Miren
Urbieta-Vega Singer

Miren Urbieta Vega was born in San Sebastián, Spain, where she studied clarinet, music education and singing. She received further training at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia. In 2014, she was awarded the title of Best Spanish Singer at the Concurso de Canto Francesc Viñas and in 2015 she was named Best Young Singer by Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor. Her repertoire includes roles such as Mimì ‹La bohème›, Elsa ‹Lohengrin›, Liù ‹Turandot›, Contessa ‹Le Nozze di Figaro›, Donna Elvira and Zerlina ‹Don Giovanni›, Vitelia ‹La Clemenza di Tito›, Micaëla ‹Carmen›, Marguerite ‹Faust›, Adina ‹L'elisir d'amore›, Arminda ‹La finta giardiniera› and Inès ‹La favorite› as well as numerous zarzuela works such as ‹Katiuska, la mujer rusa›, ‹Los gavilanes› and ‹Benamor›. Engagements have taken her to the most important opera houses in her home country, including Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Ópera de Oviedo, and to conductors such as Evelino Pidó, Corrado Rovaris, Nicola Luisotti, John Mauceri, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Patrick Summers and Guillermo García Calvo. The rediscovery of Usandizaga's opera ‹La llama›, in which she took part in 2015, was accompanied by Deutsche Grammophon. In concert, she sang works by Verdi ‹Requiem›, Beethoven ‹Misa Solemnis›, ‹Ah, perfido!›, 9th Symphony, Dvořák ‹Stabat Mater›, Strauss ‹Vier letzte Lieder› and Mahler 2nd, 4th and 8th Symphonies, among others. In 2018, she recorded the CD ‹Ametsetan› with Basque songs with pianist Rubén Fernández Aguirre as a sign of her connection to her homeland.She is making her debut at Theater Basel in the title role of Puccini's ‹Turandot›.