Portuguese soprano Beatriz Maia studied at the Coimbra Conservatory, the University of Aveiro and the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding.

She is a prizewinner of the 2026 Cascais Opera Competition, where she received the Audience Prize, the graduate competition at the Theater an der Wien, where she won First Prize and the Audience Prize, and Great Singers for Today’s Opera, where she likewise received First Prize and the Audience Prize.

She made her operatic debut in 2024 as Marie in La Fille du régiment at the Festival de Ópera de Óbidos. Her repertoire includes Flora (The Turn of the Screw), Despina (Così fan tutte), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Claudine (La Fille du tambour-major), as well as Pamina and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte). She has also appeared as Venus in Thomas Augustine Arne’s The Judgment of Paris and in Darius Milhaud’s Le Pauvre Matelot.

Since 2015, she has performed regularly in concert with pianist Gustavo Afonso. Together with composer Diogo Santos, she published the songbook OTNAC.

Her most recent projects include the world premiere of the music-theatre production V01CES // B0D1EZ at the Munich Biennale in May 2026. From the 2026/27 season, Beatriz Maia is a member of the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera.