{"id":27,"date":"2024-02-04T14:06:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinacuestasoprano.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:37:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marinacuestasoprano.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"27\" class=\"elementor elementor-27\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-334094de e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"334094de\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-148a244 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"148a244\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3018fa33 animated-fast elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3018fa33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 08-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Biography<\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-485b6f18 animated-fast elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"485b6f18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:200}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Get to know me<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66eca13f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"66eca13f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dcce3a7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3dcce3a7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69b26344 animated-fast e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"69b26344\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;animation_delay&quot;:200,&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e146e2c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7e146e2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 08-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">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 \u00f3pera (Aria: Crazy for Opera), broadcast on La 1 of RTVE, reaching the finals.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">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.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">A student of Professor Gloria Fabuel, she completed her undergraduate studies in performance at the Joaqu\u00edn 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&#039;s degree in Operatic Performance at the same institution, finishing in 2024.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">He has perfected his skills with singers, repertoire teachers and orchestra conductors such as Nicola Beller, Aquiles Machado, Mar\u00eda Katzarava, Adri\u00e0 Gr\u00e0cia, Aurelio Viribay, Nauzet Mederos, Pablo Garc\u00eda-Berlanga, La\u00efla Barnat, Rub\u00e9n S\u00e1nchez-Vieco, Ernesto Palacio, Ana Luisa Chova, Daniel Gil de Tejada, Giulio Zappa, Crist\u00f3bal Soler, Ofelia Sala and Patricia Llorens, among others.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">She has participated in several operatic productions: L&#039;enfant et les sortil\u00e8ges (The Fire, the Princess and the Nightingale), Cos\u00ec fan tutte (Despina), Die Zauberfl\u00f6te (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 M\u00fasica 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&#039;s Ninth Symphony in Valencia in 2023 with Crist\u00f3bal 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 \u201cCity of Logro\u00f1o\u201d Competition (2023). She was also among the fifteen finalists in the auditions for the Paris Opera Academy.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">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 &quot;S\u00f3lo NMC&quot; 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.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Her repertoire includes characters such as Adina (L&#039;elisir d&#039;amore), Giulietta (I Capuleti ei Montecchi), Serpina (La serva padrona) and Marie (La fille du r\u00e9giment); sacred and symphonic works such as Handel&#039;s Messiah, Mozart&#039;s Requiem, JS Bach&#039;s Cantata 202 \u201cWeichet nur, betr\u00fcbte Schatten\u201d and Beethoven&#039;s Ninth Symphony; as well as various cycles of concert song and lied.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">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&#039;s La Atl\u00e1ntida, under the direction 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