Composer Marisa Manchado and soprano Yolanda Auyanet won the 2024 National Music Awards, corresponding to the Composition and Interpretation categories respectively. These recognitions, granted annually by the Ministry of Culture through the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), are endowed with 30,000 euros.
The jury awarded the prize to Marisa Manchado for her opera The Regenta 2023 production by Teatro Real and Teatro Español, “an updated reading of a classic of universal literature, through which she gives voice to an emblematic female character, which underlines the composer’s long commitment to ‘equality’. With this work, underlines the judgment, “he contributed to the expansion of Spanish musical heritage, highlighting the integration of innovative and hybrid styles.”
The Regent Thus, according to the jury, he joins “a corpus of more than 150 works, including vocal music, chamber music, symphonic music and other genres, a career in which the search for new formats and languages has always been present, and in which “research and interaction between different artistic and academic disciplines have prevailed, in addition to a constant educational commitment”.
For its part, the committee rewarded Yolanda Auyanet “for her acclaimed debut in the role of Tosca at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville in 2023, with which she extended a three-decade career marked by the most demanding female roles. Gilda or Violeta, to the bel canto artists Norma, Lucia de Lammermoor, Isabel I of Roberto de Devereux or Lucrezia Borgia, and where he demonstrated his enormous virtuosity and his capacity for interpretation. He also highlighted that “the quality of his technique and his stage charisma won over the audiences of the main national and international theaters.”
He also highlighted that “the quality of his technique and his stage charisma allowed him to conquer the audiences of the main national and international theaters during a career in which he also defended the zarzuela repertoire with titles such as Bread and bulls, The saffron rose either The barber of Lavapiés“.
