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Born: Fitero, Navarra

Maria Bayo is a Spanish soprano who established her career in the 1990s and quickly made a transition from being a young light soprano to being (in her own words) a "lyric soprano with coloratura facility."

She has been singing and dancing for as long as she can remember. She had her first singing lessons with the nuns of the Cistercian abbey in the small town of Fitero, her birthplace. She sang in her church as part of a group with Read more guitars and in a choral ensemble in Cintruenigo. She studied at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatoire of Pamplona with Edure Aguerri, then at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, where her teacher was Arthur Janzen.

She entered Spanish competitions in Logrono, the Julian Gayarre competition of Pamplona, and the Viñas Competition of Barcelona, and, in Italy, the Maria Callas Competition of Naples. In 1988, she won eleven prizes in the Belvedere Competition in Vienna, including the First Prize. In 1991, she won the First Prize in the Spanish Radio Classical Music Awards by unanimous vote of the judges.

She made her debut as a professional singer while in Germany, then sang The Pearl Fishers in Pisa, Italy, and La Sonnambula in St. Gallen. In the spring of 1990, she debuted in Madrid as Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro to unanimous critical acclaim and wide public favor. She has also sung the role at Marsella, Montpellier, the Opéra-Bastille in Paris, and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Other of her early roles included Almirena in Handel's Rinaldo, which she sang in Lisbon, Madrid, and Reggio Emelia; and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen at Monte Carlo, Madrid, and Bologna, and she frequently sings Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Antonio in The Tales of Hoffmann, and Lauretta in Gianni Schichi.

Spanish soprano Teresa Berganza is a mentor to Bayo; the two have sung on the same stage in Rinaldo and in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. It was at Berganza's suggestion that Bayo made an unusual decision to sing Rosina in The Barber of Seville in the original lower key. Bayo has sung this part widely, including Marseilles, Montpellier, and Strasbourg. Also at Berganza's suggestion, Bayo made the unusual decision to sing the part of Fiordiligi (usually considered the lower role) rather than Despina in Così fan tutte.

She has also sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, and La Monnaie in Brussels. At the last-named house, she received a rapturous reception for her performance in the title role of Cavalli's La Calisto, and returned there for a remarkable portrayal of Mélisande in Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande with stage direction by Herbert Wernicke which took the unusual view that Mélisande, beginning in the usual passive manner, progressively becomes mad in the course of the opera.

On the concert stage, she has sung Mahler's Second Symphony in London under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli, and the Stabat Mater of Rossini at the Schwetzingen Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the International Religious Week in Cuenca, Spain.

She sings Lieder recitals, but not with great frequency. (She is particularly fond of Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs.) She has a few contemporary works to her credit, but so far has mainly remained in the Baroque through Romantic eras. She is also highly regarded in Spain as a zarzuela singer. As of the end of the twentieth century, she began to branch out into German operatic repertoire, accepting engagements to sing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Read less

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Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Florez, Bayo, Gelmetti, Et Al

Release Date: 11/15/2005 Label: Decca
Catalog: 000529509

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Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Gelmetti, Bayo, Florez [Blu-ray]

Release Date: 11/18/2008 Label: Decca
Catalog: 001217359

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Chueca: La Gran Via, El Bateo / Simo, Perez, Bayo, Lanza

Label: Deutsche Grammophon Catalog: 4763059 Release Date: 10/09/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Federico Chueca
Performer: José Julián Frontal, Maria Bayo, Emilio Sanchez, Enric Martínez-Castignani ...
Conductor: Victor Pablo Pérez
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tenerife Chamber Chorus, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
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Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore / Villazon, Bayo

Label: Virgin Classics Catalog: 67277 Release Date: 04/06/2010 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Performer: Cristina Obregón, Jean-Luc Chaignaud, Rolando Villazón, Maria Bayo ...
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gran Teatre Del Liceu
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Rossini: Il Viaggio A Reims / Rasmussen, Cantarero

