LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

Elena Sancho Pereg

Elena Sancho Pereg studied singing at the Royal Superior School of Singing in Madrid with Ramón Regidor and Jorge Robaina. She later received a scholarship from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she completed a Postgraduate in Vocal Studies and a Master's in Opera. In the critics' polls of "Welt" and "Opernwelt," she was named Young Singer of the Year 2015, and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded her the Sponsorship Prize in 2015; that same year, she was nominated for the FAUST Prize. She has won awards in competitions such as Ciudad de Logroño, Julián Gayarre, Francisco Viñas, Anselmo Colzani, Luis Mariano, among others.

The Spanish soprano has been part of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 2014/15, where she made her debut as Zerbinetta ("Ariadne auf Naxos" by R. Strauss). Other roles that followed include Gilda (Verdi “Rigoletto”), Oscar (Verdi “Un ballo in maschera”), Sophie (Massenet “Werther”), Fiakermilli (R. Strauss “Arabella”), Norina (Donizetti “Don Pasquale”), Clorinda (Rossini “La Cenerentola”), and Fradl (Weinberg “Masel Tov!”). Her repertoire includes roles such as Marie (Donizetti "La fille du régiment"), Musetta (Puccini "La Bohème"), Lisa (Bellini "La sonnambula"), Donna Anna and Zerlina (Mozart "Don Giovanni"), Morgana (Handel "Alcina"), Waldvogel (Wagner “Siegfried”), Susanna (Mozart “Le nozze di Figaro”), and Olympia/Stella (Offenbach “Les contes d'Hoffmann"), Eurydice (Offenbach "Orphée aux enfers"), Adina (Donizetti "L'elisir d'amore"), and Sophie (R. Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier").

Her guest engagements have taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, and the Opera de Oviedo, as well as to Aalto Music Theatre in Essen, Teatro Real in Madrid, and among others, to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. She also performed at the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival and the Munich Opera Festival.

Juan Antonio Sanabria

A tenor born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, holds a degree in Vocal Pedagogy and a Master's degree in Performing Arts. Despite his solid academic training, having been a student of María Orán, he is currently continuing his training with the tenor Juan Lomba and the repertoire pianist Elena de Miguel, with whom he prepares his artistic endeavours.

He has won the María Orán Prize and awards at national and international competitions, including the Jacinto Guerrero Opera Singing Competition, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Opera Singing Competition in France.

Since his debut in 2006, Sanabria's versatility in adapting to different repertoires has

provided him with a remarkable background, allowing him to tackle operatic repertoire, symphonic repertoire, oratorio and concert pieces, specifically from the 18th century to the present day. In the operatic arena, he has performed operas by Mozart (Cosí fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the opera house in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Haydn (Armida, on tour in different French cities, such as Clermont-Ferrand and Reims, Lo speziale, at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville), Martín y Soler (Il tutore burlato) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Rossini (The Barber of Seville and La scala di seta), at the Theatre des Champs Elysèes in Paris, Donizetti (L'elisir d'amore, at the Teatre Principal de Palma in Mallorca, Lucia di Lammermoor, at the ABAO Bilbao Opera, Bellini (La sonnambula, at the ABAO Bilbao Opera), Puccini (Turandot, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the National Opera of Lithuania), among others. He has also performed operatic titles at their world premieres, such as the opera Tenorio, by Tomás Marco and the opera Fuenteovejuna, by Jorge Muñiz.

In terms of the Symphonic and Oratorio repertoire, he has performed works by Bach (Magnificat, The Passion according to St. Matthew, The Passion according to St. John and Mass in B minor), works by Handel (The Messiah, Alexander's Feast, Dixit Dominus), Mozart (Requiem, Great Mass in C major, Coronation Mass and Davide Penitente), Beethoven (Choral Fantasy, Symphony No. 9 in D major), Rossini (Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle), Berlioz (The Childhood of Christ), Bruckner (Mass in F minor), Schubert (Masses 1, 2 and 5) and Dvorák (Stabat Mater), among others.

