After graduating from Porto’s Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) and a remarkable period at the Opera Studio of Casa da Música, Eduarda joined the prestigious cast CNIPAL in Marseille.
Eduarda was awarded with the second prize in the International Singing Competition of Toulouse.
Since then she as been invited for numerous festivals in Europe working with directors such Marc Minkowski, Jérémie Rohrer, Ton Koopman, Hervé Niquet, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Antonello Allemandi in prestigious venues (Glyndebourne, Marseille, Lille, Nice, Caen, Dijon, Paris, Lisbon).
Eduarda Melo’s roles include Soeur Constance (Dialogues des Carmelites), La princesse Laoula (L’Étoile), Corinna (Il Viaggio a Reims), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Seviglia), Elvira (L’Italiana in Algeri), Norina (DonPascuale), Musetta (La Bohème), Despina (Cosi Fan Tutte), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Rinaldo (Armida/Myslivecek), Stéphano (Romeo et Juliette), Frasquita (Carmen), Gabrielle (La Vie Parisienne), Valencienne (La Veuve Joyeuse), Spinalba (Spinalba/Almeida), Fedra (L’Ippolito/Almeida), Ascanio (Lo Frate Nnamorato/Pergolesi), Zemina (Die Feen/Wagner), Vespina (L’Infedeltà Delusa/Haydn) and Elle (La voix Humaine).
In contemporary music she has privileged portuguese composers and has participated in several world premières by António Pinho Vargas, Nuno Côrte-Real, Luís Tinoco e Nuno da Rocha.
She regularly collaborates with Le Concert de la Loge (Julien Chauvin), Divino Sospiro and Ludovice Ensemble.
Her forthcoming engagements include Noémie (Cendrillon) Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Euridice (Gluck) Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and Bach concerts with Leonardo Garcia Alarcon at the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon.
