Fabiana Portas

Mezzo-soprano Fabiana Portas began her musical studies at the age of five as a pianist. Throughout her training, she studied with Alex Sandra Grossi (piano), Aída Machado (music theory), Walter Bianchi and José Luís de Aquino (chamber music), and Roberto Dante and Mario Ficarelli (harmony and counterpoint). She subsequently devoted herself to classical singing, studying with Marcos Thadeu, Ricardo Ballestero, Francisco Campos, Graciela Araya (Chile), and Rosa Domingues (Argentina/Switzerland), as well as taking part in masterclasses with singers Ingeborg Danz (Germany) and Measha Brueggergrosman (Canada).

She joined the OSESP Choir in 2003. With the ensemble Lira D'Orfeo, she recorded the album Lundu de Marruá – As Modinhas Brasileiras dos Séculos XVIII e XIX in 2007. She participated in the Música nas Montanhas Festival (Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais) under the guidance of Professor Regina Elena Mesquita, performing the title role in Ernst Mahle's opera Maroquinhas Fru Fru. She also performed the roles of Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, under the musical direction of Mauro Wrona and stage direction of Iacov Hillel.

Her symphonic and chamber music repertoire includes Saint-Saëns's Christmas Oratorio with the University of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Mozart's Coronation Mass with the University of São Paulo Chamber Orchestra (OCAM) and the São Paulo State Choir; Handel's Messiah with the São Paulo City Orchestra and Choir; Alessandro Scarlatti's pastoral cantata Non so qual più m'ingombra, in its Brazilian premiere with the ensemble Audi Coelum; Vivaldi's Beatus Vir and Pergolesi's Magnificat with Orquestra Engenho Barroco and the São Paulo State Youth Choir; Bach's Cantatas BWV 39, 129 and 161, and his Magnificat; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Eos Música Antiga USP; Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore; Britten's A Ceremony of Carols; Bernstein's Chichester Psalms; Brahms's Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52; Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder, Op. 138; André da Silva Gomes's Missa a Cinco Vozes; Mozart's Mass in C major, K. 317; and Stravinsky's Mass, with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra and Choir (OSESP).