María Castillo de Lima

Born in São Paulo, Brazil and studied at the Conservatorio de Música Gilardo Gilardi of La Plata in Argentina. She was a member of the Ópera Estudio and the Coro of the Teatro Argentino de la Plata. She has performed principal roles in Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Norma, Il trovatore, Tosca, Nabucco, Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier. She sang in Madama Butterfly in 2014 at Teatro Colón. She participated in the 15th Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition in 2015 in Zaragoza, Spain, and won the second prize in the 1st International Singing Competition of Ópera Mendoza, in 2019. Also in 2019, she was distinguished as Outstanding Personality of Culture by the Concejo Deliberante of La Plata. Among other venues, she sang at the Teatro Colón in Mar del Plata, the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, the Teatro Avenida and the Teatro El Circulo de Rosario. She teaches in the department of Lyrical Chamber Music Repertoire at the Conservatorio de Música Gilardo Gilardi and in the Escuela de Arte of Berisso. She is the founder and director of the Masciadro Cultural Centre.