Spinto lyric soprano, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated as a singer from the Teatro Colón in the same city and made her debut in 1977 at the Teatro Avenida in the Argentine capital.

During her artistic career, she has played the leading roles in operas and zarzuelas such as El Trovador, Celos aun del aire matan, La Rondine, La Fiamma, La Flauta Mágica, La Boheme, La Traviata, Jeanne d’Arc, La Dama de Pique, El Zar de Zaltán, Las Campanas, Cosi Fan Tutte, Otello, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, Luisa Fernanda and Doña Francisquita among many other roles. In 1986 and 1987, she was invited by the tenor Luigi Alva to take part in the Lima International Season, alternating with him in the work “El Murciélago”.

She has sung in the most important theaters in the world, including the Teatro Avenida, Teatro Colón and Teatro San Martín de Tucumán in Argentina, Teatro Nacional de Milán in Italy, Teatro Solís de Montevideo in Uruguay, Teatro Mélico Salazar in the city of San José in Costa Rica, Teatro Metropolitano de Medellín in Colombia, among many others. She was invited by the tenor Plácido Domingo to appear at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York; In addition, concerted by the Caracas Opera, it received the approval of the critics and television of the neighboring country.

She is a founding member and Artistic Director of the Prolírica Foundation of Antioquia. She is currently preparing and organizing the project “XXX International Season of Zarzuela, Operetta and Opera City of Medellín 2024”.

Gisela Zivic began her private music lessons at the age of 8 in her hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and two years later she entered the Carlos López Buchardo National Conservatory of Music in the same city to begin her career as a pianist. In 1989, she settled in Medellín, where she continued her music studies at the Conservatory of the University of Antioquia while taking singing lessons with her mother, the Argentine soprano Elisa Brex. Since 1994, she has been part of the ensembles of the International Zarzuela, Operetta and Opera Season of Medellín, organised and performed by the Prolírica Foundation of Antioquia, of which she is a founding partner and director.

On stage she has starred as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimì and Musetta in La Bohème, Sour Angelica, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Micaela in Carmen, Nedda in I Pagliacci and Desdemona in Otello, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro; Valencienne and Anna Glawaris from La Viuda Alegre, Luisa Fernanda, Amapola from La Leyenda del beso, Lota from Corte de faraón, Ascensión from Manojo de rosas and Aurora from La del Soto del Parral, among many others. She has performed on international stages such as the Istanbul State Theatre in Turkey, Melico Salazar Theatre in San José in Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Asturias Theatre in Guatemala, Juarez Theatre in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Fernán Gómez Theatre in Madrid and National Theatre in Bucharest in Romania, among many others.

She was a semi-finalist at the XLII Francesc Viñas International Competition in Barcelona and at the Jaume Aragall Competition in Sabadell, Spain, and participated as a jury member at the IX Maria Callas International Singing Competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil, alongside the great Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva. In May 2012, she sang with the tenor José Carreras in Bogotá, Colombia, in a great lyrical concert performing famous arias and duets under the direction of David Giménez Carreras.

She began her first productions as a Stage Director in 2014 with various musical theater shows in the cities of Medellín and Bogotá. She is currently preparing to participate in the productions of Fondation Prolírica de Antioquia with its XXX International Opera and Zarzuela Season City of Medellín 2024. Gisela is also a Social Communicator – journalist at the Pontifical Bolivarian University.

Mezzo-soprano Sofía Salazar is one of the most internationally recognized Colombian lyrical singers. At the beginning, she won first place in the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition held in Brazil in 1982 and was awarded the “Giuletta Simionato” award for the best mezzo-soprano voice in the “Francisco Viñas International Singing Contest” in Barcelona-Spain in 1984. In 1985 she participated in the famous World Contest of Verdian Voices obtaining second place, positioning her on the international scene.

She has sung with outstanding figures such as Carlo Bergonzi, Leo Nucci, Katia Ricciarelli, Pedro La Virgen, Luis Lima, Alida Ferrarini, Elisa Brex, Carmiña Gallo, Martina Arroyo, Diver Higuita, Juan Pons, Francisco Ortiz, Thomas Hampson, Nicola Martinucci, Giuseppe Giacomini and José Carreras, among many others. He has also sung with the most outstanding symphony orchestras in the country and has been directed by great masters such as Sergio Acevedo, Gustavo Yepes, Cecilia Espinosa, Luis Biava, Alberto Correa, Jaime León, Eduardo Carrizosa and Andrés Orozco among others. Internationally, under the baton of renowned directors such as: Daniel Lipton, Carmen Moral, Mauricio Arena, Nello Santi, Angelo Campori, Hillary Griffits, Dante Ranieri and Miquel Ortega, among others.

She has performed in major national and international stages in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Guatemala, Brazil, USA and Colombia; countries that have enjoyed the art of mezzo-soprano Sofia Salar in the roles of Carmen, Azucena, Ulrica, Dorabella, Princess Boillon, Suzuki, Teresa, Federica and Preciosilla, among many other roles. He has worked with the Colombian Opera, and since 1995 and until today he actively participates in the International Seasons of Zarzuela and Opera performed by the Prolírica Foundation of Antioquia in Medellín.

