João Terleira from Portugal studied at the Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo Porto. He was also a member of the International Opera Academy Gent under the direction of Guy Joosten.
In 2018/19, he made his debut at the renowned Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Cavaliere Belfiore in »Il viaggio a Reims« and appeared as Tamino (»Magic Flute«) at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and as Lindoro (Gioacchino Rossini's »L'Italiana in Algeri«) at the Alden-Biesen Zomeropera. João Terleira is a welcome guest on various stages and at festivals in Germany and abroad. He has sung at venues such as the Opera Vlaanderen (Antwerp/Ghent), the Kiel Theatre, the Eutin Festival and the Alden-Biesen Zomeropera. He has also shone on the most important stages in his native Portugal (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Teatro Trindade, Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Casa da Música in Porto, etc.). In addition to a busy concert schedule – centred on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – he has attracted attention with numerous recitals of works by Franz Schubert, Benjamin Britten and Hugo Wolf.
The central Mozart roles in his repertoire (Don Ottavio in »Don Giovanni«, Ferrando in »Così fan tutte«, Pedrillo in »Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tamino in »Magic Flute«) as well as tenor roles of the Bel Canto (Beppe in Gaetano Donizetti's »Rita« as well as Ernesto in »Don Pasquale« or various Rossini roles) form a focal point of his operatic repertoire.
He has been a member of the ensemble at the Heidelberg Theatre and Orchestra since the 2019/20 season, where he has thrilled audiences with roles such as Camille de Rossillon (»The Merry Widow«), the Chamberlain in Hans Gál's »Die heilige Ente« and Joaquino (»Fidelio«). In the 2021/22 season, in addition to his highly acclaimed debut as the Painter in Alban Berg's »Lulu«, he also celebrated great success in Heidelberg in the world premiere of the music theatre production »Gerade sein und Mensch werden: Sophie Scholl«. This was followed in 2022/23 by Conte Almaviva in »Il barbiere di Siviglia« and Truffaldino in »The Love for Three Oranges«. João Terleira last appeared as Eurilochus in »Ulysses« and as Daniel in »Nebucadnezar«, both operas by Reinhard Keiser, as part of the Winter Baroque Festival in Schwetzingen.
In autumn 2023, he made his debut at the world-famous Musikverein Vienna with the same piece that he sang with an orchestra for the first time at the beginning of his career: Mozart's Requiem.