In recent seasons, Puerto Rican-American soprano Sophia Burgos has established herself internationally as a singer of outstanding intelligence, musicality, and stage presence.
Her recent opera and concert engagements include the roles of Pamina in »The Magic Flute« at the Volksoper in Vienna, Teresa in »Benvenuto Cellini« with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (winner of the German Record Critics’ Award), and Fox in »The Cunning Little Vixen« with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle (nominated for a Grammy Award in 2022); Anne Trulove in »The Rake’s Progress« with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski; and Grisey’s »Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil« with Klangforum Wien and Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Ruhrtriennale. Other notable performances include Barber’s »Knoxville: Summer of 1915« with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; works by Vivier and Crumb with Klangforum Wien at the Salzburg Festival; and George Crumb’s »Ancient Voices of Children« with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. She has also performed Czernowin’s »Atara« with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Matthias Pintscher, and has given recitals in the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan.
Together with her lied duo partner, Daniel Gerzenberg, she has received numerous prizes, including the Staetshuys Fund Prize and the Van Riemsdijk Prize at the 54th International Singing Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch in 2022, as well as 2nd Prize and the Special Prize at the »Schubert and the Music of Modernity« competition in Graz in 2018.
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Music and Abuse
Discourse, VocalDaniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, Sophia Burgos, Kerstin Claus
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