Biography:

Lourdes Ambriz Márquez (July 20, 1961 – August 28, 2025) was a Mexican soprano.

Life and career

Ambriz made her debut with the National Opera Company of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) in 1982 with the role of Olympia in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. She performed with a number of the orchestras in Mexico and also sang with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Centre for the Arts Orchestra of Canada, the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela and the German Chamber Academy.[1]

In 1990 she toured Spain with the group of soloists from Mexico directed by Eduardo Mata. In that same year she dubbed the songs from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as the voice of the character Belle.[2]

The following year she made her operatic debut in Europe singing the title role of Marina at the Málaga Opera. In 1992 she toured twelve European countries, in 1993 and 1996 in South America and in 1995 in the United States, with the early music group Ars Nova.[3]

In 1993 she was invited to represent Mexico at the Europalia Festival in Brussels. In 1980 and 1981 she was awarded in the Carlo Morelli Competition and in 1987 she received the National Youth Award and the diploma of the Mexican Union of Theater and Music Chroniclers.

In 2006 she was awarded the Mozart Medal by the Austrian Embassy in Mexico.[4]

In 2010 she sang the role of Eupaforice in the staging of Graun’s opera Montezuma, presented by the Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes Company under the musical direction of Gabriel Garrido and the stage direction of Claudio Valdés Kuri. This production premiered at the Theater Der Welt festival, in Mühlheim, Germany, and had presentations at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, at the Teatro del Canal in Madrid, at the Kampnagel complex in Hamburg, Germany, and at the Cervantino Festival in Mexico.

She premiered the operas Aura by Mario Lavista, Víctor Rasgado’s El coyote y el conejo and Paso del Norte, Dunaxii by Roberto Morales, Malinalli by Manuel Henríquez Romero and The Seventh Seed by Hilda Paredes.[5]

From September 2014 she began to collaborate as deputy artistic director of the INBA’s National Opera Company. From October 2015 to December 2017 she was artistic director of the Ópera de Bellas Artes de México.[6][7]

Ambriz died on August 28, 2025, at the age of 64.[8][9]

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