Valentina Farcas

Valentina Farcas has worked with some of the foremost conductors and directors of our time including Maestros Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Kirill Petrenko, Jaap van Zweden, Nikolas Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Fabio Luisi, Rene Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Paavo Järvi, Jeffrey Tate, Bruno Bartoletti, Bertrand de Billy, Thomas Hengelbrock, Alessandro de Marchi, Riccardo Frizza, Christopher Hogwood and directors Robert Carsen, Stefan Heerheim, Damiano Michieletto, Barrie Kosky, Laurent Pelly, Daniele Abbado, Cristina Muti, and Guy Joosten, among others. 

She has performed at the Theater an der Wien, Salzburg Festival, Teatro Regio Torino, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Komische Oper Berlin, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Dallas Opera, Dallas Symphony, Teatro San Carlo Napoli, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Opera National de Lyon, Semperoper Dresden, Ravenna Festival, Opera de Lausanne, Theatre de Champs-Elysees, Theâtre Capitole du Toulouse, Teatro Municipal Santiago Chile, and the Wiener Musikverein.

Recent appearances include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in the Beethovenfest Bonn and a nationally televised concert from the Kölner Dom conducted by Kent Nagano, Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with Giancarlo Guerrero and the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido with the Gewandhaus Leipzig, her debut in the role of Zdenka in Strauss’s Arabella in a new Robert Carsen production and Fabio Luisi at Opernhaus Zürich, Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 with Fabio Luisi and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Final Scene of Strauss’s Capriccio with NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and Paavo Järvi, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor at the Bad Kissingen Festival with Paavo Järvi, and Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Komische Oper Berlin, among others.