Lina Marcela Sarmiento Tellez

Lina Sarmiento is a Colombian soprano, theatre actress, and illustrator whose work flows between opera, musical theatre, sacred and baroque music, and Latin American folklore. With a Master’s degree from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston and a Bachelor’s from EAFIT University in Medellín, she approaches performance as a space where voice, body, and image converge.

Her stage experience includes roles such as Susana in Le Nozze di Figaro, Raquel in La Corte del Faraón, Coral in La Leyenda del Beso, the Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and LK in Sondheim on Sondheim at Longy. As a soloist, she has sung in works including Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon, Rutter’s Requiem, and Fauré’s Requiem. In 2024, she also worked as stage manager for L’Elisir d’Amore with Florida Opera and Zarzuela in Miami.

Lina Sarmiento is a current member of La Donna Musicale, an ensemble dedicated to baroque repertoire and innovative projects that intertwine early music with Latin American traditions. This year, she also performed in concerts of the Attack on Titan tour with Tim Davis, bringing her voice to an international pop-culture phenomenon.

Her artistic practice now extends into songwriting: her debut single, “Sueño 4”, a contemporary take on the Colombian bambuco, will be released soon, marking the beginning of a new chapter where classical training meets popular expression.

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