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Mar Morán

The soprano from Extremadura, born in Badajoz, began her musical studies in the specialty of recorder. Her vocal training began when she join the Professional Conservatory of Music Victoria de los Ángeles (Madrid) where she finished her studies obtaining the End of Grade Prize and the Extraordinary Prize of Music of the Community of Madrid in the specialty of Singing, under the tutelage of Elena Valdelomar. She finished her higher studies at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid with honors and with the Lola Rodríguez de Aragón 2020 End of Career Award. She has been awarded a scholarship by the IOA (International Opera Academy) of Ghent in the program for young talents to participate in the Opera Studio program. She has received one of the scholarships awarded by Juventudes Musicales to study abroad, as well as a scholarship from the association Amigos de la Ópera de Madrid.

She has received masterclasses from Mariella Devia, Deborah Polaski, Eva Marton, Isabel Rey, Plácido Domingo, David Mason, Charlotte Margiono, Martin Wölfel, Dietrich Henschel, Giulio Zappa, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Nicola Beller Carbone, among many others.

In November 2020 she made her debut with the role of Kate Pinkerton in the opera Madame Butterfly by Puccini at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo. In this same theater she also made her debuts as Queen of the night in Mozart's The Magic Flute (2021) and the leading role of Violetta Válery in the famous opera La Traviata by Verdi (2023). She has also performed other leading roles such as Sor Constance of Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc (2025), Gilda of Rigoletto (2022), La Princesa in Gato con botas by Montsalvatge (2021) or the role of Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (2023). In the Zarzuela genre, she has stood out for her role as Clarita in Pablo Sorozábal's La del Manojo de Rosas with the Sociedad Filarmónica de Badajoz at the Teatro López de Ayala and with the Asociación A+Música at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

Mar has performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Rossini in Pesaro (Italy), Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (Vilnius-Lithuania), Vlaamse Opera Theatre (Ghent - Belgium), Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Auditorio Baluarte in Pamplona, Kursaal in Donosti, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Palacio de Festivales in Santander, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, Teatro Principal in Santiago de Compostela, Teatro Principal in Burgos or Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela.

In the Concert Song format, she has given countless recitals throughout Spain, being of great importance his participation in national and international festivals such as the International Music Festival of Mendigorría (Navarra), the International Music Festival of Gaia (Portugal) and MUSEG - Musical Festival of Segovia. She has also collaborated with the Olivar de Castillejo Foundation.

Mar Morán has received numerous awards in various prestigious national and international competitions such as the Concorso Internazionale Lírico Tebaldi Gigli Corelli in Pesaro (Italy), the International Competition “Virgilijus Noreika for Singers” in Vilnius (Lithuania) or the Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lírico “Giulio Neri” in Siena (Italy).

Her recording debut came with his album Luna Clara, together with pianist Aurelio Viribay, backed by the American record label Odradek Records, which includes a collection of songs by the Navarrese composer Jesús García Leoz. This album has been awarded the Melómano de Oro Prize by the prestigious Melómano 2021 Magazine, as well as being a finalist in the MIN 2022 Awards and in the +Músicas 2022 Awards.

Luna muerta digital cover

Continuing with this “lunar binomial”, Mar Morán and the pianist Aurelio Viribay collaborate again in a new album, where they rescue the 29 songs of the Valencian composer Manuel Palau (1893 - 1967), under the title of Luna Muerta and sealed by the Spanish record label Cezanne Produciones. As for the music, Manuel Palau, occupies a place of special relevance in the evolution of the Spanish concert song throughout the first two thirds of the twentieth century, for its exceptional quality and originality in the extensive production for voice and piano.

Learn more about this lunar binomial in www.historiasdeunaluna.es

Mar Morán's latest collaboration in the recording field comes from the Galician pianist and composer Borja Mariño. This new CD entitled Mientras se borra el mundo, again with the label Cezanne Producciones, is a very interesting sample of his contribution to the Spanish song. This album has been awarded with the prestigious Sello de Oro de Ópera Actual 2024 and the Melómano de Oro 2024 award.

AWARDS

PRESS

A convincing Traviata “Mar Morán faced at the last minute a Violetta that seemed to be made for her. In the vocal aspect, her clear facility for coloratura and treble was outstanding, which allowed her to move comfortably in the moments of greatest virtuosity, which she also endowed with a suggestive warmth”.