She is one of the most famous voices and figures in the world of opera. Born on November 19, 1949 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, but naturalized Colombian, she is a lawyer, mezzo-soprano, actress and writer who is very committed to the dissemination of culture and music. She began her training in piano, harmony, music theory and music history at the age of fifteen at the Conservatory of the National College of Colombia. In the early 80’s she moved with her two children. to the United States to continue her training as a singer. In 1982, she made her professional debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington with the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. She has won numerous awards, including the Baltimore Vocal Competition, the American Opera Auditions New York Award and the International Singing Competition in Paris (one of the most important in Europe). These accolades have opened the doors to the most important stages in the world, including the Salzburg Festival, La Bastille and La Fenice.

In 1984 he made his debut at La Scala Theatre in Milan. During her career she has sung outstanding roles in the operatic repertoire, such as: Carmen in Carmen, Rossina in The Barber of Seville, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Delilah in Samson and Delilah, Charlotte in Werther and others. She also took part in the Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo’s concert An Evening with Plácido Domingo. In Colombia, she has performed as a guest soloist with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra. 

She sang with personalities such as: Plácido Domingo, the pianist Pablo Arévalo and many others. From 2004 to 2007 she was Secretary of Culture of Bogotá, Colombia, and until 2013 she was Director of the Cultural Centre of the Library of the EAFIT University in Medellín. In New York, she was Colombia’s cultural delegate to the United Nations. In 2003, she sang the cantata “Pacificando” with humpback whales in the Colombian Pacific together with the scientist Jorge Reynolds, who is known for his whale research.She currently works as a columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo and devotes this time to writing. Her latest book “Más allá del canto” (Tragaluz editores, 2021), in which she summarises his artistic career and paints a portrait of the different facets of the opera world, is available as an audiobook on Spotify.

Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he began his singing studies at the Music High Conservatory, following at the Singing High School in Madrid, later with Carlos Chausson in Barcelona, Vashek Pazdera in New York and with Tenor Daniel Muñoz in Madrid and now under vocal supervision of Alfonso Leoz. 

José Antonio García has sung under the conduction of López Cobos, Leaper, Halfter, Colarusso, Merry, Ramos, Ortega y Pujol, Gómez Martínez, Haidjinikos, Kovatchev, Zedda, Benini, Hogwood, Noseda and Oren, among others…

He made his debut during the 2005 Season, singing in the production of Lohengrin at the Teatro Real in Madrid, he after that participated in the Christmas Concert of RTVE at the National Auditory in Madrid, broadcasted by RTVE National and International Channels. 

José Antonio García has performed the roles of Zuñiga from Carmen in Alicante, Salamanca, Málaga, Arena di Verona; Colline from La Boheme in Madrid; Duca di Verona from Romeo et Juliette at the Teatro Villamarta in Jerez; Pascual from Marina in Córdoba; Leuthold from Guglielmo Tell in A Coruña; Basilio from Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bilbao, Porto Alegre, El Ferrol, A

2 Coruña, Madrid and Río de Janeiro; Ferrando from Il Trovatore in Alicante, Almería, Lieja; Simone from Gianni Schicchi in Madrid; Sparafucile from Rigoletto in Madrid, Ramfis of Aida in Brussels, Brujas, Ooidonk, Namur and Lieja; Padre y Director of Yo, Dalí at the Zarzuela Theatre in Madrid and Liceu de Barcelona; Fafner from Das Rheingold at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, etc.

He has sung at the Teatro Regio di Torino Il Commendatore of Don Giovanni, under the conduction of Cristopher Hogwood. Montecarlo Opera, Jorg from Stiffelio with Maestro Maurizio Benini. Euskalduna, Bilbao, Monterone of Rigoletto, under the conduction of Daniel Oren. Bunka

Kaikan, Tokio, performing Angelotti from Tosca and Tom of Un Ballo in Mascherawith Gianandrea Noseda. Again Angelotti at the Pérez Galdós Theatre in Las Palmas with Fabio Zanetti.

Sandra Lorena is a singing teacher from the University of Antioquia under the tutelage of Detlef Scholz. In her performance as a soloist she has excelled in different opera, oratorio and zarzuela roles which she has successfully interpreted in different halls and cities of her country, such as: Pamina and The Queen of the Night from “The Magic Flute”, Zerlina from “Don Giovanni”, Blonde and Konstance from the opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, Rossina from “The Barber of Seville”, Mussetta from “La Bohéme”, Lauretta from “Gianni Schicchi”, Nedda from “I Pagliacci”, Gilda from “Rigolleto”, Duchess Carolina from “Luisa Fernanda” and Rachel from “The Pharaoh’s Court”, Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, Bach’s “Mass in B minor”, Mozart’s “Requiem”, “Coronation Mass”, “Mass in C minor”, “Israel in Egypt” and “Exultate, Jubilate”, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, and many others.

She has been winner of the Young Performers Competition, Luis Ángel Arango Library (2000), finalist on several occasions in the Festival de Ópera al Parque and winner of the Festival in 2006, where she obtained a scholarship to pursue higher studies in singing at the Liceu in Barcelona (2008-2009), with the teachers Eduard Jiménez and María Soller.

He has worked as a teacher at the Universidad de Antioquia and at the EAFIT University. In the latter institution she obtained the title of “Magister in music” in the line of musical interpretation. In addition to her training in singing, she has complemented her training with different workshops in vocal rehabilitation, singing pedagogy and speech therapy. She will soon take a diploma course in “Neuroeducation” at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.
She has been invited to conduct workshops and master classes in several universities in Colombia, she has also had the satisfaction of accompanying educational processes of strong international projection in which students have won awards, prizes and scholarships to pursue studies in undergraduate and graduate programs in leading schools and universities in Europe and the United States.