Bio
The Spanish soprano Belén Vaquero was awarded by the Asociación de Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña in 2024 for her participation in masterclasses led by Carlos Álvarez, during which she also performed a solo recital within the cycle. She received the AAOM Prize 2023 from the Asociación Amigos de la Ópera de Madrid, offering a solo recital as part of the Ciclo de Jóvenes Cantantes. She is also a winner of the Sello FestClásica 2025, awarded by the Asociación Española de Festivales de Música Clásica together with Pérgamo Ensemble. In the competition organized by the Semana de Música Antigua de Estella–Lizarra, she won the SMADE Promise Prize 2022. That same year, she made her solo debut in New Orleans with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Pedro Memelsdorff, supported by the Williams Research Center and Acción Cultural Española through its Mobility Program.
She received the Fundación Victoria de los Ángeles Scholarship in 2017, awarded to promising young singers, and in the same year was granted a scholarship by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, taking part in masterclasses with artists such as Vivica Genaux and Sophie Daneman. She has also participated in masterclasses with renowned figures including Ermonela Jaho, Katia Ricciarelli, Kamal Khan, and Carlos Álvarez, among others.
She has worked with conductors such as José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Eduardo López Banzo (National Music Prize 2004), and Marc Korovitch. She has performed with ensembles including the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the RTVE Choir, Al Ayre Español, Concerto 1700, and Mala Punica.
She has performed in renowned venues such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Teatro Victoria Eugenia, Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Teatro del Museo del Prado, and Teatro Colón de A Coruña.
She has also appeared at major international festivals including La Cité Bleue Genève, Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi, Actus Humanus, KlangVokal Musikfestival, Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Temporada Lírica de A Coruña, Festival Internacional de Música de Santander, Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro, Música Antigua Aranjuez, Otoño Musical Soriano, and Festival Jordi Savall.
Her opera repertoire includes roles such as Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Suzel in Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz, Miss Jessel in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, and Yniold in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Angelica in Suor Angelica and Mimì in La Bohème by Puccini.
In the oratorio repertoire, she has been a soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the RTVE Choir; Brahms’s German Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang; Dvořák’s Stabat Mater; Bach’s St Matthew Passion; Handel’s Messiah; and as Teodosia in A. Scarlatti’s Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia. She continues to expand her repertoire and refine her technique at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid under the guidance of Juan Lomba and Duncan Gifford.