María Orán

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María Orán Cury (born May 1, 1943 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife ; † March 10, 2018 ibid) was a Spanish singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

María Orán studied music at the Conservatory of Tenerife and later had piano lessons in Madrid with José Cubiles and singing lessons with Lola Rodríguez de Aragón . From the mid-1980s she established herself as an internationally successful Spanish singer. She has performed with well-known orchestras such as the Japanese Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester de la Suisse Romande , the London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and sang under the direction of well-known conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Michel Plasson , Igor Markevitch , Jesús López Cobos , Helmuth Rilling , Seiji Ozawa , Mario Rossi , Sergiu Comissiona , Mark Gibson , Wladimir Spiwakow , Kent Nagano and others. She took part in important music festivals inside and outside Spain, such as the Gulbekian Festival in Lisbon , the Early Music Festival in Tepotzotlán (Mexico), the Due Mondi Festival in Spoleto , the Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Warsaw Autumn .

Oran was seven years courses at the Music University in Madrid and had thirteen years, a lecturer for singing at the Music Academy in Freiburg held. She was also the Ambassador of the Fine Arts of Tenerife, whose Island Council awarded her the island's gold medal in 1994. King Juan Carlos I awarded her in 1995 with the Officer's Cross of the Orden de Isabel la Católica .

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