LORENA PAZ NIETO

Award-winning Spanish soprano Lorena Paz Nieto is a previous winner of the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform award, the Ludmilla Andrews Russian Song Prize, and ‘Vocalist of the Year’ at the 2019 LUKAS awards.

Lorena’s operatic roles include Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Lisette La Rondine, Morgana Alcina, Marie La fille du régiment, Despina Così fan tutte, Musetta La Bohème, Lauretta Gianni Schicchi, Diane Orphée aux enfers, Pannochka May Night, Drusilla, Fortuna and Pallade L’incoronazione di Poppea, Amore Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Maria Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires and both Rosina and Berta Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Notable recital performances have included recitals in the Crush Room and Linbury Foyer at the Royal Opera House, Oxford Lieder Festival, Heidelberger Frühling Festival, London Song Festival, St John’s Smith Square, and recently two recitals and a masterclass on Spanish song in Japan. Recent oratorio repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Elgar’s The Kingdom, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Monteverdi’s Vespers at The Three Choirs Festival. 

Lorena has recently released her first solo CD, Cantando a dos poetas, featuring contemporary songs written by Spanish composers.

Upcoming projects include role debuts as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Clorinda in La Cenerentola for Nevill Holt Opera, Olga in Fedora and Dutchess/Bottle in Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for If Opera, as well as continuing her recital tour of Spain following the release of Cantando a dos poetas.

Lorena is an alumna of the National Opera Studio, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.