With an exceptional vocal technique and a timbre opulence that is rare for this range, the 'Brazilian-Chilean' coloratura soprano Maria Carla Pino Cury is well on the way to carving out a flattering reputation for herself on the international music scene.

Maria Carla was born into a family of musicians in Paraíba, Brazil. She began her studies at the Federal University of her home town and, after a master class with Margreet Honig in Santiago, Chile, she was invited to study at the Musik-Akademie Basel in Switzerland. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in 2016 and her Master's degree in 2018, receiving the highest congratulations from the unanimous jury. She was named Talent of the Migros Culture Percentage Foundation in 2017 and 2018.

During her Swiss studies, Maria Carla worked closely with Theater Basel for several years, making her debut as the Princess, the Bat and the Pastourelle in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Lucia in a highly acclaimed production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Papagena in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Soleil and Musaraigne in the world premiere of Richard Ayres' The Cricket recovers. Other highlights include Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona in a production by the Kammerakademie Basel.

The young soprano sings throughout Europe, as well as in her native South America, in scores as diverse as Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras, Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, Handel's The Messiah and Bach's cantatas. She has appeared at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Poland and the Rheingau Musik Festival in Germany, not to mention concerts in Italy under the baton of Gustav Kuhn. In Brazil, she has been invited by the Paraíba and Campinas Symphony Orchestras. In Chile, she worked with the Concepcion Symphony Orchestra as part of the Chilean Lyric Convention, where she received an award for her achievements abroad.

From 2018 to 2020, Maria Carla Pino Cury is a member of the Opera Studio of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf-Duisburg. Her roles include, among others, Oberto in Händel's Alcina, Tebaldo in Don Carlo and the Page in Verdi's Rigoletto, The Sandman in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, The Queen of the Night and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte für Kinder, as well as The Princess in The Snow Queen by Marius Felix Lange (a role later revived at Bonn Opera).

Last season, Maria Carla Pino Cury appeared in the formidable role of Weird Sister in Pascal Dusapin's Macbeth Underworld at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, sang the soprano part in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias at the Konzertverein in Langnau, Switzerland, and the role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea with the Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis conducted by Francesco Corti.
In the summer of 2022, she made her French debut at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in the stratospheric role of Lucia in the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Il Viaggio, Dante, directed by Claus Guth.

The 2023/2024 season illustrates her two loves, creation and Italian belcanto. At the Opéra de Toulon, she is Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, then Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi. At the Opéra-Comique in Paris, she will reprise the role of Weird Sister in Macbeth Underworld.