Composer Marisa Manchado is missing following the deadly Toledo train collision in Spain. 

According to reports, Manchado was on her way to Seville to participate university symposium. at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación.

Manchado is a well-known classical music pianist, composer, and professor who has written several operas and served as the deputy director general of the Music and Dance of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (NAEM).

She is a recipient of the 2024 Premio Nacional de Música in the Composition category for her opera “La Regenta,” which was produced at the Teatro Real in Madrid. She was currently working on her fourth opera, “Medea.”

On Wednesday, two trains crashed south of the Spanish capital Madrid on the high-speed line to Seville with at least 69 people killed and dozens injured in the collision. The accident occurred when a state-operated Renfe high-speed train smashed into the back of a stationary train operated by the Iryo company near the town of Urda. It is one of the worst rail disasters in Europe’s modern history and the worst crash in Spain since 2013.