Serena Sáenz

Biography

The young Spanish soprano Serena Sáenz has established herself within just a few years as one of the most versatile artists of her generation and is praised by the press for her “musicality and radiant high notes” (Scherzo). Since her triple success at the prestigious Operalia Competition 2022 in Riga, she has been a regular guest at leading opera houses worldwide.

In the 2025/26 season, Serena Sáenz makes her staged debut as Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Vienna State Opera, and appears for the first time as Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. With the Bavarian State Opera, she gives her eagerly awaited role debut as Gilda in a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. She also debuts as Susanna in Barrie Kosky’s production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Vienna State Opera. She returns to the Staatsoper Berlin as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos  and to the Gran Teatre del Liceu as Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff. On the concert stage, Sáenz is heard as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid at the Auditorio Nacional, and performs baroque programs with Vespres d’Arnadí in Valencia and Oviedo.