Marina Cuesta

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She won first prize at the 11th Valleseco International Zarzuela Competition (Gran Canaria) and the audience prize at the 5th Josep Palet Singing Competition in Martorell (Barcelona). She graduated from the Sabadell Opera School after winning the Mirna Lacambra competition for the role of Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. She participated in the program Aria: locos por la ópera (Aria: Crazy for Opera), broadcast on La 1 of RTVE, reaching the finals.

Born in Huelva, she began her musical studies at the age of eight at the Javier Perianes Professional Music Conservatory, where she specialized in cello. In 2015, she received the Extraordinary Baccalaureate Award from the Regional Government of Andalusia.

A student of Professor Gloria Fabuel, she completed her undergraduate studies in performance at the Joaquín Rodrigo Higher Conservatory of Music in Valencia, specializing in cello and voice, obtaining top marks and the extraordinary end-of-degree award. She also completed a Master's degree in Operatic Performance at the same institution, finishing in 2024.

He has perfected his skills with singers, repertoire teachers and orchestra conductors such as Nicola Beller, Aquiles Machado, María Katzarava, Adrià Gràcia, Aurelio Viribay, Nauzet Mederos, Pablo García-Berlanga, Laïla Barnat, Rubén Sánchez-Vieco, Ernesto Palacio, Ana Luisa Chova, Daniel Gil de Tejada, Giulio Zappa, Cristóbal Soler, Ofelia Sala and Patricia Llorens, among others.

She has participated in several operatic productions: L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Fire, the Princess and the Nightingale), Così fan tutte (Despina), Die Zauberflöte (chorus), Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina, Susanna), Carmen (Frasquita, chorus), Las dos Elenas (Elena Mateo, world premiere of this micro-zarzuela, 2023), and The Tales of Hoffmann (chorus), among others. She has sung with the Orchestra of the Federation of Musical Societies of the Valencian Community and the Orchestra of the University of Valencia, at the Palau de la Música and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, where she has also joined the Cor de la Generalitat in productions such as Turandot. She debuted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Valencia in 2023 with Cristóbal Soler. She was a finalist in the Musical Youth Competition (December 2021), the 10th International Habanera Competition for Lyric Soloists in Torrevieja (2022), and the 40th “City of Logroño” Competition (2023). She was also among the fifteen finalists in the auditions for the Paris Opera Academy.

She regularly collaborates as a soloist with the Nostrum Mare Camerata, under the direction of Jacobo Christensen, with whom she has performed in numerous concerts and with whom she will soon present the album "Sólo NMC" at the Ateneo de Madrid. She has also sung alongside soprano Ainhoa Arteta at the Gran Teatro de Huelva, and participated in the contemporary dance performance Kabul in Valencia.

Her repertoire includes characters such as Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Giulietta (I Capuleti ei Montecchi), Serpina (La serva padrona) and Marie (La fille du régiment); sacred and symphonic works such as Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, JS Bach's Cantata 202 “Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten” and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; as well as various cycles of concert song and lied.

Among her upcoming engagements are the premiere of the program Embrujo, dedicated to Spanish music, with the Nostrum Mare Camerata, her participation in the Chulilla Festival: The course of art, and her debut in Manuel de Falla's La Atlántida, under the direction of Kent Nagano, alongside Núria Rial, Maite Beaumont and José Antonio López, in collaboration between the National Choir of Spain and Barcelona Ars Nova (National Music Auditorium of Madrid and L'Auditori de Barcelona, autumn of 2026).

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