All this has led him to sing in prestigious auditoriums and concert halls throughout Spain, such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, Teatro Monumental de Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo, Kursaal in San Sebastián, Auditorio Baluarte in Pamplona, among others, and work with leading orchestras such as the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta y Coro de RTVE, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Real Filarmonía de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Basque National Orchestra, and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, among others.

He has been conducted by great names like Juanjo Mena, Carlos Mena, Andrea Marcon, Carlos Kalmar, Bruno Campanella, Marco Armiliato, Miguel Roa, Jesús López-Cobos, Nicola Luisotti, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Antoni Ros-Marbà, and Günter Neuhold, among others.

Recent and forthcoming performances include Rachmaninoff's opera The Miserly Knight at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the opera Tenorio at the Teatro Real, Tristan und Isolde, Dir Entführung aus del Serail, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, in Bilbao and Burgos, Carmina Burana, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Extremadura and the OCRTVEJu, as well as other symphonic concerts in different Spanish cities.

Valeriano Lanchas, bass-baritone

Bogotá, 1976. Valeriano Lanchas made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2015 as Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, later returning as Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro and again in The Barber of Seville.

He studied at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and in New York with Armen Boyajian.  He won the Operalia 2001, Pavarotti Competition 1995 and Toti dal Monte 2004, among other awards. At the invitation of Plácido Domingo, he joined he Washington jNational Opera's youth programme.

He has sung in operas in Washington, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Dallas, Montpellier, Treviso, Bielefeld, Bogotá, Santiago, Teatro Real de Madrid, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, ABAO, Gran Teatre del Liceu and Teatro de la Zarzuela, among many others.

He has sung alongside Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons, Martha Senn, Samuel Ramey, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kauffmann and Lise Davidsen, among many others.

He has been conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Leonard Slatkin, Josep Pons and Christophe Rousset, among others.

On stage he has been directed by Tito Capobianco, Frank Corsaro, Kasper Holten, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Lluis Pasqual and Paco Azorín, among others. .

He has recorded Mahler's 8th Symphony (EMI), Verdi's Requiem (MTM) and the role of Pistola in Falstaff (Belair classiques), among others.

This season he is returning to the Liceu to sing Un ballo in maschera and to the Teatro Real in Madrid to sing Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Zoltan Nagy

Transylvanian Bassbaritone Zoltan Nagy started his international career in 2008 as the youngest member of the Vienna State Opera‘s solist ensemble.

Since 2011 he has been a freelance artist working in some of the worlds major opera houses and concert venues such as The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Theater an der Wien, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Hamburg State Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Leipzig, Opera de Nice, Vlaamse Opera, Onassio Athens, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro Regio di Parma, Xi’an Grand Opera among others…

Further collaborations brought him to Singapore Symphony, RTE Dublin, Robert Schumann Philharmonie, RSO Vienna, Wiener Symphoniker, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Esssener Philharmoniker, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

The artists first CD has been released by Suphraphon in 2016 in a live recording of the Essener Philharmoniker under the baton of Tomas Netopil, portraying the role of Theseus in Martinu‘s Ariane.

Zoltan Nagy made his debut in Spain as Escamillo in ABAO Bilbao, role that he has sang in over 16 productions worldwide.

He made a succesful debut in Oviedo (Teatro Campoamor) in both Siegfried and Götterdämmerung as Alberich, role that he succesfully portrayed in Switzerland as well last saison.

Zoltan‘s repertoire includes Mozart‘s Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Dulcamara (Elisir d‘amore), Marcello/Schaunard (La Bohème), Count Tomski (Pique Dame), Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Amonasro (Aida), Alberich (Rheingold, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) among others.

Zoltan Nagy completed his studies at the Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in his hometown in Cluj Napoca under the guidance of Prof. Gheorghe Rosu. In 2007 he obtained a scholarship for masters degree at Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg by Prof. Boris Bakow.

