Tania LORENZO  Soprano
 
  BIOGRAPHY  

 

In December 2023 Tania Lorenzo debuts at the Opera House Zürich as AMOUR in Rameau’s Opera Platée.

Since the season 2021/2022 Tania Lorenzo is member of the Luzern Opera House. He she can be seen in roles like SUSANNA in “Le nozze di Figaro”, BELLEZZA in Händel’s “Il Trionfo”, LUCIA in “The Rape of Lucretia”, SOPHIE in “Der Rosenkavalier” or MORGANA in “Alcina”.

In autumn 2022 she returned to the Semperoper Dresden for the world premiere of “Chasing Waterfalls”. From 2017 until 2019 Tania Lorenzo was a member of the young ensemble here. In Dresden the young soprano enjoyed successes in such roles as the SHEPHERD in “Tannhäuser”, FRASQUITA in “Carmen”, PAPAGENA in “Die Zauberflöte”, the SANDMAN and the DEWMAN in “Hänsel und Gretel”, in the leading role SUSI in the world premiere of the opera “Das Rätsel der gestohlenen Stimmen”, the 1st VIRGIN in “Moses und Aron”, JESSI in “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” AMOUR in “PLatée”. ESMERALDA in “The Bartered Bride”, the MILLINER in “Der Rosenkavalier”, the SPIRIT in “Dido and Aeneas”, just to name a few.

Tania started her musical studies in her native country Gran Canaria with Eva Juárez and completed them at the Berlin University of Arts with Carola Höhn. Here, she inspired with her interpretation of BABETTE in the baroque production “I teatro alla moda” by I Confidenti and as MADAME SILBERKLANG in “Der Schauspieldirektor”. Tania was supported by the Mapfre Guanarteme Foundation and Jugend Musiziert Madrid.
She absolved master classes with a.o. María Orán, Brigitte Fassbaender, Nauzet Mederos, Hendrik Heilmann, John Norris, Marina León, Sonia Prina, Gerd Uecker, Deborah Polaski, Thomas Thomaschke, Michael Gehrke and Christiane Libor.

The singer is the winner of numerous prizes in Singing Competitions such as the 1st Prize of the International Singing Competition Villa de Teror ( 2020), the Zarzuela Prize of Certamen de Nuevas Voces de Sevilla (2019), the 1st Prize of the International Contest Un Futuro DEARTE (2016), the Special Prize of the Jury at the IV. Valleseco Zarzuela Competition (2016) and the 2nd Prize of the María Orán Contest (2015).

Tania Lorenzo is a regular guest at the International Bach Festival on the Canary Islands. With members of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and the Concertgebouw-Orchestra she performed works such as Pegolesi’s “Stabat Mater”, and Bach’s “Magnificat”. She sang Pergolesi’s “Magnificat” and the world premiere of José Brit’s “Requiem”, Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas No. 5, which she also sang at the Semperoper Dresden with the cellist of the Dresden Staatskapelle. At the Varna International Summer Music Festival she could be heard with Bach’s Cantata nº 199 and Songs by Piazolla.

Tania performs with such renowned conductors as Marcela Garrón, Pierangelo Pelucchi, Zdzislaw Tytlak, Asher Fish, Alejo Pérez, Miquel Ortega, Felix Krieger, Omer Meir Wellber, Paul Agnew, Danielle Callegari, Antonio Fogliani and directors such as Rolando Villazón, Isabel Hindersin, Peter Konwitschny, Uwe Laufenberg, Achim Freyer, David Mättheus Zurbuchen, Calixto Bieito, Tom Quaas and Alfonso Romero.

Moreover, engagements brought her to the Robert Schumann-Haus Zwickau, the Teatro Cuyás, the Otoño Musical Soriano, the Daegu Opera House, the Musikgebouw Amsterdam, the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus Barcelona, the Bad Elster Theatre, the Gabinete Literario, the Teatro Pérez Galdós, the Auditorio Adán Martín and the Schinkenhalle Potsdam.

The artist portrayed GIRL in “Trouble in Tahiti” at the Opera de Las Palmas Gran Canaria and NELLA in “Gianni Schicchi”. Here,the only 28 year old Spanish also made her successful debut as GIANETTA in “L’elisire d’amore”.

