Ainhoa Arteta

Born in Tolosa -Guipúzcoa-, Ainhoa Arteta won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions competition in New York and the Concours International de Voix d'Opéra Plácido Domingo in Paris.

Her opera debut took place in the United States in 1990. From then on, her international career developed at theatres such as the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the Covent Garden in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Amsterdam Opera, the Bonn Opera, the Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Washington Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Arena di Verona and many others.

Two big milestones in her career were her performance with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, and her debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York, with Dolora Zajick and Plácido Domingo, with whom she collaborated in concerts in Spain, the United States, Brazil, Lebanon, France, Turkey, Great Britain, Germany and Austria.

Her most famous performances include her participation in the opera Faust at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Münchner Opern-Festspiele, with Rolando Villazón, under the conduction of Friedrich Haider, at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga and the Palau de la Música in Valencia; La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Detroit, Washington, Cincinnati, Amsterdam, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Peralada Festival, Graz and the Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, San Francisco, the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas, the Teatro Villamarta in Jerez, the Amsterdam Opera, the Arena di Verona and the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, conducted by Daniel Oren; Liù in Turandot during the Bilbao Opera Season [ABAO]; Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, also with Rolando Villazón, the Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas and the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga; Les pêcheurs de perles at the Seattle Opera, Bordeaux, the Riga Opera and the Bilbao Opera; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Magda in La rondine at the Washington Opera and the Bonn Opera; Micaëla in Carmen with the Scottish Opera; Olga in Fedora at the Metropolitan Opera, with Plácido Domingo and Mirella Freni, and F. Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Metropolitan under the baton of James Levine.

She has recorded Doña Francisquita for Sony, a zarzuela record for RTVE Música, with the Orquesta de Radiotelevisión Española, a Renaissance music record for Helicon, Ainhoa Arteta - Recital for the record label Ensayo, the operas Roméo et Juliette -Juliette- and Turandot -Liù- live for RTVE Música, and J.C. de Arriaga's cantata Herminie with the Cadaqués Orchestra, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, for Tritó.

Her intense concert activity includes her recital at the White House, her debut at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in London and the concert in Baalbeck -Lebanon-, both with Plácido Domingo, the Memorial Concert celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, with Ramón Vargas, her performance of concerto arias by W.A. Mozart at the Palau de la Música in Valencia, with the Orquesta de Valencia, under the conduction of Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, R. Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder with the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife, conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, and her performance of Arriaga's Herminie at the season closing concert of the Symphony Orchestra of Bilbao and at the San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, with the Cadaqués Orchestra conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.

In the past ten years, she has received numerous awards, such as the Hispanic Society of America Award for her contribution to the arts; ‘Best Classical Music Artist Award' in the 5th Edition of the Music Awards; ‘ONDAS Awards' for the most outstanding work in Classical Music; ‘Federico Romero Award' from the Autor Foundation for her international career; Gold Medal from the Palau de la Música in Valencia; Honorary President of the Maestro Segovia Association; member of the Board of Trustees of the Winterthur Foundation; Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz; Universal Basque Citizen; Patron of the Fundació Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música; artist-in-residence with the Cadaqués Orchestra and Golden Microphone Award from the Spanish Federation of Radio and Television Associations, for her exceptional career as a universal figure of Spanish lyric music.