Spanish opera singer currently based in Florence. Maria is a young, passionate and
versatile artist. Her voice has a powerful rich timbre and she’s focused on the lyric
soprano repertoire.
Maria Vidal is a lyric soprano.
Born in Alicante (Spain), she began her music education at an early age and started her formal singing and piano studies in her teenage years.
She graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2020 with a degree in Musicology; that same year she began her Bachelor's Singing Degree at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid.
She has taken part in many masterclasses and has studied under the guidance of many international singers and répétiteurs, such as Maria Costanza Nocentini, Leonardo de Lisi, Elisabetta Sepe, Patrizia Morandini, Aquiles Machado,
Christopher Robertson, Àngel Òdena or Siphiwe McKenzie.
In the present day she is based in Florence (Italy), where she studies a Master's degree in Opera at the Conservatorio “Luigi Cherubini” while also working as a singer in various concerts, recitals and different kinds of musical events.
Maria has performed in many Spanish and Italian cities as a soloist and as part of choirs.
Her repertoire, being quite diverse, goes from Italian opera to chamber music in different languages, including genres such as Spanish zarzuela.
Over the past few years she has taken part in numerous professional opera productions, performing well-known titles such as La Bohème, La Traviata, Aida, Dido and Aeneas and Carmen; and zarzuelas like Gigantes y Cabezudos, La tabernera del puerto or El Duo de la Africana, among others. She has also participated in the 2023 Macerata Opera Festival as a member of the choir.
Vidal has also played some roles as a soloist as well, bringing to life the main character of Contessa in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Niccolini in Florence, and
Luisa Fernanda in the homonymous zarzuela from F. Moreno Torroba in Madrid.
She has also played supporting roles such as the Second woman in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and
Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica (Puccini).