The young Spanish soprano Serena Sáenz has established herself within just a few years as one of the most versatile artists of her generation. Since her triple success in the renowned Operalia competition in 2022 she has performed regularly at leading opera houses worldwide.
In the 2025/26 season her appearances have included Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Vienna State Opera, Adina (L’elisir d’amore) and Nannetta (Falstaff) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, her role debut as Gilda in a new production of Rigoletto at the Bavarian State Opera and Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Berlin State Opera. In concert she has sung in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid under Alondra de la Parra and in Baroque programmes with Vespres d’Arnadí in Valencia and Oviedo.
Past engagements have included her role debut as Marie (La Fille du régiment) at the Munich Opera Festival, the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) and Olympia /Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Vienna State Opera and Mademoiselle Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor) at the Salzburg Mozartwoche.
She appears regularly at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, where she began her career at the age of 13 in the children’s opera Brundibár, and at the Berlin State Opera, where she was a member of the Opera Studio from 2018 to 2020. She has also appeared at La Scala, Milan, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and the Teatro Regio in Turin, and in 2023 made her US debut at the Festival Napa Valley.
As a soloist she has performed with artists such as Plácido Domingo, Elīna Garanča and Rolando Villazón. She gives regular recitals with the guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas. In 2025 she released her debut album BIRDS with EuroArts.
She is a prize-winner of numerous competitions, including the Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserrat Caballé, the Paris Opera Competition and the Tenor Viñas Competition. In 2023 she received the Opera Actual Award and the Opera XXI Award.
Serena Sáenz was born in Barcelona and studied at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. She also trained in ballet and modern dance and qualified as a fitness and nutrition coach.
