Valentina Farcas has worked with some of the foremost conductors and directors of our time including Maestros Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Kirill Petrenko, Jaap van Zweden, Nikolas Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Fabio Luisi, Rene Jacobs, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Paavo Järvi, Jeffrey Tate, Bruno Bartoletti, Bertrand de Billy, Thomas Hengelbrock, Alessandro de Marchi, Riccardo Frizza, Christopher Hogwood, Jonathan Nott, Stefan Anton Reck, Kent Nagano among others and stage directors Robert Carsen, Stefan Heerheim, Damiano Michieletto, Barrie Kosky, Laurent Pelly, Daniele Abbado, Cristina Muti, Guy Joosten among others. She has performed at the Opernhaus Zürich, Theater an der Wien, Salzburg Festival, Teatro Regio Torino, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Komische Oper Berlin, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Dallas Opera, Dallas Symphony, Teatro San Carlo Napoli, Teatro Regio di Parma, Tokyo Symphony, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Opera National de Lyon, Semperoper Dresden, Ravenna Festival, Savonlinna Festival, Spoleto Festival, Opera de Lausanne, Theatre de Champs-Elysees, Theâtre Capitole du Toulouse, Teatro Municipal Santiago Chile, and the Wiener Musikverein. Upcoming concert engagements in the 2021-22 season and beyond include Bruckner Te Deum with the Orquesta Nacionales de España, Madrid and Maestro Xian Zhang, Mahler Symphony #2 with Maestro Fabio Luisi and the DR Symfoniorkestret in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mendelssohn Elias with Maestro Fabio Biondi at the Teatro Regio di Torino, a return to the Hong Kong Symphony with Brahms Requiem and Mahler Symphony #4, Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Sankt Pölten Musikfestival, Haydn Die Jahreszeiten at the Rheingau Festival, a return to Copenhagen for Brahms Requiem with Maestro Fabio Luisi and the DR Symfoniorkestret. The future also brings a return to the Dallas Symphony with Woglinde/Waldvogel in Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen in concert with Maestro Fabio Luisi. Upcoming operatic engagements include a return to Opernhaus Zürich for the role of Despina in Mozart Cosi fan tutte. Appearances canceled due the COVID lockdown included a semi-staged performances and professional recording of Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio with Maestro Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Symphony for NAXOS records, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, and Jenny in Der Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in a return to Opernhaus Zürich as wells concerts of Beethoven 9th Symphony with Maestro Yutaka Sado and the Tonkünstler Orchestra Wien at the Musikverein in Vienna and with Maestro Fabio Luisi for RAI Torino.
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