Soprano

Maria Bayo, one of the most respected singers on the international stage, has from the outset shown herself to have the vocal and psychological strength to fill the roles of the characters she plays with the greatest dramatic rigour, including a wide range of opera roles ranging from Baroque to twentieth century, with a particular inclination for Mozart, Rossini, the French school. She is particularly interested in recovering and recording unpublished pages of forgotten operas and zarzuelas, as her extensive discography shows.

Having won numerous international prizes, including the First Prize at the International Hans Gabor Belvedère Competition in Vienna, Maria Bayo debuted in Pisa, Saint Gallen and Lucerne with Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonámbula and had resounding success in Madrid. and Paris as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. Critics soon pointed to her radiant charisma, the verve and luminosity of her timbre and her clear diction as well as her stage skills.

Since then, she has regularly been invited to perform by some of the world's leading opera houses: La Scala in Milan, Staatsoper in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, La Monnaie, Covent Garden, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, festivals in Salzburg etc. to play a wide range of characters by composers as diverse as Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Puccini, Cavalli, Offenbach, Debussy, Bizet, Gounod and, particularly, Mozart: Susanna, Cherubino and Contessa - in Le Nozze di Figaro; Ilia in Idomeneo; Zerlina and Donna Anna, in Don Giovanni; Despina and Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte).

She has concentrated on a lideristico and oratory repertoire at recitals and concerts in some of the most prestigious venues in the world.
She has sung and recorded (with Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo and Teresa Berganza) much of the Spanish repertoire, and is today one of its leading representatives, as her extensive discography shows.

Among the various prizes she has won, in 2002 María Bayo was awarded the "Príncipe de Viana" prize, the most prestigious award for culture, by the Community of Navarra. The award was presented by His Royal Highness Prince Felipe de Borbón.

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