Born in Jerez de la Frontera (Ca diz), she graduated in singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Conservatorio Superior de Mu sica del Liceu with Enriqueta Tarre s. She later perfected her skills with Cynthia Sanner, a teacher at the Juilliard School.

Winner of numerous lyric competitions and scholarships such as the "Rosa Maria Tarruel", the Oton o Lí rico Jerezano, "Mirabent i Magrans", "Germans Pla", "Ciudad de Zamora", "Jaume Aragall", she was awarded the prize Revelation Singer by the critics of the Amics del Liceu for her Lady Macbeth (2006, Sabadell) and Best Female Voice by the Friends of the Teatre Principal de Palma for Nabucco (2016, Palma).

She began her career with the role of Norma at the O pera de Calatun a (2006), and since then she has performed most of the leading roles in the lyrical dramatic repertoire both in Spain and abroad. These include collaborations with the Gran Teatro del Liceo (Ortlinde, Die Walküre, 2014), the O pera de Oviedo (Abigaile, Nabucco, 2015; Bru nnhilde; Siegfried, 2017; Helmwige, Die Walküre, 2015 and Turandot, 2012), the Teatro Sa o Pedro in Brazil (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth), Les Arts under the direction of Davide Livermore and Roberto Abbado (Elena, I Vespri Siciliani, 2016); the Peralada Festival (Cio-cio-san cover, Madama Butterfly, 2017) and the Teatro alla Scala under the musical direction of Valery Gergiev and Pier Giorgio Morandi (Lady Macbeth cover, Macbeth, 2013).

A special relationship links her to the O pera de Catalun a with which she has been collaborating since the beginning of her career and where we highlight her performances of Un ballo in maschera (2007), Suor Angelica (2008), Il Trovatore (2009), Turandot (2015) and Verdi's Otello (2016). In the last seasons she has sung the role of Aida at the Teatro Cervantes in Ma laga and Cio-cio-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Teatro Villamarta in Jerez, made her debut in the role of Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) in Santiago de Compostela and Vigo and has performed the roles of Floria Tosca and Lady Macbeth at the O pera de Sabadell. In the symphonic-choral repertoire she has sung works by Mozart (Requiem; Vesperae Solemne de Confessore), Verdi (Messa da requiem), Pergolesi (Stabat Mater), Mendelssohn (Second Symphony), Benguerel (Requiem to the Memory of Salvador Espriu), Falla, Garcí a Lorca, Turina, Montsalvatge, Ravel, Strauss, Schumann, Weber, Puccini, Wagner and Beethoven, also giving solo recitals in Spain, Germany and France.

Among her recent and upcoming engagements are: Nabucco (Abigaille) at the Teatro de la Maestranza and at the Teatro Real (Anna and Abigaille cover); Turandot at the Teatro Real and at the O pera de Catalunya, where she recently sang Il trovatore; Galla Placidia at the Teatro de la Zarzuela; La casa de Bernarda Alba, a Wagnerian recital at the O pera de Vigo and Verdi's Requiem with the Orquestra Simfo nica del Valle s, among others. Maribel Ortega has participated in numerous radio recordings for Radio Cla sica, Catalunya Radio, TV3 and Xarxa TV, as well as CD recordings for Columna Musica and Harmonia Mundi.