Born in Rosario, Argentina, Florencia Machado made her operatic debut at the age of 16, performing the role of the Shepherd in Puccini’s Tosca.

She graduated with honors from the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón and the School of Music of the National University of Rosario, earning degrees as Professor and Bachelor of Singing. There, she also studied piano and organ with her father, musician Luis Ángel Machado. She was awarded a scholarship by the Buenos Aires Chamber Music Foundation, where she studied with Maestro Guillermo Opitz, and continued her training with Isabel Penagos, Teresa Berganza, Enza Ferrari, Claudia Pinza, Maurizio Arena, and Diana Soviero. In 2011, she participated in the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, Italy, under the direction of Alberto Zedda.

She won First Prize at the 2012 International Singing Competition of the Teatro Colón, judged by the prestigious panel of Sumi Jo, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Sherrill Milnes. That same year, she received the Special Prize for the New Generation at the Oscar della Lirica 2012 in Torre del Lago, Italy, performing a concert with orchestra alongside Celso Albelo, Dimitra Theodossiou, and Ildar Abdrazakov. The Honorable Senate of Argentina has recognized her achievements and career, and the Argentine Association of Music Critics awarded her the 2012 Stimulus Prize. In 2014, she was honored by the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires as a “Distinguished Cultural Personality.”

She has performed leading roles in major theaters across Latin America and Europe, including the Teatro Colón and Teatro Argentino de La Plata (Argentina); Teatro Municipal de Santiago and Teatro Regional del Biobío (Chile); Teatro Solís and SODRE National Auditorium (Uruguay); Opéra de Lausanne (Switzerland) and the St. Margarethen Festival (Austria), among others.

Her notable roles include Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri, Rossini), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart), Dorabella(Così fan tutte, Mozart), Idamante (Idomeneo, Mozart), Zerlina (Don Giovanni, Mozart), Jane Seymour (Anna Bolena, Donizetti), Adalgisa (Norma, Bellini), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck), Magdalena (Rigoletto, Verdi), Meg Page (Falstaff, Verdi), Charlotte (Werther, Massenet), and Carmen (Carmen, Bizet), a role for which she has received special acclaim.

In the symphonic and sacred repertoire, she has performed Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Rossini, and Dvořák, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Handel’s Messiah, and Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, among others. She has also performed Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra.

Now based in France, she has performed Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under Sascha Goetzel, and was soloist in the premiere of the oratorio Messe pour une Planète Fragile by Guillaume Hazebrouck at the Théâtre Graslin, part of the Angers Nantes Opéra program. Recently, she performed Martín Palmeri’s Misatango, receiving high acclaim for her interpretation.