We announce today soprano Carmen Solís joins our roster of artists. From GoDirect, we are deeply grateful for her confidence and we bet on her great career.
Holder of numerous awards in important competitions such as Operalia, Francisco Viñas or Manuel Ausensi, her most outstanding performances include her debut as Liú (Turandot) at the Auditori de Barcelona with the OBC; Alzira at the Euskalduna in Bilbao (ABAO); Madama Butterfly at ABAO, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile and on tour with the Fundació Ópera de Catalunya; Nedda (Pagliacci) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro di Reggio Emilia and Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, and the two main roles of Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana in the same performance at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga.
A regular soloist in leading roles at the Teatro de la Zarzuela since the 2016 season, she has stood out for her performances in Juan José, El Gato Montés, María del Pilar and La Dolores.
Her main stage appearances, always in leading roles, begin in 2009, with Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), at the Ópera de Oviedo, where she has also performed in subsequent seasons Madama Butterfly and Leonora (Il Trovatore); Il Trovatore at the Croatian National Opera; Tosca in Bilbao, Pamplona, Sabadell (and tour with Fundació Òpera de Catalunya), Teatro del Giglio in Lucca (Italy) and at the Theater of Ephesus (Izmir, Turkey); Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) at ABAO Bilbao; Fidelia (Edgar) and Anna (Le Villi) at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid.
In the field of oratorio and choral symphony, she has excelled in Verdi's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, among others, and also in the contemporary repertoire of Spanish composers: Gernika by Escudero, Las edades del Hombre by Aizpurua and La Dama del Alba by Vázquez del Fresno.
She has performed with the best orchestras and choirs in the country, such as ORTVE, Orfeón Donostiarra, ORCAM, Coro y Orquesta Nacional de España, OSPA, Oviedo Filarmonia, Sinfónica de Navarra, Sinfónica de Euskadi, Orquesta de Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunya, OEX, Sinfónica de Bilbao, Sinfónica del Vallés, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, OSCYL, etc. and under the baton of great maestros such as Plácido Domingo, Kazushi Ono, Daniel Oren, Antoni Ros-Marbá, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Ramón Tebar, Henrik Nanàsi, Juanjo Mena, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Oliver Díaz, Álvaro Albiach, etc.
In 2015 she released her first solo CD, Nana, of Spanish songs with pianist Eduardo Moreno (Brilliant Classics) and in 2019 the recording of La Seduzione, chamber songs by Giuseppe Verdi with pianist Rubén Fernández Aguirre.
Among her recent performances, her debut as Rosario in Goyescas in the Oviedo season stands out.
She will soon make her debut in Puccini's Manon Lescaut in Ópera Catalunya and the role of Salud in Falla's La vida breve with ORTVE, and is scheduled to release her third CD, with music by Albert Alcaraz for the Harmonia Mundi label.