A native of the Basque region of Spain, the soprano Ainhoa Arteta came to international attention when she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Operalia – Plácido Domingo International Competition resulting in engagements with some of the world’s most important theaters. Of her debut of Mimi in La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Times wrote, “Ainhoa Arteta made a promising debut in La Boheme. She took over the role of Mimi with smooth legato and distinctive mix of buoyant lightness and rich, dark timbre…pianissimos registered ravishingly. Ms Arteta also projected an apt vocal and physical vulnerability”.

Notable performances include Mimi and Musetta in “La Boheme”, Violeta in “La Traviata”, Micaela in Carmen and Olga in Fedora (telecast on PBS’ Live from the Met series) at the Metropolitan Opera, Magda in “La Rondine” (telecast on PBS’ Great Performances) at The Washington Opera, Leila in “Les Pecheurs de Perles” in Bordeaux, Bilbao and Seattle, Violetta in Barcelona, San Sebastián, Sevilla (La Maestranza), Micaela at the Scottish Opera, Gilda in “Rigoletto” at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Violeta in ”La Traviata” and Marguerite in “Faust” in Cincinnati, Violetta at the Netherlands Opera, as well as Gilda at the Michigan Opera Theater, Mimi and Marguerite at the Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Carolina in Il Matrimonio Segreto at the Perelada Festival and Countess Almaviva in “Le Nozze di Figaro” with Opera Pacific.

Later on Ms Arteta returned to the Metropolitan for Musetta and as Therese in the long awaited revival of “Les Mamelles des Tiresias”; to the Washigton Opera for Fiordiligi in “Cosi fan tutte”, performed her Musetta at the Opera Bastille in Paris, Juliette in Gounod’s opera in Oviedo, debuted at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as Adina in “L’Elisir d’Amore” and made her operatic debut at the Royal Opera Covent Garden as Musetta, “La Boheme” at the Metropolitan, the Houston Grand Opera, the Dallas Opera Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni” in Palm Beach, Liu in “Turandot” in Bilbao and “La Rondine” in Oviedo.

A critically acclaimed recitalist, Ms Arteta gives dozens of recitals and concerts yearly. Among innumerable concerts, she has performed in Carnegie Hall with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, the Perelada Festival, the Antibes Festival, Graz and Vienna. The soprano has also sung in concert at the White House and has appeared frequently with Plácido Domingo including performances in Berlin, Hamburg, Istambul, Leipzig, Madrid, Paris, Munich, Valencia, Brazil and London.

Ms Arteta can be heard on CD in the title role of Amadeo Vive’s Dona Francisquita, a recital CD of Zarzuela and Spanish songs with the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra, a CD of Music of the Renaissance for Helicón, Ainhoa Arteta - Recital" for Ensayo RBA, and her last CD “Entrañable" for RTVE-Música.
She was invited to sing with tenor Ramón Vargas in a concert on the ocassion of the 70th Anniversary of Palacio de Bellas Artes in México, and in August sang with Plácido Domingo at Baalbeck Festival (Lebanon) with great success.

From her latest season’s performances we can highlight Marguerite in “Faust” at the Bayerische Staatsoper München, with the tenor Rolando Vilazon and conducted by Friedrich Haider her debut as Tatiana Larina in “Eugene Oneguin” in Palau de la Música de Valencia, her debut as Musetta in La Bohème at the Arena di Verona and at the Trieste Theatre, and “The Vier letzte Lieder “ de R. Strauss with the Orchestra of Tenerife.

She has been awarded the “Best classical music artist” at the 5th Spanish Music Awards, she received the ONDAS Prize, the “Federico Romero”, the award by the Autor Foundation for her international career, “Universal Basque” by the Basque Government, Member of the Board of the Winterthur Foundation, Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cadiz, Member of the Board of the Orfeó Catalá-Palau de la Música Foundation Gold Medall of the Palau de la Musica de Valencia and Artist in Residence of the Cadaqués Symphony Orchestra.

During the last year she has had a great success with her debut as “Manon” in Bilbao, and her performance in Valencia of “Faust” (Marguerite), the premier of the work “Dulcinea. Cantata-Fantasía para un caballero enamorado” by composer Lorenzo Palomo in the Deutsche Oper the Berlin, Mozart “Requiem” with Sir Neville Marriner, her debut in the Musikverein in Wien with Mr. Roger Vignoles and Beethoven 9th Symphony with the Orchestra of Tenerife conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez, “La Boheme” in the Metropolitan Opera House and in Las Palmas Opera, as well as her debut as Blanche in “Les Dialogues de Carmelites” in Bilbao. Recently she has offered several recitals with Roger Vignoles and Malcolm Martineau and a Lyric Concert with José Carreras.

Among her future engagements we can highlight a concert tour with Sir Neville Marriner and Cadaques Orchestra, concerts with Synphonic Orchestra of Galicia conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez, tour with Synphonic Orchestra of Euskadi and concerts with National Orchestra of Spain with Vassily Petrenko. She will offer several recitals in Spain, Brusels, Damasco.
Apart from this she will perform in La Coruña “Eugene Oneguin”, Liú de “Turandot” at Gran Teatro del Liceo, “La Bohème” at Metropolitan, Teatro Carlo Felice in Génova and Teatro alla Scala in Milán.