BEATRIZ DÍAZ (soprano)

Since Beatriz Díaz was once invited by Maestro Riccardo Muti to sing Paisiello’s
Missa  Defunctorum at Salzburger Festspiele and Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, and afterwards played  Diana in Iphigénie en Aulide at Roma ́s
Opera, her career as a lyric soprano has been developed  intense and
progressively all over the World.

Born in Aller council in Asturias, northern Spain, she studied
with Elena Pérez Herrero and  afterwards had the chance to join several
Master Class with Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé,  Elena Obraztsova and
Mady Mesplé.

She was the absolute winner of the XLIV International Contest
“Francisco Viñas” and five more  special awards in that unforgettable
edition, as well as the Grand Prize at the “First Berliner  International
Music Competition”. She was also awarded in the International Competition
“Ciudad de Logroño”, “Julián Gayarre” and “Fundación Guerrero”.

Her more celebrated operistic performaces are Madama Butterfly, La
Bohème, Turandot,  Gianni Schicchi, Carmen, L’elisir d’amore, Don
Pasquale, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Falstaff  or Un ballo in maschera;
and her zarzuela’s interpretations include well-known tittles like La
generala, Los gavilanes, El Manojo de rosas, , La eternal canción or Black, el
payaso, together  with Baroque style plays: Viento(es la dicha de amor),
Clementina and El imposible mayor en  amor, le vence Amor. Regarding
contemporary music, she has taken part in the World  premieres of
Dulcinea, Cenerentola and Maharajá.

Her performaces have achieved successes in large National Theatres
such as Zarzuela and Real  in Madrid, Euskalduna in Bilbao, Maestranza in
Seville, Carlos V Palace in Granada, Pérez  Galdós in Las Palmas and in
notables International Theatres as La Fenice in Venice, Carlo Felice  in
Genoa, Massimo in Palermo, Comunale in Bologna and in Modena, Châtelet in Paris
and  Colón in Buenos Aires. Likewise she participated in exclusive
concerts in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat,  Qatar, Rabat or Tokyo, among
others.

She has been directed by important conductors: Daniel Oren, Paolo
Arrivabeni, Antonello  Allemandi, Pedro Halffter, Matteo Beltrami,
Friedrich Haider, Michele Mariotti, Alberto Zedda,  Óliver Díaz, Manuel Hernández
Silva, Alain Guingal and she has worked with outstanding stage  director
like Nuria Espert, Emilio Sagi, Ignacio García, Yannis Kokkos, John Copley,
Jonathan  Miller, Gustavo Tambascio, Mario Pontiggia, Damiano Micheletto
and Francesco Micheli. She has frequently worked with La Fura dels Baus as a
soprano in Carmina Burana , obtaining  an overwhelming triumph in Spain,
Macedonia and Taiwan.

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