Zoltan is the world famous soprano, Virgina Zeani‘s last pupil. 

He sung under the baton of Ivor Bolton, Fabio Luisi, Marco Armiliato, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Renato Palumbo, Guillermo Garcia-Calvo, Alejo Perez, Andres Orozco Estrada, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Franklin, Pinchas Steinberg, Leo Hussain, Kevin John Edusei among others.

Maria Soler

Born on 17th October 2000 in Andorra, started playing the piano at the age of 7 at the Escola Harmonia with Roser Palomero and started singing at the age of 10 with Caterine Metayer at the Petits Cantors d'Andorra. She was selected for the A Nau Voix festival in La Baule (France) in 2015 and 2016 in the Young Talents category and also participated, in the choir, in the Andorra Lírica operas from 2016 to 2017.

In 2018 she began studying a degree in Geophysics at the University of Paris and was admitted to the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur, where she was trained by Pierre Kuzor and Thomas Palmer. To date, she has participated in projects such as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, in the role of Dido, Berio's Folk Songs conducted by Olivier Kaspar and Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie in the roles of Diane and Phèdre.

In March 2024, she performed the main role of Orfeo in the opera Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck at the Théâtre de la Liberté in Saint-Maur les Fossés. She won the ‘Orgues i Ponent’ award at the Balaguer International Singing Contest, presided over by Marta Mateu, Mireia Pintó, Pedro Pardo and Albert Castells, casting coordinator of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

In 2021 she sang with the tenor Josep Carreras in a charity concert for the Josep Carreras Association at the Palau de Congressos in Andorra la Vella, as well as at the Josep Carreras Auditorium in Vila-seca (Tarragona) in 2022 and the centenary concert in S'Agaró on 20th July 2024. She performed at the America's Cup closing ceremony, held at Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, together with Josep Carreras and Sara Baras.

She has participated in concerts with the Orquestra Nacional Clàssica d'Andorra (ONCA), including the Concert de la Constitució Andorrana 2023 at the Palau de Congressos and the Concert per la Pau in September 2023. She is currently studying under Chantal Mathias at the Paris Conservatory, while also honing her skills with Karine Deshayes and Delphine Haidan.  

She will soon be performing in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, a production staged by Mariame Clément, as well as playing the role of Siebel in Gounod's Faust.

Soon-Wook Ka

Born on October 1987, in South Korea, Soon-Wook Ka is a distinguished opera tenor whose musical journey began at Chungnam Arts High School. He further honed his craft by earning a Bachelor of Music from Yonsei University under the guidance of esteemed professors Chulmin Im, Junghyun Kim, and Jaeho Sin. His pursuit of excellence led him to the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (2014–2017), where he studied with Professor Thomas Piffka.

Recognized early for his talent, Soon-Wook Ka received prestigious scholarships—including the Theater Aachen Stipendium and the Richard Wagner Stipendienstiftung during 2016–2017—which underscored his potential in the operatic realm. In 2024, his artistry was further affirmed when he secured 1st Prize at the Grandi Voci competition in Salzburg.

Soon-Wook Ka’s stage career is notably extensive, with a series of critically acclaimed roles at Theater Aachen, Theater Bonn, as well as performances at distinguished venues including Theater Regensburg, Theater Zabrücken, and La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium. His operatic repertoire spans from contemporary works such as Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (in which he portrayed the Beadle) to classic roles like Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, Rodolfo in Verdi’s Stiffelio, Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya Dama, Pang in Puccini’s Turandot. He has also taken on the leading roles in Massenet’s Werther and Verdi’s Macbeth, further showcasing his versatility and dramatic intensity. His range is further evidenced by his performances in productions ranging from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea to Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

In addition to opera, he has captivated audiences in concert settings—from charity events to gala performances—featuring in works like Mozart’s Requiem, and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Residing in Aachen, Germany, Soon-Wook Ka continues to impress both critics and audiences with his expressive vocal artistry and dynamic stage presence, establishing himself as a rising talent on the international opera scene