Sara Braga Simões

She made her operatic debut as Volpino in Haydn's Lo speziale with the Orquestra de Câmara Musicare, conducted by Bertrand Broder.

[1] In March 2004 she sang the leading role of Marta in the world premiere of José Eduardo Rocha's opera Os fugitivos (Lisbon, Teatro da Trindade), which was later broadcast on Portuguese television.

[3] Simões made her debut at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos as Lady-in-waiting in Verdi's Macbeth in June 2007 and has since returned to the opera house as Pamina in a special young people's version of Mozart's The Magic Flute[4] and as a soloist in the concert inaugurating the theatre's 2007/2008 season.

[6] On 12 January 2008, Simões sang in the world premiere of Evil Machines, an opera composed by Luís Tinoco to a libretto by Terry Jones (Lisbon, São Luiz Municipal Theatre).

In October 2008 Sara Braga Simões and pianist Luís Pipa recorded a CD of the complete works for voice and piano by 20th-century Portuguese composer, Eurico Thomaz de Lima, to be released later in the year.