Scherzo ↗

A convincing Traviata “Mar Morán faced at the last minute a Violetta that seemed to be made for her. In the vocal aspect, her clear facility for coloratura and treble was outstanding, which allowed her to move comfortably in the moments of greatest virtuosity, which she also endowed with a suggestive warmth”.

Platea Magazine ↗

A convincing Traviata “Mar Morán faced at the last minute a Violetta that seemed to be made for her. In the vocal aspect, her clear facility for coloratura and treble was outstanding, which allowed her to move comfortably in the moments of greatest virtuosity, which she also endowed with a suggestive warmth”.

Diario Vasco ↗

“The soprano who defeated the scenography. [...] Morán, who had already been Violetta at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, demonstrated that not only the music, but also the interpretation, transmits the feelings of the characters in opera”.

Diario de Navarra ↗

Violetta exciting... “Mar Morán starred as a high-flying Violetta. Her light lyric voice possesses, besides a natural musicality, an intense color in the central register...”

El comercio ↗

Traviatta' ideal for debutants: “Mar Morán drew with intelligence the complete arc through which a character who demands everything and who will surely have a long career”.

Ópera Actual ↗

“The cast from Extremadura was superb. Mar Morán plays a mischievous and jocose Frasquita, with accurate control in the attack, a masterful timbre, her usual security in the projection, brilliance in the treble and opulence of means”.

Entretantomagazine ↗

“Mar Morán's Frasquita was stupendous, with brilliant trebles that imposed themselves on all the ensembles at the end of the third act”.

Scherzo ↗

Melomano de Oro - “Mar Morán offers a very powerful treble range, she masters recitative singing and moves very well alternating forte singing with delicate piano-pianissimo notes concluded with beautiful sfumature effects”. (Diego Manuel Garcia)

Melomano ↗

Mar Morán and Alejandro del Cerro sing “La Traviatta” in Burgos

Platea Magazine ↗

Interview with soprano Mar Morán

Granada Costa Nacional ↗

“Mar Morán's voice, a singer of more than interesting profiles, with her eminently lyrical timbre reinforced by an abundant volume.”

Scherzo ↗

“A new album compiles five of the Galician composer's major song cycles with the voices of soprano Mar Morán, baritone Gabriel Alonso and Aurelio Viribay on piano.”

TLM ↗

“This CD is, therefore, a very interesting sample of his contribution to the Spanish song” (SELLO DE ORO).

Ópera Actual ↗

“Mar Morán triumphed in the role of the landowner Don Camilo, with some of the most beautiful and complicated arias of the entire work. She possesses a voice of beautiful color, served with great musicality and careful technique...”

Ritmo ↗

“Mirrored lyric-light voice with very polished flesh and brass and good singing artistry. She exposed and said with panache her not easy part...”

Beckmesser ↗

“Morán's beautiful voice, with its broad and powerful expression, leaves an impression on the listener...”

Melómano digital↗

“Mar Morán exhibits a beautiful singing line, transparent diction and secure vocal technique, applying regulators that give life to an extraordinarily effective phrasing”.

Ópera Actual↗

“Mar Morán, third prize in the Tebaldi-Gigli-Corelli International Lyric Competition”.

Mundo Clasico ↗

“Spanish soprano Mar Morán, third prize in the International Lyric Competition Tebaldi-Gigli-Corelli”.

Brio Clásica ↗

“Mar Morán, third prize in the Tebaldi-Gigli-Corelli Competition”.

Ópera Actual ↗

“Extremaduran soprano Mar Morán wins third place in the first edition of the Tebaldi Gigli Corelli Lyric Competition”.

Platea Magazinel ↗

“Mar Morán and Aurelio Viribay delight the audience at the Ateneo de Sevilla”.

Ateneo de Sevilla ↗

Mar Morán: “Singing Spanish music is a gift for the soul”.

Melómano Digital ↗

“Wonderful soloists“ ‘Gustav Mahler's glorious ’Resurrection” symphony at the Calderón”.

El nostre Ciutat - Alcoy ↗

“All were adequate and especially the soprano from Extremadura Mar Morán deserves a follow-up, as it seems to me that she can go far.” (Tomás Marco)

Scherzo ↗

“Mar Morán has a lyric-light soprano voice with a beautiful timbre and great musicality...”.

