Melissa Domingues

• Bachelor and Master’s degree at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin
• Former member of the ensemble at the Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg
• Scholarship holder of the "Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob-Foundation“
• First prize at the “IX. Competition Carlos Gomes for the promotion of young singers” in Campinas, Brazil
• Semi-finalist of the international competition “Das Lied” in Heidelberg, Germany.

The Brazilian soprano Melissa Domingues completed her bachelor's degree at the Hanns Eisler

Academy of Music in Berlin in 2016 and her master's degree at the same university with Prof.

Britta Schwarz in February 2019 with distinction. In the 2017/18 season she was a permanent

member of the ensemble at the Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg, and in the 2019/29 season

she was part of the Academy of the RIAS Chamber Choir.

She first studied guitar at the Conservatório Carlos Gomes in Campinas - Brazil, where she

completed her technical education in 2007. In 2011 she completed a degree in literature at the

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, where she completed her first master's degree in 2014 with

a major in singing. After that, Melissa continued her singing studies in Berlin with Britta Schwarz.

She also received important impulses from the regular work with Julia Varady, Wolfram Rieger and

Peter Berne. In 2017 she was a scholarship holder of the "Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob-Foundation".

In September 2016 she won first prize at the “IX. Competition for the promotion of young singers

2016” in Campinas, Brazil. In 2023 she reached the semi-final of the world renowned international

competition “Das Lied” in Heidelberg, Germany.

Her solo concert repertoire includes Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" and “St. John Passion”, W. A.

Mozart’s “Requiem” and “C-Minor Mass”, Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater”, Mendelssohn’s “Elias”,

Villa-Lobos’ "Magnificat-Alleluia” and Beethoven's “Mass in C major” among others. Melissa

gained stage experience as a mezzo-soprano before her recent Fach change as Cornelia in

“Giulio Cesare in Egitto” by Georg Friedrich Handel, Ludmila in “The Bartered Bride” by Bedrich

Smetana, Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss, Frau Reich in “Die Lustigen Weiber

von Windsor” by Otto Nicolai, Dido in “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell, Cherubino in “Le

Nozze di Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and as Tisbe in “La Cenerentola" by Gioachino

Rossini.

Since completing her studies, she has also been a welcome guest at performances of chamber

music and sacred music in various German cities, most recently with the Ensemble Reflektor and

the Hamburger Symphoniker.