SOFÍA MARA
General Management
Chrisni Mendis
chrisni@onlystage.co.uk
Susanna Stefani Caetani
susanna@onlystage.co.uk
biography
Born in Uruguay, Sofía Mara began her voice preparation and music studies at the University of Music in Montevideo. After receiving a scholarship from the Spanish Government, she moved to Spain where she continued her studies with prestigious baritone Prof. Tom Krause at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid and transferred finally to the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree with Prof. Julia Varady, Prof. Mitsuko Shirai and Prof. Hartmut Höll. She received master classes by well-known musicians and stage directors such as Reneé Fleming, Isabel Leonard, Christa Ludwig, Brigitte Fassbänder, Reri Grist, Helen Donath, Thomas Hampson, Marlis Petersen, Anne le Bozec, Michael Eliasen, Daniel Fueter, Peter Konwitschny, Giancarlo del Monaco, Tatjana Gürbaca and Stefen Herheim.
Sofía Mara has performed in numerous Halls, Theaters and Opera Houses in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, United States, France, Spain, Qatar, Argentina and Uruguay, such as Opera Graz, Opera Frankfurt, Opera Basel, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Festspielhaus Bayreuth, Carnegie Hall, Opéra-Théâtre Clermont Ferrand, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Teatro el Círculo, Teatro Solís, Auditorio Nacional SODRE, etc. In Opera she sang, among others, Cleopatra "Giulio Cesare", Alcina "Alcina", Susanna "Le nozze di Figaro", Pamina "Die Zauberflöte", Mathilde "Guillaume Tell", Lauretta "Gianni Schicchi", Marguerite "Faust", Stephana "Siberia", Amalia "I Masnadieri", Marie "Die Verkaufte Braut", Paracha "Mavra", Rosalinde "Die Fledermaus", Hanna "Die Lustige Witwe", Ascensión "La del Manojo de Rosas", Valentina "La Marchenera".
She also sustains a rich concert activity interpreting Bach's "Magnificat", Händel's "Messiah", Haydn's "Die Schöpfung", Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater", Brahms's "Requiem", Mozart's "Exultate Jubilate", etc. Deeply interested in song literature, Sofía has performed extensively in recital series such as AIE Spanish Artists Society's “Classics in Route", Baden-Württemberg Federal Government's "Konzerte der Region", Yehudi Menuhin Foundation's "Live Music Now", and participated in the SongStudio Program hosted by Renée Fleming at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The young artist performed in important International Festivals such as Bayreuther Festspiele (Germany), Davos Young Artist in Concert (Switzerland), Hildegard-Zadek Foundation (Austria), Festival Iberoamericano de Música Manuel de Falla (Spain), Festival La Escena Vocal, Festival Beethoven and Festival de Colonia (Uruguay).
Sofia Mara has been awarded scholarships from important institutions such as Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Oberrhein e.V., Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Hildegard Zadek Stiftung, DAAD, Freundeskreis Karlsruhe, Fundación Albéniz and Fundación Carolina.
Parallel to her solo career, she has developed an intense teaching activity. She was Assistant Voice Teacher of Prof. Julia Varady and Prof. Mitsuko Shirai at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, and Voice Teacher at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Lírico ENAL and Escuela Nacional de Formación Docente en Artes, institutions of higher education belonging to SODRE, Uruguay.