Mezzosoprano from Bogota, she graduated from the Conservatory of the National University of Colombia and continued her training in Europe at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, the Centro de Perfeccionamiento del Palau de Les Arts in Valencia and the Academy of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
In 2017, she won the first prize at the "Ciudad de Bogotá" Lyric Singing Competition organized by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá; in 2019, she won the first prize at the "Mirna Lacambra" Competition in Sabadell, Spain and, the following year, the audience award at the "Concorso lirico internazionale di Portofino", winning also the first place at the Virtual Opera Singing Competition "Fiorenza Cedolins" (2021). More recently, she won the second prize at the International Opera Competition "Ciudad de Albacete", at the "Compostela Lírica" and was a finalist at the International Singing Competition "Alfredo Kraus" (2023).
In the symphonic repertoire, she has performed Igor Stravinsky's Les noces, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 op. 125, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "The Resurrection", Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata and J. S. Bach's Mass in B minor, to name but a few.
Her recent and upcoming opera engagements include: La rondine (Suzy) at the Teatro alla Scala with Riccardo Chailly; Norma (Adalgisa) at the Teatro de la Maestranza with Yves Abel and Nicola Berloffa, in Granada with Carlos Aragón and in Sweden; La Cenerentola (Angelina) at the Bonn Opera with Ruben Dubrovsky and Leo Muscato and, in a reduced version, at the Teatro alla Scala with Pietro Mianiti; La gazzetta (Madama la Rose) at the Rossini Opera Festival with Mº Carlo Rizzi; Unendlicher Falstaff (Meg) at the Lausitz Festival in Germany with Daniele Abbado. In Spain she has also recently debuted the roles of Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Teatro Romea and the Rioja Forum, and La Ciesca (Trittico) at the Teatro López de Ayala, with Mº Álvaro Albiach.
In the symphonic repertoire, we remember Rossini's Messa di Gloria in collaboration with the Rossini Opera Festival, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with I Solisti Veneti and Giuliano Carella, Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 with Jürgen Wolf and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Wiener Akademie Orchestra and Martin Haselböck, both at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogotá.
In the zarzuela repertoire she also performed La malquerida (Benita) at the Palau de Les Arts with Mº Santiago Serrate and Emilio López.
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2021-2022 Performances
LA CENERENTOLA 7 November 2021 Theater Bonn 18 November 2021 Theater Bonn 27 November 2021 Theater Bonn 05 December 2021 Theater Bonn 10 December 2021 Theater Bonn 29 December 2021 Theater Bonn 31 December 2021 Theater Bonn 06 January 2022 Theater Bonn 15 January 2022 Theater Bonn 23 January 2022 Theater Bonn 05 February 2022 Theater Bonn 19 February 2022 Theater Bonn
CONCERT ORLANDO: HÄNDEL VS. VIVALDI 15 November 2021 Teatro Mayor, Festival Internacional de Música Clásica de Bogotá NORMA 12 March 2022 Teatro Medina Elvira, Atarfe
LA GAZZETTA 10 August 2022 Teatro Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro 13 August 2022 Teatro Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro 15 August 2022 Teatro Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro 18 August 2022 Teatro Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro
ROSSINIMANIA 19 August 2022 Teatro Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro
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"For her part, Ainhoa Arteta as Alice was a display of stage charisma and, moreover, vocally she was generous with a voice that fulfilled all the technical demands, thus showing great versatility". César Rus (Ópera Actual)
"Ainhoa Arteta excelled in colour, warmth, projection, phrasing and self-confidence." Daniel Martínez Babiloni (Bachtrack)
"The theatrical dynamics worked perfectly, not only thanks to Martone, but also to the acting talents of all the soloists, among whom Ainhoa Arteta's Alice Ford stood out, showing tremendous involvement in her work. The Basque soprano deserved the podium for her musicality, for her beautiful voice at the service of the opera, well placed, well timbred, for her excellent singing line and construction of phrases, which make her one of the most complete tiples on the scene today. She sang like one of the greats...". Jacobo Ríos-Capé Carpi (Valencia Plaza)