Daniel Blanco Albert is a composer, researcher, and conductor. His practice is informed by interdisciplinary collaboration, with a special interest in theatre music. In his work, he explores mechanisms of mapping and association that engage with both the specific subject matter of each piece and the creative collaborative environment in which they are created.

Daniel is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Infinite Opera, for which he has created works such as the physics dissemination opera Entanglement! An Entropic Tale, the first opera about beer performed in breweries Besse, or the operatic multimedia experience for planetariums The Flowering Desert, based on the recently discovered exoplanetary system TRAPPIST-1.

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His operatic works have been featured internationally, e.g., at the Luleä Arts and Crafts Biennial (Sweden) with Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing, a protest operatic folk masquerade film denouncing the working conditions in big tech companies, or at the Zamora LittleOpera Festival (Spain) with a chamber opera adaptation of his masquerade La Obisparra, an orchestral work based on the pre-Roman winter traditions surviving in the Aliste region (Spain).

As a composer and conductor, he is also often involved in outreach and engagement programmes, facilitating co-composition projects with diverse communities and collaborating with institutions such as the Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Turtle Key Arts, Stan’s Cafe, Birmingham REP, Birmingham Hippodrome, etc.