With her unique timbre and great expressiveness, Spanish mezzo-soprano Maite Beaumont is one of the most important singers in her field. Her artistic focus is on roles from the Baroque repertoire and the Viennese Classical period and extends to roles from the French repertoire and the operas of Richard Strauss. Among them are roles such as Ruggiero (Alcina), Sesto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto and La Clemenza di Tito), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Oktavian (Der Rosenkavalier). She also succeeds as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Romeo (I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Siébel (Faust), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride), Margarethe (La Damnation de Faust), Didon (Les Troyens), Medée (Medée) and Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos).

 

Maite Beaumont is a regular guest at the major international opera houses. Engagements have taken her to Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Barcelona, Madrid, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile and Chicago. She also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Schwetzingen Festival.

 

As a concert singer, Maite Beaumont has an extensive repertoire ranging from baroque music to contemporary works that she has personally premiered. She has worked with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Ensemble Resonanz, Les Talents Lyriques, Il Complesso Barocco, the Mozarteum Orchestra and the Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris. Among the renowned conductors with whom she has collaborated are Ivor Bolton, Christoph Eschenbach, Adam Fischer, Alessandro De Marchi, Alan Curtis, Christopher Hogwood, Ingo Metzmacher, Fabio Biondi, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Harry Bicket, Sir Roger Norrington, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniele Gatti and Daniele Rustioni.

 

She performed with various concert programs in the Vienna Musikverein and at festivals such as the Soli Deo Gloria Festival Braunschweig, the Kissinger Sommer, the Settembre Musica Milano, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Music Festival Schleswig-Holstein and the Ernen Music Festival.

 

Maite Beaumont was born in Pamplona (Spain) where she studied voice and violin at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory and sociology at the University of Navarre. She completed her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Hanna Schwarz.

 

Her discography includes several CDs and DVDs featuring operas by Händel, Mozart, and Haydn, among others, with internationally renowned conductors and on labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Virgin Classics. In 2024, her latest recording of Cimarosa’s opera L’Olimpiade, performed with Les Talens Lyriques under the baton of Christophe Rousset, was released.

 

In 2025, Maite Beaumont made a highly acclaimed debut as Dido. Upcoming engagements include a recital at Espacio Turina with the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and a performance of scenes from Schumann’s Faust at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, conducted by David Afkham.

Reviews

Maite Beaumont
Anna Bolena | Ópera de Oviedo

«Preparó así la primera gran jugada de la mezzo Maite Beaumont, una Giovanna Seymour inmensa, poderosamente dulce, que enamoró como lo hacía su personaje y que jugó como alfil el papel que abría todo un desarrollo de emociones a lo largo

Read more »