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Born in
Argentina, Soledad Cardoso began her education at the Municipal Lyceum of
Santa Fe and subsequently completed her studies under the direction of
Denise Dupleix. She has sucessfully competed in numerous opera and clasical
music competitions receiving First Prize in many, including the Mozarteum of
Santa Fe, Asociación Promociones Musicales of the National Fund for Arts,
Pau Casals for Young Singers, and Banco Mayo Foundation. She also claimed
Second Prize at the Manuel Ausensi International Competition (Spain, 2000)
and First Mention at the Young Talent Competition of Art Channel. She has
been awarded too at the International Singing Competition of Clermont-Ferrand
(France, 2007). Soledad Cardoso recorded the first Argentinean opera
composed for children and has performed with the most important orchestras
of her country. She has appeared on many prestigious stages, such as the
French Club and the Salón Dorado of the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires). She was
given the Mozart Jubileo Tercer Milenium Award for her artistic merit and
relocated to Spain for further training with the noted tenor Alfredo Kraus.
There she received the distinction of remarkable student, a title delegated
to her by Queen Sofía. She continued her studies in Spain with Teresa
Berganza and participated in master-classes with Renata Scotto, Ileana
Cotrubas and Hakan Hagegard.
Soledad
Cardoso made her professional debut in the Teatro de La Maestranza of
Seville with Le Nozze di Figaro, where she has since returned to sing The
Cunning Little Vixen. Her repertoire includes operas such as Die Zauberflöte,
Arrieta's Marina, Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro, L'elisir d'amore and Le
Nozze di Figaro in the Teatro Villamarta de Jerez, Auditorio de Tenerife,
Auditorio de Galicia, Cádiz, Menorca and Teatro Campoamor de Oviedo with
Alain Lombard, Víctor Pablo Pérez, E. García Asensio, Antoni Ros-Marbà and
Paul Goodwin.
In the Teatro Real of Madrid, Soledad Cardoso appeared in Hidalgo's Celos
aún del aire matan with P. L. Pizzi and J. C. Malgoire, as well as in Manon,
Don Carlo, The Little Sweep, L'enfant et les sortilèges and Le Nozze di
Figaro with A. Ros Marbà. At the Mozart Festival of La Coruña she sang Le
Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Requiem, Exsultate, Jubilate, Haydn's
L'anima del filosofo, Cavalli's Gli Amori d'Apollo e di Daphne, Sartorio’s
Orfeo, and Handel’s La Resurrezione with Víctor Pablo Pérez, Jesús López
Cobos, Alberto Zedda and Eduardo López Banzo.
Soledad
Cardoso was invited to sing Scarlatti's Il Martirio di Santa Cecilia and
Venere, Amore e Ragione, Perti's Oratorio della Passione, Galuppi's
Confitebor tibi Domine and Dixit Dominus, and Handel's Il duello Amoroso
with Gérard Lesne and Il Seminario Musicale, in the Ambronay's Festival,
Champs Elysées (Paris), the Opera of Bordeaux, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu,
Royaumont, Dijon, the Opera of Avignon, the Opera of Montpellier, Le Havre,
Dardilly, Auch, Festival de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Festival de Noirlac, Festival
de Froville, Les Musicales du Lubéron, the National Opera of Rhin, Saint
Pétersbourg and Utrecht.
She was
selected by William Christie to take part of Le Jardin des Voix and joined
the orchestra of Les Arts Florissants for a European concert tour, visiting
prestigious concert halls and opera houses throughout Paris, Caen,
Frankfurt, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Bilbao and Brussels. With W. Christie
too, she sang L'incoronazione di Poppea in the Opera of Lyon.
Soledad Cardoso performed Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Anima Eterna and
conductor, Jos van Immerseel, in Murcia, Salamanca, Paris, Lisbon and Brugge,
as well as Bach's B minor Mass with the Bach Society of Holland and Jos van
Veldhoven. She also appeared with José Miguel Moreno (Orphénica Lyra),
Emilio Moreno (El Concierto Español, La Real Cámara), Raúl Mallavibarrena (Musica
Ficta, Ensemble Fontegara), Fahmi Alqhai (Accademia del Piacere) and Eduardo
López Banzo (Al Ayre Español), all programmes devoted to Spanish music of
the XVIth, XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, as well as Handel’s Gloria for
soprano, duets from Acis, Galatea e Polifemo, Samson, Rodelinda, Orlando,
etc., Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and Arie Accademiche, Bach’s Cantatas, etc.
She took
part in a European tour of Anfossi’s La Finta Giardiniera with Antonio
Florio and La Cappella de’Turchini, and sang Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des
Ersten Gebots with Martin Haselböck and the Wiener Akademie in Austria. She
was also invited to sing Poulenc's Gloria, Mozart's C minor Mass and Carmina
Burana with the Académie de Musique des Grandes Écoles et Universités and
the ensemble Choeurs et Orchestre du Palais Royal, in Paris.
Soledad
Cardoso has appeared in many performances at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus,
Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, Auditorio Nacional and Palacio de El
Pardo (Spain) with conductors such as T. Vásáry, J. J. Olives and R.
Frühbeck de Burgos. She recorded the Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios by Joaquín
Rodrigo (Sony), Júpiter y Semele by Antonio Literes (Harmonia Mundi) and Gli
amori d’Apollo e di Dafne by Cavalli (Naxos).
Highlights
in the 2007/2008 season include Peter Grimes with Josep Pons in the Palau de
la Musica de Valencia, Caldara’s La Passione with Antonio Florio in Italy
and France, as well as Faure’s and Gounod’s Requiems in Clermont-Ferrand.
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