Soprano
World
Yolanda Auyanet has established herself throughout Europe as a leading interpreter of bel canto roles such as Norma and Donizetti’s Queens, and she has more recently approached challenging roles in the Verdi and Puccini repertoire, such as Tosca, which she has just premiered with great acclaims in Seville and that she will sing again at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Abigaille, which she debuted at the Capitole de Toulouse for the opening of the 2024/25 season.
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, she studied music at the conservatory of her hometown and at the Conservatorio del Liceo in Barcelona. After being awarded in several international singing competitions (3rd prize at “Francisco Vinas” competition in Barcelona and 1st prize at the International Competition of Toulouse), she has begun a successful international career that has brought her in some of the leading opera houses, working with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Michele Mariotti, Alberto Zedda, as well as with stage directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Wilson, Daniele Abbado and Damiano Michieletto.
After her debut at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari as Musetta in La bohème, Yolanda Auyanet appeared as Gilda in Rigoletto in Las Palmas and as Violetta in La traviata at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. In the following years she has enriched her repertoire with many roles, from Belcanto to Verismo: Norma (Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Teatro Real de Madrid, Teatro Massimo di Palermo), Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlo (Opéra de Marseille, Opéra Royal De Wallonie in Liège), Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito (Teatro Real de Madrid), Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte (Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro (Teatro della Maestranza de Sevilla), Donna Anna (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta) and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Adina in L’elisir d’amore (Pamplona), Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia (Las Palmas,Teatro Regio di Torino), Mathilde in Guillaume Tell (Teatro Comunale di Bologna), Giulietta in I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Las Palmas), Liù in Turandot (Teatro Real de Madrid staged by Robert Wilson and conducted by Nicola Luisotti), Micaela in Carmen (Arena di Verona staged by Franco Zeffirelli), Mimì in La bohème (Teatro Real de Madrid), the title roles in Anna Bolena (Teatro Regio in Parma), in Maria Stuarda (Ópera de Tenerife) Leonora in Il trovatore (Opéra de Toulon, Ópera de Tenerife, Opéra Royal De Wallonie), Desdemona in Otello (Las Palmas, Modena).
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Giovanna d’Arco in Tenerife; Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Maria Stuarda at Teatro Real de Madrid and at Royal Opera Copenhagen; ; Nabucco at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Roberto Devereux in Las Palmas and at Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Norma, Tosca and Roberto Devereux at Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla; Rosa del Alzafra and Pan y Toros at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid; Giovanna d’Arco at Opéra de Marseille; Don Carlos in Basel; Lucrezia Borgia in Oviedo, Budapest and Tenerife; Norma at Semperoper Dresden; Robert le diable at La Monnaie Brussels.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Suor Angelica at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Andrea Chenier at Teatro Regio di Torino; Tosca in Palma de Mallorca; Maria Stuarda in Bilbao and in Oviedo; Peter Grimes in Toulouse.
