Mariana hails from Almada, Portugal, she received her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she continues to study on the Opera Course under the tutelage of Marilyn Rees.

She was the recipient of the 2024 Susan Longfield Award, the 2024 Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors Vocal Prize and a finalist of the 69th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Concurso Internacional de Canto Lírico de Lousada and 12th Concurso de Canto Lírico Fundação Rotária Portuguesa.

She made her debut in Portugal with at OperaFest Lisboa in the role of Jody in I. Aboulker’s Jeremy Fisher. She has worked with West Green House Opera in their latest production of Suor Angelica in the role of Sour Dolcina, and Nedda in exerpts of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

At GSMD she has performed scenes singing the roles of: Magda from Puccini’s La Rondine, Arabella from Strauss’s opera of the same title, Tatjana from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Micaela from Bizet’s Carmen, Fiordiligi from Mozart's Così fan tutte, Donna Anna from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Contessa Almaviva from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Erste Dame from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica from Puccini’s opera of the same title, and Mimì from Puccini's La Bohème in opera scenes at the Guildhall.

Future plans include Rosalinde in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Aunt Norris in Dove’s Mansfield Park with the Guildhall Opera Course.

Mariana is a Josephine Baker Trust singer and a recipient of C & P Young Scholarship.

CV, biography and promotional photos in English and Portuguese