Marta Eguilior is a Spanish stage director, playwright, and multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of opera, musical theatre, and contemporary performance. Her practice is driven by a radical visual intelligence, rigorous formal discipline, and an uncompromising engagement with darkness, desire, power, and the political dimension of the body.

Over more than a decade of sustained creation, Eguilior has developed a distinctive theatrical language in which stage direction, dramaturgy, scenography, and visual rhythm converge into a unified scenic architecture. Her productions are marked by precision, density, and a disturbing beauty, where symbolic imagery and corporeal presence coexist in constant tension.

Her operatic work spans a broad and demanding repertoire, from Baroque to twentieth-century modernism and contemporary creation. She has directed major canonical titles such as Orphée et Eurydice, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni , Così fan tutte, Le dernier sorcier, Il trovatore, Carmen, Medea, and La voix humaine, as well as emblematic twentieth-century works including Schönberg’s Erwartung and Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Approaching the repertoire through a contemporary and critical lens, Eguilior interrogates inherited narratives of violence, gender, desire, and authority embedded within the operatic canon.

Alongside her engagement with the repertoire, Eguilior has built a powerful body of original work as both author and director. Pieces such as Borderland—an opera finalist for the Spanish MAX Awards—and The Death of the Spermatozoa of a One-Metre-Sixty Forensic move fluidly between opera, melodrama, and performance art, exploring liminal zones of identity, mental health, and the body as a site of poetic and political conflict.

Her recent international trajectory includes large-scale productions such as Beatrix Cenci by Ginastera at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Carmen at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, and El año pasado por agua at Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela, consolidating her presence between Europe and Latin America and reinforcing her position within major operatic institutions.

Eguilior’s artistic formation combines formal studies in dramatic arts with extensive international training in opera direction, dramaturgy, butoh, biomechanics, commedia dell’arte, and contemporary performance practices. This hybrid background sustains a practice that continuously negotiates tradition and rupture, discipline and excess.

Awarded the Escala Prize for Best Artistic Design for Carmen and widely regarded as one of the most uncompromising voices in contemporary opera, Marta Eguilior conceives each project as a total scenic device: a theatrical ritual in which image, sound, and body generate an experience that is visceral, unsettling, and profoundly human.