; Salzburger Festspiele; Teatro Real de Madrid; DNO Amsterdam; De Vlaamse Opera Gent; Festival d’Aix en Provence; Teatro Municipal de São Paulo; Mariinsky Theater Moscow; Tchaikovsky Concert Hall St. Petersburg; Victoria Hall Geneva; Teatro Nacional São Carlos Lisboa; Scottish Opera; Edinburgh International Festival; Bozar Brussels; Wiener Festwochen; Salle Gaveau Paris; Opera d’Avignon; Théâtre de Rouen; Centro Cultural de Belém Lisboa; Carnegie Hall New York; BAM Festival NY; Festival Ambronay; Casa da Música Porto; Helsinki Music Center; Stadttheater Klagenfurt; Lasdestheater Bregenz; Cité de la Musique Paris; Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Concertgebouw Amsterdam and La Folle Journée Tokyo.

​This season Ana Quintans is performing Maria in La Passione di Gesù by Leonardo García-Alarcón; Euridice in Orfeo ed Eudirice by Gluck at Festival de Ópera de Óbidos; Hébé and Emilie in Les Indes Galantes by Rameau in Geneva and Köln; Eurydice in Orphée et Eurydice by Gluck (Berlioz version 1859) at Flanders Opera; Belinda in Dido and Aeneas at Théâtre des Champs Élysées Paris; will tour the program Aux Cours du Monde with Le Poème Harmonique in South Korea and will perform Oratorio per la Settimana Santa by Luigi Rossi with Les Arts Florissants.