Born in Stockholm, Désirée Baraula Massari studied at the Opera Academy in Stockholm where she graduated in 2015. Then she took part in the Young Artist Programme at the National Opera in Oslo, Norway.
In 2014, she interpreted the role of Zerlina in the newly composed opera Min bror är Don Juan with music by Mozart and Niklas Brommare at the Royal Swedish Opera.
She has several times won scholarships from the Swedish Royal Music Academy and in 2015, she won the Bayreuth scholarship. In December 2016, she was chosen to sing at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. In 2018, we saw her in the title role of Carmen at the Operaen in Kristiansund and also Sandefjord, Norway.
She was seen at the Norwegian National Opera as The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Suora Zelatrice in Suor Angelica. In summer of 2021, she sang the part of Zaida in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia at Glyndebourne Opera Festival and in 2022 she sang Emilia in Verdi’s Otello at OscarsborgOperaen in Norway. Later that same year, she was seen at the Norwegian Opera singing the role of Sylva in Czardàsfürstinnen by Kalmàn.