Ritmo ↗

“...a radiant voice, which is brilliantly operatic when the occasion calls for it, but knows how to withdraw into intimacy with delicacy, always with insinuating expressive intention in nuances and accents. Superb...

El diario de Sevilla ↗

“Mar Moran selected by Mariella Devia to star in inclusive lyric recital”.

Toda la música ↗

“Mar Morán belongs to a young generation of Spanish singers who are successfully pursuing careers in both opera and chamber music.”

Sourangelica live journal ↗

“The soprano from Extremadura has plenty of faculties, with that powerful fiato, and she goes through the measures of the aria in andantino with the fleshiness of a sedimented voice forged over a slow fire that moves by distilling the different timbre colors” (Paco Collado).

elgabinetedekaligari ↗

Mar Morán inaugurates the statue “Heroes” dedicated to the sanitary workers in Badajoz.

HOY ↗

“The soprano from Extremadura, Mar Morán, receives the Speciale Donizzetti award”

Entretantomagazine ↗

“The lyric has its own name and in Extremadura it is called Mar Morán”.

Muévete - Canal Extremadura ↗

“The Competition awarded its second prize to fellow soprano Mar Morán.”

Ópera Actual ↗

“Originally from Badajoz Mar Morán will also join the award to three others received this year.”

La voz de Galicia ↗

írica extremeña”. Mar Morán and José Luis Pérez will perform the absolute and presentation of Juan Vázquez. Lyrical Remembrances II of the composer Albert Alcaraz inside the FIMVAE.

Instituto Extremeño de canto y dirección coral ↗

Mar Morán premieres the “Juan Vázquez. Remembranzas líricas II” by Albert Alcaraz, dedicated to four singing teachers.

Platea magazine ↗

“The best singing triumphs in the Certamen Pedro Bote”.

Beckmesser ↗

Mar Morán wins the Pedro Bote Competition

Doce notas ↗

“Necessary García Leoz” - Pablo Siena's review of Luna Clara.

La música en Siana ↗

“Melómano de oro Award for the CD Luna Clara”.

Melómano Digital ↗

“Mar Machado, from Extremadura, wins the Habanera contest for lyric soloists”.

El diario ↗

Soprano Mar Machado Morán wins the 9th International Habanera Contest for lyric soloists

TV Torrevieja ↗

“It has always been my dream to come back as a soloist, with another tour, and I have been able to fulfill it.”

EFE comunica ↗

“María del Mar Machado...standing out for her careful technique and facility for the high register and coloratura.”

Ópera Actual ↗

“Mar Morán, first international singing award for Badajoz”.

Canal Extremadura ↗

“Mar Morán won the IV Martín i Soler Singing Competition”.

Ópera Actual ↗

“Soprano Mar Morán wins the IV Martín i Soler Singing Competition”.

Platea Magazine ↗

Soprano Mar Morán presents 'Luna clara'

RNE ↗

“Mar Moran's voice, velvety and warm, with round bass and a clear high register, envelops the listener with its sonority and is perfectly suited to this music.”

Revista Indie ↗

“García Leoz's songs are very reminiscent of Turina”.

Diario de Sevilla ↗

“We will receive the young soprano Mar Morán, who has just released an album in the company of Aurelio Viribay, with the integral of songs by Jesús García Leoz”.

RNE ↗

“Soprano Mar Morán dedicates her recording debut to the songs of Jesús García Leoz, with Aurelio Viribay at the piano.”

Platea Magazine ↗

“Soprano Mar Morán and pianist Aurelio Viribay record the integral of songs by García Leoz”.

Beckmesser ↗

“Soprano Mar Morán and pianist Aurelio Viribay record the integral of songs by García Leoz”.

Ritmo ↗

Interview with Mar Morán: “The adrenaline of live performance does not exist in a recording studio”.

Opera World ↗

"La soprano pacense Mar Morán, ganadora del IV concurso de Canto Martín i Soler”

Entretantomagazine ↗

“...Mar Morán (Kate Pinkerton) contributed high quality in their respective roles.”

Opera Actual ↗

“Mar Morán, Lola Rodríguez de Aragón Award”.

Melomano ↗

“Soprano Mar Morán, Lola Rodríguez de Aragón 2020 Award, from the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid.”

Platea Magazine ↗

“Badajoz soprano Mar Morán was selected in 2019 to train at the Opera Studio of the International Opera Academy (IOA) of Ghent in Belgium.”

Diario Lírico ↗