An artist greatly in international demand, Mariana Flores has established herself as one of the most versatile and passionately engaged singers of her generation, as much at ease in Baroque and Mozartian repertoire as in the popular music of Argentina and of Latin America in general. A native of Argentina, she began her studies at the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza, before moving to Basel to study Baroque music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis: today she follows the advice of her teacher Fernando Cordeiro Opa. Mariana has notably taken on the roles of goddesses, witches and heroines in major operatic productions at leading opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe, America and Australia. She recently triumphed at the Opéra Royal in Versailles in the title role of La Finta pazza by Francesco Sacrati, and in Canada with a concert tour of tangos by Astor Piazzolla. She is featured on numerous award-winning recordings, including the 2021 release of d’India’s Lamenti & Sospiri, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Sacrati’s La Finta pazza in 2022.
In 2023, she released Alfonsina, a highly personal album of Argentine folk songs recorded with Quito Gato, a repertoire she has been touring with ever since. More recently, she can be heard in Amore Siciliano, an emblematic Cappella Mediterranea program released by Alpha, which will continue to be distributed in 2025, as well as Handel’s Dixit dominus and Colonna’s Mass in E Minor by Ricercar.
In 2024, Mariana Flores returns to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence to sing Amore and Minerva in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, directed by Pierre Audi, before taking part in Seasons, Fabrice Murgia’s audacious creation at the Cité Bleue, combining cinema, theater and singing, in which she performs both Baroque and contemporary pop music. In November and December, she sings Bach’s Mass in B minor on an international tour of Canada and Brazil, which she will repeat at the prestigious Verbier Festival in summer 2025.
Mariana Flores’ artistic season in 2025 will be rich and international, with the revival of the musical theater creation Amour à Mort directed by Jean-Yves Ruf at the Opéra national de Lorraine, numerous recitals and her roles in Monteverdi’s operas l’Orfeo and l’Incoronazione di Poppea on tour in Germany, Canada and New York, but also in Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno, premiered at the Bayreuth Festival and followed by a very successful tour, and Mozart’s Requiem at the Radio France auditorium. With lutenist and guitarist Mónica Pustilnik, she is preparing the recording of “Muse e Sirene”, a program focusing on 17th-century women composers.