Label: Arthaus Musik Catalog: 107135 Release Date: 03/30/2010 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Performer: Enzo Dara, Nicola Ulivieri, Simón Orfila, Kenneth Tarver ...
Conductor: Jesús Lopez-Cobos
Orchestra/Ensemble: Barcelona Teatro Liceu Orchestra, Barcelona Teatro Liceu Chorus

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Mozart: Don Giovanni / Alvarez, Perez [Blu-ray]

Label: Opus Arte Catalog: 7051 Release Date: 02/23/2010 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Alfred Reiter, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi, José Bros ...
Conductor: Victor Pablo Pérez
Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra, Madrid Teatro Real Chorus

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Zarzuelas (Highlights) / Domingo, Bayo, Kraus

Label: Naive Catalog: 5213 Release Date: 01/26/2010 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Amadeo Vives, Tomás Bretón, Emilio Arrieta
Performer: Alfredo Kraus, Maria Bayo, Luis Lima, Placido Domingo ...
Conductor: Antoni Ros Marbà, Victor Pablo Pérez
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Madrid Symphony Orchestra

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Les Musiques De Picasso / Rafael Orozco, Alfred Cortot, Et Al

Label: Naive Catalog: 5162 Release Date: 07/28/2009 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Morente, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla ...
Performer: Rafael Orozco, Enrique Morente, Antionia Carbonell, Montoyita ...
Conductor: Edmon Colomer, Stefan Sanderling, Charles Munch, Jérôme Kaltenbach ...

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Spanish Classics - Palomo: My Secluded Garden

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8572139 Release Date: 06/30/2009 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Lorenzo Palomo
Performer: Pepe Romero, Maria Bayo
Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Orchestra/Ensemble: Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra, Romero Guitar Quartet
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Esprit - Baroque

Label: Naive Catalog: 5168 Release Date: 05/26/2009 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Georg Philipp Telemann ...
Performer: Sébastien Marq, Sandrine Piau, Gérard Lesne, Philippe Jaroussky ...
Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini, Martin Gester, Fabio Biondi, Christophe Rousset ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique, Les Talens Lyriques, Ensemble Matheus ...

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Esprit - Iberique

Label: Naive Catalog: 5173 Release Date: 05/26/2009 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Manuel de Falla, Pedro Bacan, Enrique Granados, Isaac Albeniz ...
Performer: Ines Bacan, Pedro Bacan, Isabelle Moretti, Rafael Orozco ...
Conductor: Edmon Colomer, Victor Pablo Pérez, Antoni Ros Marbà
Orchestra/Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra

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Handel: Rodrigo / Banzo, Bayo, Al Ayre Espanol

Label: Naive Catalog: 132 Release Date: 04/28/2009 Number of Discs: 3
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Eduardo Lopez Banzo, Max Emanuel Cencic, Kobie van Rensburg, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir ...
Conductor: Eduardo Lopez Banzo
Orchestra/Ensemble: Al Ayre Español
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Caro Amor

Label: Sony Catalog: 746075 Release Date: 02/27/2009 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Laurence Cummings, Vesselina Kasarova, Lawrence Zazzo ...
Conductor: Alan Curtis, Harry Bicket, Paul Goodwin, Mark Stephenson ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Il Complesso Barocco, London Musici Chamber Choir, Hanover Band

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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci / Lopez-Cobos, Madrid Teatro Real [Blu-ray]

Label: Opus Arte Catalog: 7018 Release Date: 02/24/2009 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performer: Marco Di Felice, Vincenzo La Scola, Violeta Urmana, Dragana Jugovic ...
Conductor: Jesús Lopez-Cobos
Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra, Madrid Teatro Real Chorus
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Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Gelmetti, Bayo, Florez [Blu-ray]

Label: Decca Catalog: 001217359 Release Date: 11/18/2008
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Performer: Pietro Spagnoli, Maria Bayo, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno Praticò ...
Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti
Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus, Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

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Farinelli, Il Castrato - Broschi, Handel, Porpora, Etc / Rousset, Malas-godlewska, Ragin, Et Al

