Statements & Press release:

impetuous, bitter and caressing, that enchanting voice ...
Franck Mallet, Classica Répertoire (France)

Thank you so much for creating such a diverse and wonderful event, one I would never have imagined! Thank you and REIS .. (what a beautiful voice !).
Lynne Hazelden (actress / Star Wars 1 & 2 / London)

Unique sound! Beautiful, Ominous at times, and Ethereal. Great Stuff!
RedHookFilms (New York film company)

Per me Reis è attuale e contemporanea, è anche elettronica, ma penso anche alla Luna e al sole, è una musica di oggi che ha molte sfumature ed ha una profondità che la spinge oltre. Per me è musica contemporanea (contemporary music), perchè nella musica di Reis c'è anche un sentire classico proiettato verso il futuro
Marco Betta (ex direttore artistico del Teatro Massimo , Palermo)

« La musique est signée Aldo Brizzi, un compositeur italien installé au Brésil, à Bahia, entouré de son groupe et de sa muse, Reis, dont la voix cristalline est le fil du spectacle. »
Valérie Bailly Buchet, Figaro Madame, 19 mars 2005

« E’ uscito di recente un disco con il gruppo di Brizzi, Aço do Açúcar, in cui spicca la vocalist Reis che canta con dolcezza ineguagliabile, in portoghese, la napoletanissima « Statte vicino a’mme »»
Brunello Vescovi, La Stampa, 10 maggio 2005 

« De ces acteurs-chanteurs, on retient surtout la prestation de Reis, dont la présence fantomatique, est accentué par sa voix superbe.
... Un cocktail riche et entraînant imprégné de percussions africaines envoûtantes ... »
F.H. Presse Océan – 9 mars 05

“...on découvre Reis, Une chanteuse magique qui joue le regard - La mirada, et que l’on a hâte de découvrir dans des compositions personnelles.”
Le Bazar d’Alekssandre, 14 avril 2005

“Il nuovo Brasile: con la vocalist Reis, Brizzi propone una musica al tempo stesso raffinata e piena d’energia.”
f. z., Il Messaggero, Roma, 2 Marzo 2004

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Artistic Biography

Graça Reis was born in Salvador Bahia, Brazil.
Studies as soprano at Bahia Federal University and then in Berlin with the prof. Turid Karlsen.
In 2000 started her career in Brasil singing classic and contemporary repertoire but along of the years she revealed herself also committed to give a special modern touch to the wide modern Brazilian songbook.

Reis appeared in many chamber and orchestral concerts singing Mahler, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Gounod, Strauss, Villa-Lobos.

In Brazil she appeared in operas such as "Hansel und Gretel", "Le Nozze di Figaro", "Madama Butterfly" and she is the main role in many contemporary operas by Brazilian composers: "5 Operas de bolso", "Pai Tuna", "Rei Brasil".
in 2005 she is "La Mirada" in the opera "Mambo Mistico" by Alfredo Arias and Aldo Brizzi at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris (also represented at Espace 44 in Nantes and Théâtre du Gymnase in Marseille).

Graça Reis recorded several albums: "Deolindo Froes" (Brazilian composer of early 19th century), "Aço do Açucar" (2005), "Reis" (2008) and "ReisProject" (2012). She has also recorded two songs in an album by Manuel Paulo Felgueiras (EMI Portugal-2004).
Recordings for Brazilian, Italian, French and Mexican TVs among others.

After 2007 she performed at Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City; Southbank Center London; Palazzo Reale, Milan; The Cairo Opera House; Montreux Festival; Oi Futuro Ipanema,Rio de Janeiro; TCA, Salvador Bahia; Auditorium BdB, São Paulo; Festival Neue Musik, Bamberg; Teatro Mercadante, Naples; etc.

First price at "Conexão Vivo" national singing competition, 2009.

Main role in the new operas "Alter" (represented in France in 2012 in 8 towns) and "Gabriel et Gabriel", with stage direction of John Dew, in 2014 in Rungis and Dunois Theater in Paris.

In 2015 she taked part of an overcrossing project (from Palestrina to Scelsi) with Raghunath Manet and Rohan de Saram, performed in Rome, Perugia and Assisi.
In the same year with the accordion player Gianni Coscia and the pianist SIlvia Belfiore did a tour with music by Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Villa-Lobos and Jobim.

In October 2015 was invited to sing the "Wesendock Lieder" in Nice by Richard Wagner International Cercle. 

In 2016 she is Treemonisha in a new production of "Trremonisha"  by Scott Joplin of the Núcleo de Ópera de Bahia presented in Brazil and Lisbon. 

In 2017 first performance of Wieder, a cycle of lieder for voice and electronics by Aldo Brizzi performed in Finland and Italy. Then she take part of the tour "Preludio" with Gilberto Gil and the Núcleo de Ópera de Bahia (UK, Switzerland, Finland, Italy).

In 2019-20 she is Oxúm in the Ópera dos Terreiros, presented in Grenoble, Rome, Salvador and recorded by TVE.

She is Maria in the opera "Jelin", Alessandria, Teatro Regionale.

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