Biography
Soprano Mariana Flores studied at the National University of Cuyo in Argentina and at the Schola Cantorum Basliliensis. A passionate interpreter of the Baroque repertoire, she has collaborated with artists such as Christina Pluhar, Teodor Currentzis, John Eliot Gardiner and Leonardo García-Alarcón.
She performs on the greatest international stages (Opéra de Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra Royal de Versailles, etc.) in major opera productions, as well as in large-scale concerts and recitals. She sings regularly with the ensemble Cappella Mediterranea, with whom she has the opportunity to blend baroque music with traditional Argentine repertoire.
She has made a number of award-winning recordings, including d'India's ‘Lamenti & Sospiri’ in 2021, Monteverdi's ‘L'Orfeo’ and in 2022 the release of Scarlatti's La Finta pazza before the resumption of a European tour of this opera, in which she triumphed in the title role in 2019. In 2023 Alfonsina, a highly personal album of Argentinian folk songs that she recorded with Quito Gato, a repertoire that has been on concert tour ever since.
More recently she has been featured in Amore Siciliano, an emblematic programme by Cappella Mediterranea released by Alpha which will continue to be broadcast in 2025, or the Handel's Dixit dominus , and the Colonna's Mass in E minor on the Ricercar label.
In 2024, Mariana Flores returned to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence as Amore and Minerva in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria directed by Pierre Audi, before taking part in Seasons, a Fabrice Murgia's audacious creation at the Cité Bleue, combining film, theatre and song, in which she performs both Baroque and contemporary pop music.
In November and December, she sang the Bach's Mass in E minor in an international tour of Canada and Brazil, which she will reprise in summer 2025 at the prestigious Verbier Festival.
Mariana Flores' artistic season in 2025 will be rich and very international with the revival of the musical theatre creation Amour à Mort directed by Jean-Yves Ruf at the Opéra national de Lorraine, Monteverdi's L’Incoronazione di Poppea in concert in Germany, Canada and New York, Cavalli's Pompeo Magno premiered at the Bayreuth Festival and then toured, the Mozart's Requiem at the Radio France Auditorium, and numerous recitals throughout Europe.
Together with lute-player and guitarist Mónica Pustilnik, she is preparing the recording of ’ Muse e Sirene ‘a programme focusing on women composers of the 17th century.e siècle.
