Berna Perles Tickets

Berna Perles was born in Málaga (Spain). She finished her Professional Degree in Piano and obtained the Higher Degree Certificate in Singing at the Superior Music School in Málaga, recognised with Distinction and awarded for the Outstanding Graduate of the Year. She attended a Postgraduate Course at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and completed her musical training at the Santa Cecilia Opera Studio, from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Subsequently, she broadened her studies in Vienna, with mezzosoprano Glenys Linos, disciple of Elvira Hidalgo. She has been taught master classes by Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, Mariella Devia, Teresa Berganza, Monserrat Caballé, Isabel Rey and Carlos Álvarez.

Berna has been awarded in numerous singing competitions (First Prize in the “Musical Youths of Spain Competition” and in the “Young Interpreters Competition in Málaga”, First Prize and Prize of the Public in “New Voices City of Sevilla”, First Prize in “Concorso Internazionale Mozart di Granada), Third Prize in the “International Singing Contest of Logroño” and finalist in the “International Singing Competition of Tolouse”, “International Umberto Giordano Competition”, “International Singing Contest Manuel Ausensi”, “International Singing Contest Villa de Colmenar Viejo”, “International Singing Contest Francesc Viñas” and “Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino”. In 2016 Berna receives the award for the Best Musical Work of the Year in her hometown.

Her professional career has made it possible for her to perform both in opera and zarzuela productions and lyric recitals, in theatres such as Teatro dell’opera (Rome), Auditorium of Santa Cecilia (Rome), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Teatro Comunale (Bologna), Teatro Garibaldi (Lucera), Royal Opera (Versailles), Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse), Opera de Massy, Le pin galant (Mérignac), Théâtre de Sète, Teatro Avenida (Buenos Aires), Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Teatro de la Maestranza (Seville), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), National Auditorium (Madrid), Teatro Cervantes (Málaga), Teatro Principal (Zaragoza), Gran Teatro (Córdoba), Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada).

She has sung under the baton of Dominique Louis, Martin Mazik, Lorenzo Mariani, Edmon Co-lomer, and Manuel Hernández Silva and under the stage direction of Lindsay Kemp, Emilio Sagi, William Orlandi or Riccardo Canessa.

She has interpreted, among others, the roles of Erste dame and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Contessa and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Bastienne (Bastien und Bastienne), Donna An-na and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Gilda (Rigoletto), Anna Bolena (Anna Bolena), Giulietta (Capuletti e Montecchi), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Musetta and Mimì (La bohème), Liù (Turandot), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Micaela (Carmen), Costanza (L’isola disabitata).

In zarzuela she has also interpreted the roles of Ascensión (La del manojo de rosas), Carolina (Luisa Fernanda), Katiuska (Katiuska) and Marola (La tabernera del puerto).

Among her interventions in oratorio, she has performed The Messiah (Haendel), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Requiem (Fauré), Requiem (Mozart), Requiem (Verdi), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Sym-phony Nº9 (Beethoven), “Coronation Messe” (Mozart) and Carmina Burana (Orff).

She has taken part in the recording of a duets CD, together with baritone Carlos Álvarez, under the record label DNRecords.