A coloratura Soprano
active not just in the opera repertoire as in chamber music
and contemporary music, Caroline De Comi is one of the most
flexible Brazilian singers of the young generation.
Among her most recent
performances are Queen of the Night, in W. A. Mozart's Die
Zauberflöte, in the Municipal Theater of Santiago
(Chile), and Marzelline, in Beethoven's Fidelio, in
the Municipal Theater of São Paulo (Brazil). She has
perfomed in opera roles in the Municipal Theater of São
Paulo such as Stravinsky's The Nightingale (in the
title role) and in the awarded staging of Ravel's L’enfant
et les sortilèges (as the Fire, the Princess and the
Nightingale). She has performed in stagings of Rigoletto
(Gilda), Fidelio (Marzelline), Lucia de
Lammermoor (Lucia), Die Zauberflöte (Queen of
the Night), Der Schauspieldirektor (Madame Herz), Il
Matrimonio Segreto (Elisetta), La Traviatta
(Violeta), Don Pasquale (Norina), Il Barbiere
di Siviglia (Berta and Rosina), La Serva Padrona
(Serpina) and in the premiere of the also awarded O
Menino e a Liberdade (as “the maiden”), by Ronaldo
Miranda. She has worked under stage directors Myriam Singer,
Lívia Sabag, Mauro Wrona, João Malatian, Alvize Camozzi,
Regina Galdino, Marcia Milhazes and Cleber Papa. Alongside
with Companhia Ópera Curta, she performed in several
performances as Rosina, in Il Barbiere di
Siviglia and as Violetta, in La Traviatta. In
2010, she was awarded by the blog “Ópera e Ballet” the
lyrical highlight of the year for her performance as Gilda,
in Verdi's Rigoletto, in the Teatro São Pedro.
She has performed as a
concert soloist in works such as Stabat Mater by
G. B. Pergolesi, The Creation by Haydn (as Eva), in
the Coronation Mass and Exsultate Jubilate by
W. A. Mozart, Oratorium Ester by Antonio Leal
Moreira (Ester and Harbona), Mass in G by F.
Schubert, Requiem by G. Fauré, Christmas Oratorium
by Saint-Saëns, in The Messiah by Haendel, Les
Illuminations by Britten, Tragédie de Salomé
by Florent Schmitt and in the premiere of Cantata para
Caroline by Maurício De Bonis. She has appeared in
concerts with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
(OSESP), Orquestra Experimental de Repertório (OER),
Orquestra Acadêmica de São Paulo, Orquestra de Câmara da
USP, Orquestra Sinfônica da USP, Coro da OSESP and Orquestra
Municipal de Jundiaí. She worked under conductors Roberto
Minczuk, Jamil Maluf, Cláudio Cruz, José Luis Domínguez, Yan
Pascal Tortelier, John Neschling, Roberto Duarte, Gabriel
Rhein Schirato, Emiliano Patarra, Carlos Moreno, Claudia
Feres, Jack Fortner, Naomi Munakata, Luciano Camargo, among
others. She was a soloist in some of the most important
concert halls in the country, as the Theatro Municipal de
São Paulo, Sala São Paulo, Theatro São Pedro, Teatro Arthur
Rubinstein, Auditório Cláudio Santoro (in Campos do Jordão),
CPFL Cultura (in Campinas), Sala Cecília Meirelles (in Rio
de Janeiro), Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro (in Brasília),
the Brazilian Embassy in Assunción, Paraguai. She was
recently on tour by several North American cities such as
Riverside, Santa Clara, Baton Rouge and Philadelphia.
Caroline graduated in
Singing by the University of São Paulo, where she started
her voice studies with tenor Benito Maresca. Having had
Isabel Maresca as her main vocal counselor, she has attended
courses and masterclasses in Brasil and abroad with Tamás
Salgó, Niza de Castro Tank, Anna Korondi, Susan Bullock,
Christina Landshamer, Peter Schreier, Luisa Castellani, Ian
Storey and Eleonora Leonini.
She participated
in the concert cycle “Willy Manifesto” (as a hommage to
Willy Corrêa de Oliveira's 70th Birthday), in the series
Panorama da Música Brasileira (Unicamp), in the 39th
Brazilian Contemporary Music Bienalle and participates often
in the Festival Música Nova in São Paulo. Frequently
presenting world premieres and having several compositions
dedicated to her, Caroline has been performing in Brazil and
abroad along with respected Brazilian musicians as Maurício
De Bonis, Gilson Antunes and Joaquim Abreu. Among her
recorginds are the DVD “A Flauta Mágica, o Maestro e a
Feiticeira” (TUCCA), the CD “Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, o
presente” (ÁguaForte), the CD “Olivier Toni: Só Isso e Nada
Mais” (SESC) and the CD Festival Musica Nova (SESC).
Since 2019 Caroline De Comi is a member of the Municipal
Lyrical Choir of the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.