Ligiana Costa is a singer, composer, stage director, and musicologist whose work unfolds at the intersection of art, thought, and transformation. Starting from the voice — as sonic material, embodied presence, and a vector of meaning — she moves across languages and forms, from Brazilian popular music to opera, from academic writing to dramaturgical invention.

She holds a PhD in 17th-century Venetian opera from the Universities of Tours (France) and Milan (Italy), and approaches opera not only as a historical repertoire, but as a field of experimentation, where politics, imagination, and tradition converge. Her research and artistic work explore hybrid forms and plural narratives, with a particular sensitivity to contemporary critical perspectives, including ecofeminism and decolonial thought.

Ligiana earned her undergraduate degree in classical singing at the University of Brasília, specialized in Baroque singing at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Netherlands), and completed a master’s in Musical Philology at the Musicology Faculty of Cremona (Italy). During this period, she also began performing Brazilian music and composing. Her albums include De amor e mar (recorded between Paris, São Paulo, and Brasília), Floresta (directed by Letieres Leite), the electronic duo NU (Naked Universe) with Edson Secco, the all-vocal project Eva, and most recently Sá – an oratorio for the Earth, where voice, ritual, and ecological urgency come together.

She is the author of scholarly books published by Unesp and Edusp and received the prestigious Flaiano Prize (Italy) in 2018 for her book Corego, the result of her postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo (USP). As a dramaturg, she has collaborated with institutions such as Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Festival Amazonas de Ópera, and Colombia’s Compañía Estable, and with directors including Carla Camurati, William Pereira, Cibele Forjaz, and Lisenka Heijboer Castañón (at the Juilliard School).

In 2025, she was selected for the Women Opera Makers program at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, under the mentorship of Katie Mitchell, and held a dramaturgical residency at the Opéra Comique in Paris — two pivotal experiences that deepened her engagement with contemporary operatic creation.

In recent years, Ligiana has developed original work as a stage director, exploring listening, embodiment, and radical presence. In 2024, she directed and co-created O Grão da Voz, an opera-theater piece with male soprano Bruno de Sá. In July 2025, she will make her debut at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with Marias do Brasil, a poetic documentary performance inspired by the lives and repertoires of two iconic Brazilian opera singers.

Ligiana moves between worlds — classical and popular, academic and intuitive — weaving an artistic practice rooted in beauty, listening, complexity, and reinvention.