Josefina Legarra was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. The soprano began her musical training at the Faculty of Arts and the National School of Lyric Art of the Sodre. Since October 2022, she has continued her vocal studies at Nuremberg University of Music under Professor Brigitte Geller and has also joined Professor Marcelo Amaral’s art song class.
While in Germany, Legarra has performed in numerous classical, Baroque, and contemporary productions. She sang one of the Sibyls in Carl Orff’s opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia and was a soloist in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg. She was also a member of the Junges Stuttgarter Bach-Ensemble, the Singers Academy of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, the Académie Baroque Internationale at the ‘Festival du Périgord Noir’ and the World Youth Choir 2024.
She has also performed at the ‘lied:literatur Detmold’ festival and the ‘Her*Hits’ art song symposium in Hanover and Stuttgart with her art song duo, Cosima Fischer von Mollard. Josefina Legarra is a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Franken e.V. scholarship holder and winner of the Juan Carlos Gebelin Latin American singing competition in Montevideo.
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