The soprano Arminda Corêa (1903–1989), born in Lagos, moved to Lisbon at the age of 11, where she studied voice at the Conservatório Nacional with Augusto Machado and Artur Trindade, as well as privately with António Garcia. At the same time, she completed an advanced piano degree in the class of Adriano Mereia.¹
In the late 1920s, she collaborated as a lyric singer in the world premieres of several operas by Rui Coelho: Inês de Castro (1927), A freira de Beja (1927), O cavaleiro das mãos irresistíveis (1927), Belkiss (1928), and Crisfal (1929). She also took part in other significant events in Lisbon’s musical life at the turn of the 1930s, including the premiere of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis in 1929, Portugal’s representation at the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville in 1929, and the premiere of the St. Matthew Passion in 1931, among others.
In the 1940s, she appeared in recitals organized by the Emissora Nacional, which awarded her the Luísa Todi Prize in 1943 at the first Radio Artists Competition, whose jury included Pedro de Freitas Branco.²
She later taught at the Instituto de Música de Coimbra, the Academia de Amadores de Música, and the Conservatório Nacional. She retired from teaching in 1973 upon reaching the age limit, and died in Lisbon in 1989.³