 

 
 
 
REVIEWS
 
Luzerner Theater – Hänsel und Gretel - GRETEL
The Spanish soprano completes the duo with wonderful freshness and impressive reserves up to the highest registers. Moreover, the petite Lorenzo has the habitus that has already earned her accolades in this role in tge Lucerne Theatre’s "Rosenkavalier" and "Revues des Folies": With her effervescence, her facial expressions, her acting, she leaves young roles truly "young". A rarity in such demanding roles.
Anzeiger Luzern
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Tania Lorenzo Castro's bright soprano voice is refreshing, and she always has a broad smile on her face. The way she sings and plays Gretel as a cheerful girl who loves to dance is simply captivating [...] How well the two ensemble members know each other by now is also shown by their informal, spontaneous acting as siblings.
seniorweb
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The joyfully bubbly Gretel (Tania Lorenzo Castro). They all fill the role with vigor and spirit.
Luzerner Zeitung
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Luzerner Theater – Dido & Aeneas - BELINDA
Tania Lorenzo Castro shines perky and agile in the role of the comforter Belinda.
Luzerner Zeitung
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Tania Lorenzo Castro gives Dido's confidante Belinda with a youthfully fresh, spacious soprano.
Online Merker
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Luzerner Theater - Revue des Folies – Doktor Ox- LOTSCHE
Tania Lorenzo Castro as "Lotsche", the discovery in this season's LT ensemble, acts on the same level.
Anzeiger Luzern
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Tania Lorenzo Castro as Lotsche in an unbelievable liveliness of voice and movement.
Avenue Argusdatainsights
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Internationales Bachfestival Las Palmas – THEODORA
The cast of international singers was very well chosen. The great canary Tania Lorenzo was in charge of the title role. A lyric-light soprano of pleasing color, homogeneous throughout her tessitura, even in the uncomfortable basses that Händel assigns her, she sang with cleanliness, expressiveness and deliberate phrasing. With restrained ornamentation, she was an exemplary Theodora.
Ritmo
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Tania Lorenzo Castro, very committed, enjoyed and made us enjoy. With the score practically from memory (something unusual in oratorios interpreted by singers with a thick professional agenda such as hers), the soprano from Gran Canaria dramatized the text and the music in this version, which had no staging, and her large and liquid voice in the mids and treble was well calibrated in technique and style, which showed great knowledge of the baroque style. The prominence of this role, which gives its name to the work, was at the height of its interpretation.
Opera World
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Luzerner Theater – Alcina - MORGANA
A special treat: Tania Lorenzo Castro in the role of Morgana. Circus-ready, she hangs from the hoop - head down, at the same time singing her lines with a clear voice.
Luzerner Zeitung
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First class also Tania Lorenzo Castro, who convincingly portrayed the character of Alcina's sister Morgana with her voice and charm.
Innerschweiz Online
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Luzerner Theater – Der Rosenkavalier - SOPHIE
Tania Lorenzo Castro gives Faninal's daughter Sophie with a clear, youthfully fresh soprano and her stage presence stands out from the rest of the ensemble.
Peter Hagemann
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Tania Lorenzo sings and plays this part stunningly: witty, cheeky, clear as a bell in her intonation, and yet also delicately strung.
seniorweb
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However, with the wonderfully homogeneous female trio of Eyrún Unnarsdótir, Solenn' Lavanant Linke and Tanio Lorenzo Castro at her side, she has a credible, stunningly youthful singer-actresses from her own ensemble at her disposal that would do credit to any state opera. Which is a sensation because all 3 have their role debut here, after already having inspired in 2021 on stage as Countess, Cherubino and Susanna in Mozart’s “Figaro”. Merely due these three singers , a trip to Lucerne a trip to Lucerne is worthwhile.
BR Klassik
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Vocally perfect Tania Lorenzo Castro, a self-confident, very young Sophie in shorts and Chelsea boots.
Innerschweiz Online
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Opernhaus Zürich – Platée - AMOUR
Tania Lorenzo Castro, portraying Amour, the god Cupid, sang with a high, silvery soprano. In the second act, she acted as an emcee in a cabaret setting in front of a glittering curtain.
Opera Wire
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ON STAGE
Luzerner Theater – Der Rosenkavalier – SOPHIE
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Luzerner Theater – Dido und Aeneas – BELINDA
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Luzerner Theater – Hänsel und Gretel – GRETEL
© Ingo Höhn