Born in Castilléjar, Granada, María José Moreno studied at the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid.

Her successes in Spain allowed her to make an international leap, performing at such important venues as La Scala in Milan (playing Gilda in Rigoletto) and the Vienna State Opera (as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville).

She won a Grammy Award for the recording of the opera Falstaff with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis in 2006.

[4][5] María José Moreno is a bel canto specialist, with a predilection for Rossini and Donizetti, but also Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

She is married to Massimo Spadano [es], an Italian violinist and conductor who since 1994 has been the concertmaster of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (OSG) of A Coruña.