Winner of the 1st Prize, the Hideo Saito Award and the Asahi Award at the 17th Tokyo Winner of the 1st Prize, the Hideo Saito Award and the Asahi Award at the 17th Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting, Diego Martín-Etxebarria outstands also for his deeply connection with the operatic repertoire that brought him to the Berliner Staatsoper, Berliner Volksbühne, Theater Mönchengladbach, Theater Krefeld, Teatro Real, Theater Augsburg, Teatro Arriaga or the Neuköllner Oper, where he conducted Verdi's "Nabucco", Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana", Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel", Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" and "La Bohème", Menotti's "The Consul", Donizetti's "Rita", "L'elisir d'amore", "Don Pasquale", Bizet's "Carmen", Adès' "Powder her face", Dittrich's "Die Blinde", Kálmán's "Die Faschingsfee"... He guest conducted the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, "Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic, Osaka Symphony, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, Orquesta Sinfónica De Bilbao, Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi, Orquestra Sinfónica De Galicia, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orquesta Sinfonica De Tenerife, Orquesta Ciudad De Granada, Orquesta Filarmònica de Màlaga, Orquestra Simfònica Del Vallès and the Orquestra Camera Musicae. He has recorded Marc Timón's Intimitats, Enric Morera's La Viola d'Or i Altres Cançons and Joaquim Serra's Tempesta Esvaïda (Comèdia Lírica en Tres Actes).