About
Soprano Tatiana Carlos is acclaimed for her "a beautiful dark timbre" and for "displaying excellent projection and richness of phrasing."
The first Brazilian soprano to sing the role of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Tatiana debuted the role at the Amazonas Opera Festival in 2023. Her upcoming engagements include Turandot at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, a role she debuted in São Paulo earlier this year. In the past season, Tatiana sang Leonora in the Amazonas Opera Festival’s production of Il Trovatore, Moema and Jupyra in the homonymous operas at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, and Verdi’s Requiem at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo and Teatro Amazonas.
Tatiana has been awarded prizes in numerous prestigious international and national competitions, including the Laffont Competition of the Metropolitan Opera, the Eleanor McCollum Competition of the Houston Grand Opera, and the Premiere Opera Foundation’s International Vocal Competition. In Brazil, she has received awards in competitions such as the Maria Callas International Voice Competition, the Linus Lerner International Competition, the Francisco Mignone Chamber Music Competition, and the Villa-Lobos Chamber Music Competition.
Tatiana was seen as a Resident Artist at Bidu Sayão Opera Academy of Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro in 2016-17, where she performed scenes as Roselinde (Die Fledermaus), Leonora (La Forza del Destino) and concerts performing only brazilian songs by Heitor Villa-Lobos and a french concert performing Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé by Ravel.
She made her professional debut in 2016 as Barena in Jenufa at Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro. In 2019, she portrayed Elisabetta in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at Amazonas Opera Festival and was a guest artist in Vittorio Grigolo’s Grandes Vozes Concert at Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro.
She was a participant at the Premiere Opera Vocal Arts Institute in 2020-2021, working with Bruno Nicoli (Teatro alla Scala), Beatrice Benzi (Teatro alla Scala), Luisella Germano (Wiener Staatsoper), José Maria Codemi (San Francisco Opera) and the renowned singers Carol Vannes, Barbara Frittoli, Jane Eaglen and Cheryl Studer. Tatiana was seen as a Resident Artist at Bidu Sayão Opera Academy of Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro in 2016-17, where she performed scenes as Roselinde (Die Fledermaus), Leonora (La Forza del Destino). In 2017, she was one of the singers selected to take part of the masterclasses given by the Jette Parker Young Artist Program of Royal Opera House in Brazil, working with David Gowland. In the Summer of 2015, Tatiana participated in Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices.