Biography
At the age of 15, Liza Veiga began singing fado and started her artistic career as an actress and singer at the C.A.C. Theatre in Torres Vedras (Portugal). At 17, she became a professional fado singer at the Forcado restaurant (Lisbon).
At the age of 20, she enrolled at the National Conservatory, where she achieved the highest mark among 250 students as an opera singer. While still in her second year at the Conservatory, she was invited to Germany, where she remained for eight years, playing the lead role of Christine in the German version of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. During this period, she recorded her first solo album, accompanied by the Prague Symphony Orchestra, and participated in several operas, such as Mozart's The Magic Flute, where she received a standing ovation, giving voice and soul to the famous aria: 'The Queen of the Night'.
She began a process of merging various styles: opera, rock and pop. In 2014, she won the international FOX MUSIC AWARDS prize in the USA, in the BEST LIRIC VOICE FUSION category. In theatre, she has worked with several Portuguese and foreign directors, representing Portugal at the Opole International Theatre Festival in Poland with the play 'Inês de Portugal'.
In Portugal, we highlight the concerts held at the Salão Nobre do Conservatório Nacional, Salão Nobre do Palácio Foz, Museu da Música, Igreja de São Sebastião (Setúbal), Salão Nobre dos Paços do Concelho de Setúbal, among others. As part of a project by the EMCN Opera Workshop, she performed twelve recitals of Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute', playing the character of the 'Queen of the Night', at the Teatro da Trindade, Quinta da Regaleira, Palácio da Ajuda and Quinta da Bacalhoa, directed by Jorge Listopad. With the same director, she played the character Despina in Mozart's opera 'Cosi fan tutti', performed at the Jardim de Inverno do Teatro São Luiz and at the Cine-Teatro da Amadora. She sang the lead role of Kate in Cole Porter's musical 'Kiss-me Kate' at the Teatro de São Luiz, as part of the series 'Os Grandes Mestres do Musical Americano' (The Great Masters of American Musicals).
In 2015, she was the official singer at the 150th anniversary celebration of the Portuguese Red Cross at the Convento de São Francisco in Santarém. Three projects are currently in the process of being created: 'Cyber Diva', 'Diva Rock' and 'Madre Diva', which will lead to the recording of a second album with musician and producer Fernando Abrantes. In 2022, she was invested as a 'Lady' in the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, having started a project to promote the role of women in society. In recent years, she has participated in various public and private events in Portugal and abroad, where she has performed in the musical genres she masters: opera, fado and pop-rock.
