Lucía Iglesias

Lucía Iglesias is one of the most promising young Spanish sopranos of her generation. She made her professional debut in 2019 with Rossini's La Cenerentola in the Òpera a Catalunya circuit, beginning a steadily ascending career that has taken her to prominent stages in Spain and Italy, including Madrid's Teatro Real, the Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto, the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, the Auditorio de Galicia, the Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña, as well as Barcelona's Teatre Romea, among others. Her most notable roles include Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Nannetta (Falstaff), Sophie (Werther), Musetta (La Bohème), and Clorinda (La Cenerentola), characters for which she has been praised for her supple, luminous voice, her stage charisma, and her refined theatrical sensibility.

Following her ABAO Bilbao debut in January 2026 in the role of Sophie in Jules Massenet's Werther, Iglesias will make her role debut as Venus, the leading role of La Púrpura de la Rosa by Torrejón y Velasco, at the Teatro Segura in Lima. In the coming 26/27 season she will take on multiple Mozart roles, with notable house debuts at the Teatro Real de Madrid and the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona in two new productions. She has collaborated with conductors such as Carlo Montanaro, Víctor Pablo Pérez, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Giuseppe Finzi, Diego Martin-Etxebarria, Vittorio Parisi, and Daniel Gil de Tejada, and with stage directors including Graham Vick, Rosetta Cucchi, Anna Ponces, Renato Bonajuto, Daniele Piscopo, Gabriella Ravazzi, and Miquel Gorriz.

During her years with the Children's and Youth Choir of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, where she also performed as a soloist, she worked under conductors such as Ton Koopman, Dima Slobodeniuk, Carlos Mena, and Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez — experiences that marked the beginning of her solid musical training. She has been part of the Crescendo programme at the Teatro Real, with which she has also represented the institution at various international engagements, consolidating her versatility and artistic maturity. A prize-winner at prestigious competitions such as the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, the Clara Schumann Competition, the Concorso Spazio Musica, Compostela Lírica, Germans Pla, and the Concurso Mirna Lacambra, she has received guidance and masterclasses from sopranos of the stature of Lisette Oropesa, Mariella Devia, Saioa Hernández, Nadine Sierra, and Deborah Polaski, training principally with her teachers Daniel Muñoz and Manuel Burgueras.

In addition to her solid vocal training, Iglesias has studied piano and is a doctoral candidate in Music at the International University of La Rioja. Her calling for singing and opera awakened at the early age of eight, when she was chosen to perform a child's role in Jules Massenet's Werther during the Mozart Festival of A Coruña, under the direction of Víctor Pablo Pérez and Graham Vick — an experience that forever marked the beginning of her path in the world of opera.