Manuel Fuentes

Manuel Fuentes was born in 1996 in Crevillent, Alicante (Spain). He studied voice, repertoire and music teaching with tenor José Sempere and has expanded his studies in vocal technique with great singers such as Ana María Sanchez, Mariella Devia, Dolora Zajick, Sonia Ganassi, Carlos Álvarez and Ruggero Raimondi.

This season: Aida at the Opera de Oviedo, Rigoletto and Aida at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, L'heure Espagnole / Gianni Schicchi at the Palau de Les Arts and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest and I Lombardi alla prima crociata at the Teatro Real and Nabucco at the Cap Rocat Festival.

In his artistic history, his successes in several international competitions are worth highlighting. He was proclaimed champion three times in the Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition, winning the First Prize, the Audience Award and the Award for Best Spanish Singer in 2019.
The following year he obtained three awards in the Viñas International Tenor Singing Competition, including the Plácido Domingo Award for Best Spanish Singer, the Castell de Peralada Festival Award and the Fundació Ferrer-Salat Award. He was also the winner of two awards in the first edition of the Alicante International Lyric Competition.

The Castell de Peralada Festival named him Young Artist of the EFA (European Festivals Association) with whom he had the pleasure of performing in a solo recital in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in February 2022.

In 2020 he made his debut at the Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid) with the role of Maestro in the zarzuela “Farinelli” by Tomás Bretón.