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 on the Òpera a Catalunya circuit, initiating since then an ascending career that has led her to perform in prominent venues in Spain, Italy, and the Americas, such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Auditori Enric Granados in Lleida, Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto, Americas Society in New York, Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, Teatro Manuel Segura in Lima, Teatro Sociale di Camogli, The Foundry in Boston, Auditorio de Galicia, Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña, as well as the Teatre Romea in Barcelona, among others. Her most notable roles include Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Nannetta (Falstaff), Sophie (Werther), Musetta (La Bohème), Despina (Così fan tutte), and Clorinda (La Cenerentola), characters in which she has been praised for her supple, expressive, luminous voice, her stage charisma, and her refined theatrical sensibility.
In the 26/27 season, she will perform multiple Mozartian roles, highlighting two new productions at the Teatro Real (Madrid) and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), and her debut in the roles of Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Mrs. Coyle (Owen Wingrave). She has collaborated with conductors such as Carlo Montanaro, Víctor Pablo Pérez, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Marco Guidarini, Giuseppe Finzi, Diego Martin-Etxebarria, Vittorio Parisi, and Daniel Gil de Tejada, and with stage directors such as Graham Vick, Rosetta Cucchi, Anna Ponces, Renato Bonajuto, Daniele Piscopo, Gabriella Ravazzi, Jean Pierre Gamarra, and Miquel Gorriz.
During her time with the Children's and Youth Choir of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, in which she also performed as a soloist, she worked under the baton of masters 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 Teatro Real's Crescendo program, with which she has also represented the institution in various international engagements, consolidating her artistic versatility and maturity. Awarded in highly prestigious competitions such as the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, the Clara Schumann Competition, Concorso Spazio Musica, Compostela Lírica, Germans Pla, or the Mirna Lacambra Competition, she has received advice and masterclasses from renowned artists including Mariella Devia, Carlo Rizzi, Saioa Hernández, Lisette Oropesa, Nadine Sierra, Sir Thomas Allen, Aigul Akhmetshina, or Deborah Polaski, and has studied primarily with her teachers Daniel Muñoz and Manuel Burgueras.
In addition to her solid vocal training, Iglesias has studied piano and is currently pursuing a PhD in Music at the International University of La Rioja. Her passion for singing and opera began at eight years old, when she was chosen to perform a Gretel in Massenet's Werther during the Mozart Festival of A Coruña, under the direction of Víctor Pablo Pérez and Graham Vick — an experience that marked the beginning of her lifelong journey in the world of opera.