Filipa Portela

Filipa Portela began her musical studies in Voice and Classical Guitar at the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory in Aveiro. She commenced her Bachelor's degree in Voice at the University of Aveiro in 2013 and completed her training with a Master's degree in Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2018.

She has frequently been praised for her strong theatrical presence on stage and her particular sensitivity in connecting with audiences.

In 2017, she was awarded First Prize and the Audience Prize ex aequo at the 19th Estoril Interpretation Competition. Since then, she has appeared as a soloist at Cistermúsica, Festoril, the Póvoa de Varzim International Classical Music Festival, Festival ao Largo and Operafest, as well as with the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, Filarmonia das Beiras Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Ensemble MPMP.

Filipa directed, produced and performed in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, presenting the production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2019) and in Leipzig (2022), supported by a Neustart Kultur grant, where it received four- and five-star reviews. She also commissioned three composers to write songs based on the Letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a project presented in June 2025 at the Júlio Dinis Museum in Ovar and broadcast by Antena 2.

Her operatic roles include Gilda (Rigoletto), Musetta and Mimì (La bohème), the First Lady and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Micaëla and Frasquita (Carmen), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Crobyle (Thaïs), and the Governess (The Turn of the Screw), performing at Operafest Lisboa & Oeiras (2022, 2023 and 2025), the Mediterranean Opera Festival (Sicily), the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, and the Centro Cultural de Belém.