Rosa Fernández is a PhD in Musicology at Barcelona University. She holds degrees in History at Oviedo University, Master of European Studies at the University of A Coruña, 2010, and Master in Intelligence and Counterintelligence, University of Madrid in 2016. Member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Madrid and Sant Jordi Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Barcelona, she worked as research fellow at the Autonoma University of Barcelona; was member of the Research Group of the Autonoma University of Barcelona and the National Library, and developed researches in Paris 8, IreMus from Sorbonne and Università degli Studi of Milan. She has published articles and presented at conferences on Spanish opera at University of Valencia, Lisboa, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela and on Contemporary Opera at Barcelona, Brussels, and New York.
Her postdoc project focuses on analyzing the operatic international canon. She has directed different congresses and symposia in Santiago de Compostela (2003–2010). Since 2019 she is a member of the European Society of Aesthetics and since 2021 advisor of the Real Filharmonia de Galicia Orchestra. For the last years she has been applying the Intelligence process at different models of contemporary opera analysis.
