Anna Beatriz Gomes
Voice type: Soprano
Vita
Portuguese-Brazilian soprano Anna Beatriz Gomes is rapidly gaining international recognition for the versatility of her artistry, combining a brilliant lyric coloratura soprano with compelling stage presence across opera, contemporary repertoire and musical theatre.
During the 2025/2026 season, she appears as Anne Frank in Grigori Frid’s moving monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank at Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn (TOBS), Switzerland, before returning to her native Brazil to perform Eurydice in Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo. Highlights of the upcoming 2026/2027 season include her debut as Maria in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story at the Opernfestspiele am Saarpolygon, as well as the role of the Daughter in the world premiere of Christian Henking’s Trennt Euch! at Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn.
Recent seasons have seen Anna Beatriz Gomes return to Aalto-Musiktheater Essen as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, following her acclaimed role debut in the production during the previous season. At Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn she created the title role in the world premiere of Fabian Müller’s Heidi Celebrates Christmas and appeared as First Amourette in Ulysses, further demonstrating the breadth of her repertoire, which ranges from Mozart and Monteverdi to newly commissioned works.
A former member of the Bern/Biel Opera Studio, Anna Beatriz Gomes holds a Master’s degree in Specialized Music Performance – Opera from the Bern University of the Arts. She also completed professional acting training at the renowned Célia Helena Centre for the Arts and Education in São Paulo, where her studies included movement and physical theatre, providing an important foundation for her distinctive approach to music theatre.
In 2021, she reached the second round of the prestigious International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen. The following year she won the Young Artist Competition of the Trentino Music Festival in Italy, where she performed the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and made her debut as Virtù in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. Further engagements have included the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Adele in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus at the Berlin Opera Academy.
From 2019 to 2020, Anna Beatriz Gomes appeared as soloist in more than one hundred concerts with the Bachiana Philharmonic Orchestra in São Paulo under the artistic direction of the renowned pianist and conductor João Carlos Martins.
She made her professional operatic debut in 2018 as Feu in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at the Santa Catarina Music Festival. A year earlier, she appeared as Catalina in the world premiere of Ricardo Llorca’s zarzuela Tres Sombreros de Copa at Teatro Sérgio Cardoso in São Paulo.
Anna Beatriz Gomes began her operatic training at the age of eighteen at the Opera Studio of Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo, where she performed Emmie in Britten’s Albert Herring, Ernestine in Offenbach’s Monsieur Choufleuri, Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Papagena in The Magic Flute and Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. The production of Albert Herring was subsequently invited to the prestigious Winter Festival of Campos do Jordão.
Last update: 22.08.2026
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