Label: Naive Catalog: 5150 Release Date: 10/28/2008 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Niccolò Jommelli, Vicente Martin y Soler ...
Performer: Christophe Rousset, Ewa Malas-Godlewska, Maria Bayo, Carlo Lepore ...
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques

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Arias De Zarzuela Barroca

Label: Naive Catalog: 8920 Release Date: 05/27/2008 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: José Nebra, Vicente Martin y Soler, Antonio R. De Hita, Luigi Boccherini
Performer: Maria Bayo
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques
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Palomo: Cantos Del Alma, Sinfonia A Granada

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8570420 Release Date: 04/29/2008 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Lorenzo Palomo
Performer: Maria Bayo, José Luis Estellés, Luis Garcia Montero, Vicente Coves
Conductor: Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Orchestra/Ensemble: Granada City Orchestra
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Zarzuelas - Arrieta, Bretón, Vives

Label: Naive Catalog: 5120 Release Date: 01/29/2008 Number of Discs: 6
Composer: Amadeo Vives, Tomás Bretón, Emilio Arrieta
Performer: Mercedes Aleman Herrera, Santiago S. Jerico, Emilio Sanchez, Raquel Pierotti ...
Conductor: Antoni Ros Marbà, Victor Pablo Pérez

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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci / Urmana, La Scola

Label: Opus Arte Catalog: 983 Release Date: 11/20/2007 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performer: Dragana Jugovic, Violeta Urmana, Vincenzo La Scola, Viorica Cortez ...
Conductor: Jesús Lopez-Cobos
Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus, Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra
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Handel: Opera Arias And Cantatas / Sempé, Bayo, Et Al

Label: Naive Catalog: 8914 Release Date: 08/28/2007 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Maria Bayo
Conductor: Skip Sempé
Orchestra/Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante
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María Bayo Album - Handel, Mozart, Martín Y Soler, Etc

Label: Naive Catalog: 8907 Release Date: 03/27/2007 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: George Frideric Handel, Vicente Martin y Soler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini ...
Performer: Maria Bayo
Conductor: Skip Sempé
Orchestra/Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante

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Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann / Machado, Bayo

Label: Opus Arte Catalog: 968 Release Date: 03/27/2007 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Performer: Christophe Fel, Konstantin Gorny, Aquiles Machado, Maria Bayo ...
Conductor: Alain Guingal
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bilbao Opera Chorus, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra

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Nebra: Arias De Zarzuelas / Bayo, Banzo, Al Ayre Español

Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog: 987069 Release Date: 01/16/2007 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: José Nebra, Luigi Boccherini
Performer: Maria Bayo
Conductor: Eduardo Lopez Banzo
Orchestra/Ensemble: Al Ayre Español
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Spanish Music Collection / Various

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8502504 Release Date: 11/15/2006 Number of Discs: 25
Composer: Joaquin Turina, Joaquim Serra, Joaquin Rodrigo, Lorenzo Martinez Palomo ...
Performer: Emili Brugalla, Artur Pizarro, Daniel Ligorio Ferrandiz, Ricardo Gallén ...
Conductor: Max Bragado-Darman, Salvador Brotons, Maximiano Valdes, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Castille and Leon Symphony Orchestra, Valles Symphony Orchestra, Principality of Asturias Symphonic Orchestra ...
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Cavalli: La Calisto / Bayo, Jacobs

Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog: 9909001 Release Date: 11/14/2006 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Pier Francesco Cavalli
Performer: Marcello Lippi, Dominique Visse, Graham Pushee, Barry Banks ...
Conductor: René Jacobs
Orchestra/Ensemble: Concerto Vocale

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Mozart: Don Giovanni / Alvarez, Reiter, Bayo

Label: Opus Arte Catalog: 958 Release Date: 10/31/2006 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Sonia Ganassi, José Bros, Maria Bayo, Carlos Alvarez ...
Conductor: Victor Pablo Pérez
Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus, Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

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