Soprano of Bolivian-Albanian origins, raised in Germany, an established interpreter of the Italian and French repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Soprano of Bolivian-Albanian origins, raised in Germany, an established interpreter of the Italian and French repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Carolina López Moreno has established herself on the international opera scene as one of the most exciting voices of her generation, distinguishing herself for her interpretative intensity and technical solidity in tackling the lyric and verismo repertoire. The soprano, of Bolivian-Albanian origins and trained in Germany, has received recognition in both major international competitions and from Europe's most prestigious operatic institutions.
Her operatic debut took place in 2021 in the role of Liù in Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, a performance that launched a career focused on the Italian repertoire, with particular attention to Puccini's operas. Since then, López Moreno has performed Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Mimì ne La Boheme, Magda ne The swallow and the title role in Sister Angelica, performing in theaters such as the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and the Royal Opera House in London. In December 2024, her London debut in the role of Magda in The swallow, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano, has attracted widespread critical acclaim, with Seen and Heard International who described his performance as that of “a rising star”.
In the Verdi repertoire, López Moreno tackled Violetta Valéry in The Traviata, Leonora The Troubadour — the latter directed by Zubin Mehta at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and on tour in Ljubljana — and Alice Ford in Falstaff. He also played the title role in Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, under the direction of Christopher Franklin, and Santuzza in Rustic cavalry by Pietro Mascagni, performed in the original version at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock. His interpretations of the French repertoire include Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach and Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc.
López Moreno has collaborated with internationally renowned conductors, including Sir Antonio Pappano, Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti, Thomas Hengelbrock, Francesco Lanzillotta, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, and Christopher Franklin. His collaborations with theaters and opera houses include, in addition to those already mentioned, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Baden-Baden Festival, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Opera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The 2024–2025 season sees her engaged in numerous important productions: the season opening of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo with Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninov and clowns by Ruggero Leoncavallo; The Traviata at the New National Theatre in Tokyo and at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; La Boheme at the Baden-Baden Festival, at the Rome Opera House and at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Turandot at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona; Falstaff at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Dialogues des Carmélites at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia; Don Giovanni in Las Palmas; The Marriage of Figaro at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Iphigenie en Tauride at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg; And A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms at the Rome Opera House.
The soprano has received numerous international awards. In 2019, she won the Gerda Lissner Foundation Prize and the New York District Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the 2018–2019 season. She won first prize at the eighth Elizabeth Connell Prize International Singing Competition and the eighteenth Marie Kraja International Festival of Opera Singers at the National Opera House in Tirana. In 2021, she received the Rapallo Opera Festival Award at the seventh Portofino Opera Competition and was a finalist at the fifty-eighth Viñas International Tenor Singing Competition at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. In 2018, she received a special award on the German television program SWR Young Opera Stars.
Carolina López Moreno graduated with honors from the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, where she subsequently completed her Master's in Opera under the guidance of Professor Ulrike Sonntag and tenor Francisco Araiza. She continued her training at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Since 2020, she has been perfecting her vocal technique following the DaltroCanto method with soprano Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi.
His discography includes the CD The beautiful dream (2018), published by ARS Production, containing arias by Gustave Charpentier, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Gounod, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Benjamin Britten, André Previn, Franz Lehár and Robert Stolz, recorded with pianist Doriana Tchakarova. In 2023 he released the recording of Rustic cavalry in her original version, playing Santuzza with the Balthasar-Neumann Choir and Orchestra conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock.

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