Andrea Tortosa Baquero is an opera director based in Munich. Through her creations, she explores themes of fragility, emptiness, memory, and loss revealing how these concepts can be artistically embodied. By giving space to silence and manipulating repetition and duration, she invites audiences to experience time non-linearly, transcending conventional storytelling. Each performance challenges viewers to engage with the complexities of human experience.

Since 2020 she has been collaborating with conductor Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Together they have produced several well acclaimed projects. Tortosa Baquero currently works as an staff director at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She has worked with directors such as Krzysztof Warlikowski, Michael Thalheimer, Calixto Bieito, La Fura dels Baus or the collective Dead Centre as well as for choreographer Christian Spuck in theatres and festivals such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Köln, Semperoper Dresden, Neuköllner Oper, Ruhrtriennale and Kunstfest Weimar. Since 2018, she has been collaborating with Berlin based opera company Novoflot on various projects for the independent scene. 

She has directed La Bohème at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz, the premiere of Lorenzo Troiani's chamber opera Haut at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, The Bear at Kühlhaus Berlin, as well as numerous semi-staged operas such as Fidelio (Kasematte Graz) and The Rape of Lucretia (Kühlhaus Berlin). In addition to these productions Tortosa Baquero has staged concerts such as APPARITION at Harpa Reykjavik, Hotel Tango at Clärchens Ballroom, Solomon at the Berliner Philharmonie and Sleep cycle of an insomniac at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival. 

Tortosa Baquero studied opera direction at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and musicology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the University of Zurich. She has attended master classes with directors such as Barbora Horáková, Michael Thalheimer, Marta Pazos, Nadja Loschky and Tatjana Gürbaca, as well as with choreographer and movement director Mara Kurotschka. Tortosa Baquero was semifinalist of the European Opera-Directing Prize Competition in 2021 and recipient of the Take Heart Research Fellowship in 2022.