Biography

The Brazilian soprano Melissa Domingues completed her bachelor's and master‘s degree at the „Hanns Eisler“ Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof. Britta Schwarz with distinction. She also received important impulses from the regular work with Julia Varady, Wolfram Rieger and Peter Berne. Since 2023 she has been working on her singing development together with Ulla Groenewold in Hamburg, who’s coaching her through her Fach change.

She first studied guitar at the Conservatório Carlos Gomes in Campinas - Brazil, where she completed her technical education in 2007. In 2011 she completed a degree in literature at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, where she completed her first master's degree in 2014 with a major in singing. After that, Melissa continued her singing studies in Berlin with Britta Schwarz. In 2017 she was a scholarship holder of the "Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob-Foundation". In September 2016 she won first prize at the “IX. Competition for the promotion of young singers 2016” in Campinas, Brazil. In 2023 she reached the semi-final of the world renowned international competition “Das Lied” in Heidelberg, Germany. In the 2017/18 season she was member of the ensemble at the Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg, and in the 2019/20 season she was part of the RIAS Chamber Choir‘s Academy and since 2023, she has regularly appeared as a guest artist in projects with the NDR Vokalensemble.

In May 2025, she made her official soprano debut as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro – in two distinct productions: at Theater Neustrelitz/Neubrandenburg and at Theater Vorpommern in Stralsund.

Before that Melissa gained stage experience as a mezzo-soprano as Cornelia in “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” by Georg Friedrich Handel, Ludmila in “The Bartered Bride” by Bedrich Smetana, Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss, Frau Reich in “Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor” by Otto Nicolai, Dido in “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell, Cherubino in “Le Nozze di Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and as Tisbe in “La Cenerentola" by Gioachino Rossini.

Her solo concert repertoire includes Palmeris “Tango Magnificat”, Bach's "Christmas Oratorio“, W. A. Mozart’s “Requiem” and “C-Minor Mass”, Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater”, Mendelssohn’s “Elias”, Villa-Lobos’ "Magnificat-Alleluia” and Beethoven's „Christus am Ölberge“ as well as “Mass in C major” among others. Since completing her studies, she has been a welcome guest at performances of chamber music and sacred music in various German cities, most recently with the Ensemble Reflektor and the Hamburger Symphoniker.