Mariana Rodrigues, soprano

Portuguese soprano Mariana Rodrigues has just completed her MA with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music in London with a full scholarship, under Marie Vassiliou, Raymond Connell, James Baillieu and Joseph Middleton, where she was awarded a DipRAM for outstanding final recital.

Rodrigues was a soloist for Academy Song Circle, Academy Voices, Resounding Shores, and the Bach in Leipzig series where she worked with Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Rachel Podger, John Butt, Peter Whelan and Dame Jane Glover, amongst others. Mariana has won the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize, Edna Bralesford Vocal Prize, Regency Award and the Flora Nielsen Prize. She has participated in Masterclasses with Iestyn Davies, Dame Felicity Lott, Joanne Lunn, Christian Gerhaher, Lucy Crowe, Malcolm Martineau and Hermut Hoell.

Recent engagements include a double recital debut at the Royal Albert Hall and Billy Cowie’s song cycle live premiere with her duo Chantefable, a concert in Cripta de la Sagrada Familia with Bachcelona and Sir John Clerk’s soprano solo cantata with Dunedin Consort. Upcoming opera roles include Ms. Slender in Salieri’s Falstaff for the Baroquestock Festival.
Recent festival appearances include Bachcelona, Bloomsbury, Baroquestock, Islington, Surrey Bach, and Vilalte in the south of France.

Young Artist Programmes for the 2025/2026 season include: Vache Baroque James Bowman Young Artist, Bachcelona AKADEMIE, Concertist Fellow with Oxford Bach Soloists, BREMF Emerging Artist with Chantefable and Next Generation Artist with Sestina Music.