Royal Castle in Warsaw
SOPRANISTI
Bruno de Sá
Pedro Beriso
Period Instrument Orchestra of the Warsaw Chamber Opera
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense (MACV)
Bruno de Sá
Bruno de Sá … astounding … with a high register of soprano purity.(…) A true male soprano able to command thrillingly ringing tones … capable of exquisite cantabile incorporating a ravishing mezza voce.’
Opéra magazine
Brazilian-born male soprano Bruno de Sá first attracted national attention for his remarkable vocal range and stage presence in leading Mozart Britten and Puccini roles at São Paulo’s Teatro São Pedro and at the Festival Amazonas de Ópera, before rapidly establishing himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation on the international stage.
He made his European debut in 2019 as Aci in Bononcini’s Polifemo under the baton of Dorothee Oberlinger (Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci), and soon after joined the young artist programme of Theater Basel, performing Die Kleine Meerjungfrau in Bischoff’s Andersens Erzählungen and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Subsequent appearances included Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Oper Halle), Isacio in Hasse’s Irene with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra (Musiikkitalo Helsinki and Theater an der Wien), and a growing number of leading Baroque and Classical roles across Europe.
In the following seasons, Bruno de Sá debuted at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival as Berardo in Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo directed by Max Emanuel Cenčić. He later appeared as Abel in Scarlatti’s Il Primo Omicidio under Philippe Jaroussky at the Opéra de Montpellier and the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Further acclaimed performances included Volusio in Hasse’s Cajo Fabricio with {oh!} Orkiestra in Gliwice and Vienna, Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina at Drottningholm under Francesco Corti, and Cleopatra in Hasse’s Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra with {oh!} Orkiestra and Martyna Pastuszka. He also sang Farnaspe in Graun’s Adriano in Siria conducted by Dorothee Oberlinger, later presented at the Schlosstheater Sanssouci in Potsdam.
Recent highlights include his role debuts as Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice) and Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) at the Gluck Festival with Michael Hofstetter, Stephano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie under Pierre Dumoussaud, as well as Vinci’s Alessandro nell’Indie (Bayreuth Baroque, Martyna Pastuszka).
The 2024/25 season opened with Grain of the Voice, a contemporary pasticcio staged by Ligiana Costa at São Paulo’s Theatro São Pedro. Bruno de Sá then made his role debut as Oberto in Handel’s Alcina with Francesco Corti and il pomo d’Oro, touring to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Another major milestone was his house debut at the Komische Oper Berlin as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, in a new production by Kirill Serebrennikov conducted by James Gaffigan.
Beyond the opera stage, Bruno de Sá has become a sought-after concert soloist, performing across Europe with ensembles such as il pomo d’Oro (Francesco Corti), Les Accents (Thibault Noally), and Ensemble 1700 (Dorothee Oberlinger). Recent highlights include his acclaimed performance of Marias do Brasil at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, appearances at the Essen Philharmonie under Rubén Dubrovsky, and a gala evening at the Vienna State Opera alongside Cecilia Bartoli and Max Emanuel Cenčić. In July 2025, he was featured at Le Concert de Paris on Bastille Day, performing Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the Orchestre National de France conducted by Cristian Măcelaru — a landmark performance broadcast live to an audience of millions in over seventy countries.
Projects for the 2025/26 season include Bruno’s debut as Achille in Handel’s Deidamia at the Wexford Festival Opera, in a new production directed and conducted by George Petrou. He returns to the Komische Oper Berlin as Donna Elvira, and appears as Cleofide in Vinci’s Alessandro nell’Indie at the Theater an der Wien. Bruno de Sá will also return to the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival to sing Timante in Handel’s Floridante, and makes his house debut at the Opernhaus Zürich as Aci in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo under Philippe Jaroussky.
Bruno de Sá distinguished himself receiving the OPER! Award 2020 and the ForumOpéra trophy 2022 in the category “Best Newcomer of the Year”. In 2024, he also received the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for his performance of Aminta in Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s production of Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade conducted by Alessandro de Marcchi.
An exclusive artist of Erato / Warner Classics, Bruno de Sá released his first solo album Roma Travestita in 2022 to worldwide critical acclaim, performing the programme with great success in major venues from Versailles and Rouen to São Paulo and Buenos Aires. His second album, Mille Affetti — dedicated to Mozart and his contemporaries and recorded with Jarek Thiel and the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra — appeared in October 2024, followed by an extensive European tour including Florence, Rouen, Versailles, Budapest, and Bayreuth.
Pedro Beriso
Pedro Beriso is a conductor, pianist, continuo player and vocal coach whose artistry is rooted in a profound affinity for the operatic repertoire. He graduated summa cum laude from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona, where he studied conducting, piano and voice. He continued his training at the National Opera Studio in London with the generous support of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before joining the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera for a two-year residency.
From 2016 to 2024, he was a member of the music staff at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp and Ghent, working as a pianist and répétiteur. Alongside his operatic engagements, he distinguished himself as an accomplished teacher and vocal coach, joining the teams of the Dutch National Opera Studio in Amsterdam and the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival.
With an extensive operatic repertoire encompassing more than fifty titles, Pedro has collaborated with internationally renowned conductors including Robin Ticciati, Fabio Luisi, Trevor Pinnock, Enrique Mazzola, Philippe Herreweghe, Gianluca Capuano and Raphaël Pichon. He has also shared and developed his musical expertise in masterclasses and coaching sessions with artists such as Carlos Chausson, Neil Shicoff, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ann Murray, Brigitte Fassbaender, Kiri Te Kanawa and Cecilia Bartoli.
Since 2019, Pedro has appeared annually at the Glyndebourne Festival as a pianist and principal vocal coach. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2023 as vocal coach and harpsichordist for Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Vienna Philharmonic under Raphaël Pichon. Cecilia Bartoli subsequently invited him to join the production of La clemenza di Tito in 2024, followed in 2025 by Hotel Metamorphosis, as assistant to Gianluca Capuano, and Zaide, as assistant to Raphaël Pichon.
Pedro made his conducting debut in 2022 at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen with Così fan tutte and a programme of Mozart concert arias. In 2023, he co-created and conducted Ändere die Welt! for Dutch National Opera, a production subsequently revived at the Semperoper Dresden in the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons. In 2025, he was also preparing his conducting debut at the Kammeroper of Theater an der Wien with Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro.
In addition to his work as a conductor, pianist and vocal coach, Pedro Beriso is recognised for the imagination and refinement of his work as an arranger and editor. In 2025, he prepared the edition of Vivaldi’s pasticcio Hotel Metamorphosis for the Salzburg Festival. Ändere die Welt!, presented at Dutch National Opera in 2023 under his musical supervision, included his original arrangements. In 2022, he contributed to soprano Julie Fuchs’s solo album Amadé for Sony Classical as musical adviser and arranger. In 2021, he created the arrangement for a new version of L’elisir d’amore, co-produced by Opera Zuid, Dutch National Opera and Nederlandse Reisopera—an approach that confirms his commitment to both tradition and innovation.