João Luís Paixão is a baritone and researcher specialized in Early Music singing and historical acting. Since 2014, he has acted, coached, and staged in several opera and melodrama productions in The Netherlands and abroad. He is a PhD-applicant at the University of Amsterdam, conducting an artistic research on facial expression on the 18th-century stage. João Luís is an active member of the Dutch Historical Acting Collective, and he teaches at the Conservatories in The Hague and Utrecht.