Mireia Pintó
Born in Manresa (Barcelona), Mireia Pintó was rewarded with the most important prizes in several singing competitions in Spain and in Italy. Her extensive repertoire, which ranges from baroque to contemporary music, includes opera, oratorio and Lied. She has performed as soloist with several instrumental chamber ensembles and several orchestras, with well-known conductors such as L. Maazel, G. Dudamel, P. Maag, R. Bonynge, H. Rilling, P. Goodwin, E. Ericson, A. Zedda, J.C. Malgoire, O. Dantone, M. Armiliato, R. Frizza, M. Benini, F. Haider, M. Mariotti, F.P. Decker, B. de Billy, S. Fujioka, S. Weigle, Y. Traub, A. Anissimov, G. Noseda, M. Guidarini, A. Allemandi, and many others. She takes part in several concert cycles, music festivals and opera performances in Italy, Russia, Holland, Germany, Greece, Andorra, France, Monaco, Japan, Czech Republic, Colombia and Spain, including outstanding performances in the main concert halls and opera theatres.
In opera she performed: Giulio Cesare-Händel, La Cenerentola/Il Barbiere di Siviglia/ L´Italiana in Algeri/Il turco in Italia/Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini), Così fan tutte/II re pastore/Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), La serva padrona (Pergolesi), La Sonnambula/I Puritani/Norma (Bellini), Sly (Wolf-Ferrari), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Andrea Chénier (Giordano), Otello (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach), Roméo et Juliette/Faust (Gounod), Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz), Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer), Manon (Massenet), L´enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), Evgeny Oneguin/Pikovaia Dama (Tchaikovsky), Katia Kabanova (Janacék), Parsifal/Die Walküre (Wagner), Ariadne auf Naxos/Elektra/Salomé (Strauss), Babel 46 (Montsalvatge), Tassarba (Morera), La vida breve (Falla), Iphigenia en Tracia (Nebra), La Partenope (Vinci), and others.
She performed as soloist in: Weihnachts-Oratorium/Johannes Passion/Mass B minor/ Cantatas (Bach), Juditha Triumphans/Gloria/Moteten/Cantatas/Magnificat (Vivaldi), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Stabat Mater (Boccherini), Cantatas/The Messiah (Händel), Kantaten (Telemann), Jugendmesse/Cäcilienmesse/Scena di Berenice/Arianna a Naxos (Haydn), Requiem/Coronation Mass/Concert arias (Mozart), 9th Symphony (Beethoven), Petite messe solennelle/Stabat Mater/Giovanna d´Arco (Rossini), and many others.
About Liederabende, since 1992 she has a duo with the pianist Vladislav Bronevetzky, carrying out a substantial performing activity that brought them to several countries, at festivals and concert cycles (including outstanding concert halls, like Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Rachmaninoff Hall (Moscow), Hamarikyu Asahi Hall (Tokyo), and many others).
She has recorded the opera Sly by Wolf-Ferrari (next to J. Carreras), Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini), Die Walküre (Wagner) and Babel 46 (Montsalvatge). She also recorded the albums One life to live, next to Manel Camp, with works by Weill and Gershwin, and Pushkin in music, next to Vladislav Bronevetzky.
She is Professor in Singing and in Lied at the ESMuC (High Music School of Catalonia-Spain) and in many masterclasses in several countries. In 2011 she was rewarded by the Òmnium Cultural with the Bages Prize of Culture and in May 2017 she was rewarded with Regió 7 Prize of Culture. She is Manresa´s Ambassador 2022.
