VIOLETA SIESTO
The Spanish soprano Violeta Siesto stands out for her versatile coloratura voice and her interpretative sensitivity. Trained in Spain and Germany, she is able to perform a wide repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary creation.
She began her musical studies at the age of five as a flautist and, after obtaining the title of professional studies in this speciality, she continued her musical training as a singer and artist: a path that led her to the study of higher singing education in Madrid and which has culminated in the Master of Opera at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
She began to perform on stage at a very young age, but her consolidation as an artist was with the Orquesta de Extremadura at the Festival Ibérico de Música de Badajoz, in what was her debut as a soloist alongside other renowned artists, and since then she has participated in premieres of newly created works, such as the world premiere of the Spanish opera La selva sin amor or the work I spread in the planetariums of Berlin and Paris, concerts and productions in various festivals such as the Ronda Music Week, Enclave de Abarca, the Iberian Music Festival of Badajoz and Ópera Joven, or operas such as The rape of Lucrecia, in which debuted in the role of Lucia.
She currently lives in Berlin, where she is developing her artistic activity in different parts of Europe.
The Spanish soprano Violeta Siesto She stands out for her interpretative sensitivity, a versatile coloratura voice and a solid international projection. Trained in Spain and Berlin, she develops a wide repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary creation.
She began her musical studies at the age of five as a flautist, entering the Hermanos Berzosa conservatory in Cáceres two years later. In the same year the Escolanía (children choir) of this same centre of which he would be a member until 2010 and where he began to sing on stages all over Spain and France, falling more and more in love with singing. It was in her last year as a member of the Escolanía when, while singing a solo, Violeta was discovered by the school's singing teacher and, after giving her a test, she said a few words that would change the course of her life forever: "you have to be a singer". That teacher left, but in her place came Celia Sánchez del Río, who would become her teacher for six years and who continues to be a reference in her current technical training.
Until 2017, Violeta combined her singing studies with a degree in Biology at the University of Salamanca, obtaining a degree in Biology in 2017 and professional singing studies at the conservatory of Almendralejo Tomás Bote Lavado in 2018, where she studied the last year following Celia, who had moved to that centre.
After studying both degrees, Violeta realised that her true vocation was singing and so she decided to continue with higher singing studies, entering the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid in 2018, where she studied the first year with Miguel Bernal as singing teacher and Elías Romero as repertoire teacher, and the following three years with the singing professor Susana Cordón and having as repetoristas the professors Irene Alfageme, Cristina Alba Padial and Cristina Presmanes. Other teachers who especially contributed to her training as an artist were Raúl Arbeloa (stage interpretation), Isabel Puente (contemporary music repertoire), Aurelio Viribay (Spanish song repertoire), Ignacio Rodríguez (concert and early music), Mar García (complementary piano), Susana Martín (German applied to singing), Alfonso Ferreiro and Carmen Torreblanca (French), Cristina Sánchez and Carmen García (English) and María José Zamora (Italian) and Olga Fernández and Fernando Delgado (history of music), among others.
In 2022 she successfully passed the entrance exams for the Master of Opera at the Berlin University of the Arts and moved to live in the German capital, studying under the tutelage of Professor Carola Höhn and repertorist Sebastian Stoermer.
Other teachers who have contributed to her training are: Norbert Biermann and Nora Füzi (opera role study), Elenora Pertz (repertoire and career coach), Axel Bauni (contemporary music), Eric Schneider (lied repertoire), Sayali Dadas (Russian song repertoire), Thorsten Putscher (Oratorio), Marco Štorman, Isabel Hindersin and Lars Franke (stage performance), Nina Kolazec (speech training), Amélie Saadia (sight-reading), Viatcheslav Kushkov (movement and body awareness) and Viviana Barrios and Christoph Seuferle (audition preparation), among others.
Her artistic career includes his debut as a soloist in 2020 at the Festival Ibérico de Música de Badajoz in the zarzuela show El payaso y la estrella together with the Extremadura Orchestra, conducted by Álvaro Albiach, David Menéndez and Carmen Solís in what was one of the first live shows after the COVID pandemic.
She later made her debut in the role of Filis in the premiere of the Spanish opera La selva sin amor (2021). She has performed solo concerts at music festivals such as the Semana de la Música de la Real Maestranza de Ronda or En Clave de Abarca of the Francis Chapelet Foundation (2022) and has been the voice in audiovisual shows of experimental music in the planetariums of Berlin and Paris with the work I spread (2023 y 2024). In 2024 she debuted the role of Lucia in Berlin in the opera The rape of Lucretia by Britten and among his latest concerts in Spain is her performance as soloist in the Carolina Coronado Theatre with the Romantic Orchestra conducted by Enriq Monfort in the concert La pasión.
After obtaining her Master's degree, she now lives in Berlin, from where she develops her career in different european cities.
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